David McBride: Australian army whistleblower jailed for leaking documents (www.bbc.com)

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[-] carl_marks_1312@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 months ago

In communist China they jail anyone that is exposing the state of commiting war crimes

[-] welldraught@lemmy.ml -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

But he only exposed some specific soldiers right?(not the state) And why should china be the reference?

[-] StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 4 months ago

Carl marks is being sarcastic. A common anti-communist talking point is saying [communist country] is bad because they jail political dissidents when the west is just as willing

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