npm i -g china-dictatorship
china-dictatorship > README.html

python3 -m pip install --user --upgrade china-dictatorship
china-dictatorship.py > README.html

ERROR    HTTPError: 400 Bad Request from https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/
         The name 'china-dictatorship' isn't allowed. See https://pypi.org/help/#project-name for more information.

import china_dictatorship
assert "Tiananmen Square protests" in china_dictatorship.get_data()

print(china_dictatorship.get_data())

const china_dictatorship = require('china-dictatorship');
if (!china_dictatorship.get_data().includes("Tiannmen Square protests")) throw 0;

console.log(china_dictatorship.get_data());

./your-program --china > README.html
xdg-open README.html

sudo apt install python3-setuptools
python3 -m pip install --user setuptools wheel twine
./push-mirrors

./push

Another source of China-specific mirroring of this project are GitHub proxies, https://linuxpip.org/github-in-china/ contains an overview:

• https://hub.fgit.ml/ this one is quite professional, offering paid access plans for better performance as seen at https://fgit.ml

• https://hub.fastgit.org/ this appears to auto-redirect to GitHub from non-Chinese IPs, but presumably shows the pages for Chinese IPs, e.g. we had hits from http://hub.fastgit.org/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship in 2021-03-25. This happened soon after SEO optimizations mentioned at: Zhao Heming (召赫名) and might be related.

  At #945 for some incomprehensible reason, user https://github.com/StarOnTheSky claiming to be from the fastgit team asked mentions of fastgit to be removed from this repository, menacing to report to How to report a user on GitHub (GitHub上怎么举报用户？) otherwise.

• https://github.com.cnpmjs.org/ as of March 2021, it often reaches an apparently random "Whoa there! You have triggered an abuse detection mechanism.". But other time it succeeds, e.g. some of the times: https://github.com.cnpmjs.org/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship is visible.

• https://a1.mk-proxy.ml/-----https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship generated from http://toolwa.com/github/

• https://github.com/521xueweihan/GitHub520

• https://github-dotcom.gateway.web.tr/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship a Turkish proxy. They have their own censorship issues as well of course.

• https://phoenix.yizimg.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship Not sure origin, https://web.archive.org/web/20200221135123/http://www.yizimg.com:80/ has a little bit of information

• using Cloudflare workers:

  • https://github.independentlyreview.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship described at https://independentlyreview.com/link as using Cloudfare workers

  • https://github.laobiao.workers.dev/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship

  • https://github.rc1844.workers.dev/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship

• https://github-wiki-see.page. Not made for Chinese specifically, but has huge PageRank on Yandex for Chinese search terms. Stated mission is to improve SEO of GitHub which header blocks many search results without an explicit public guideline.

Related: * https://gitmemory.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship appears to be Chinese: https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/iiolp8/what_the_hell_is_gitmemorycom/

Basically Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的) alone (surprise!), with very minor direct contributions from very awesome people due to:

• Chilling effect (寒蝉效应)

• Many people in the West don’t fully appreciate the danger of China 许多西方人没有完全意识到中国的危险

and major contributions from original meme makers all over the world which Ciro merely curates: Anti-CCP information sources (反中共信息来源).

See also:

• https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/graphs/contributors

• https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Aanti-ccp

Related:

• Doesn’t Ciro Santilli have anything better to do than pissing off China? (除了反对中共以外，三西猴有没有别的更好的事儿要作吗？)

• Asymmetric information warfare (不对称信息战)

https://github.com/duty-machine/duty-machine/tree/d6ee9ff8e504b863352f163f7e143e84161ac349 explains that the automatic submission had to be taken down because [wumao] uploaded porn which is against GitHub’s content policy.

Related idiotic attempt on China Dictatorship (中国独裁统治) project: https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/500 where user crazy3523 uploaded some of Ciro’s own existing anti-China images, and tried to pretend to be anti-CCP, and slipped a few child porn softcore in the middle hoping Ciro wouldn’t see them. Their email was <crazy3523@protonmail.com>. They even went as far as creating another apparently anti-CCP post at: #386 previously.

This likely led the repository to be added to GitHub "This repository may contain objectionable content" (此仓库可能包含令人反感的内容).

This highlights the following ideas:

• it is impossible to have uncurated anyonymous content on GitHub

• censorship of non-political issues can seep into censorship of political issues

git clone https://github.com/kon9chunkit/GitHub-Chinese-Top-Charts
./description

• https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/blob/master/赫连禾-21世纪新政宣言.md. Copied from https://matters.news/@halanh/网传70岁赫连禾用大半生研究构建-21世纪新政-引发专家们高度关注-bafyreihnbf6jyzvwyybwl5hym2nikj5zrpwxli6nphzylvdq6btsbydn3y

• #195

On our repo: https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues?q=label%3Asearch-pollution+

Others:

• 2023-10-13 https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/176u3m7/help_needed_something_have_troubled_me_and_other/

• 2023-03-28 https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/124t4gk/how_i_can_always_exclude_a_repository_from_my/ by reddit user yusuftaufiq. Possible hit: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yousuf-taufiq-pe-pmp-0b198212/ Yousuf Taufiq.

• 2022-12-13 https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/41475 "Report Abuse REPO" by https://github.com/dugulingping

• 2022-08-26 https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/30936 "github search provide strange result" by https://github.com/pmakarenko "github search provide strange result"

• 2022-06-18 community/community#18862 by https://github.com/LyLme

• 2022-04-25 community/community#15534 "Report spam" by https://github.com/ryuujo1573.

• 2022-03-14 https://91ai.net/thread-983734-1-1.html 真是遇了狗了搜播放器 搜到个狗 One of the comments suggests that the sponsors are a considerable ammount. Poor newbie, Ciro’s sponsors are 20 dollars/month as of writing in 2022. Related: [ccp-apologists].

• 2022-03-14 https://github.com/community/community/discussions/12800, previously: https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/12800 "Polluted search results" by ThebestkillerTBK

No.

This is not a revenge of any kind.

Ciro knows that he is harming you in the short term, and he doesn’t like that.

But he believes that this harm is a necessary means to reach his real goal, which is to destroy the firewall, and the dictatorship.

Don’t you think it is worth a try? Destroying the firewall, would enormously benefit not only Chinese programmers, but every single other Chinese person too.

Once the firewall is destroyed, which may destroy the dictatorship, he want China to develop the best science and technology in the world, and Would Ciro Santilli like to live in China? (三西猴想住在中国吗？).

And by the way, with his extensive contributions to open source software, Ciro is already helping China, and all underdeveloped countries, to become stronger. His hope is that if poor countries become richer and better educated, that they will be less likely to be influenced by the CCP’s money, and therefore are more likely to be allies of democracy.

See also: Keyword attack profiles disturb me (关键字攻击个人资料页打扰我).

5.1.1.1. Does Ciro Santilli want to make the Chinese people people look bad? (三西猴是想让中国人脸色不好？)

Obviously not, if you even thought about this, it is likely because of: The CCP exaggerates the threat of the West to keep in power (中共夸大了西方要继续掌权的威胁).

Don’t you see that this is just pure and simple politics? And likely ineffective one at that: Will the keyword attacks really help to destroy the firewall? (关键字攻击真的有助于破坏防火墙吗？).

• everyone is brainwashed by their environment: brainwashed

• it is impossible to prove who is right or wrong in politics: [democracy-is-a-religion]

• not even the CCP is evil: Is the Chinese government evil? (中国共产党是邪恶的吗？)

Related:

• [young-pioneers-of-china]

• Little pink explains the difference between the American dream and the Chinese dream

A keyword consists of adding censored words to your username: https://stackoverflow.com/users/895245

This only works on websites that show usernames everywhere.

This then leads to your username appearing on thousands of pages, depending on how much you contribute to the website.

It is also possible to do it with images, although this is less effective in taking down websites since images are harder for the firewall to track automatically. But:

• they are more memorable than words

• they also work on websites like GitHub where your real name does not show on most pages, only slug

so maybe the most effective approach is to use both keywords and images to get the best of both worlds ;-)

This type of attack is essentially an Embargoes make dictatorships stronger (禁运使独裁更强大), and it is especially effective in websites that contain valuable technical content, such as Stack Overflow and GitHub.

See also:

• Photobombing-like attacks.

• 2021-06-03 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/03/free-hong-kong-road-budapest-renames-streets-to-frustrate-chinese-campus-plan "Free Hong Kong Road: Budapest renames streets to frustrate Chinese campus plan"

Some non-screen name ones: * https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6620655, that site is open source BTW, great initiative: https://github.com/Tatoeba/tatoeba2

Some people say don’t shift where you eat. Ciro says: bring a shitbucket to the canteen, and start a shitfight.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cute_cat_theory_of_digital_activism

• https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/可愛貓理論

Someone told Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的) a while after he had started doing his Screen name keyword attack (网名审查关键字攻击) on Stack Overflow, he didn’t know about it before, but it is basically what he was doing.

You can never invent anything new anymore nowadays!

This is especially relevant to GitHub! And GitHub’s mascot is also a cat ;-) Some mentions of this:

• 2020-09-09 https://www.wired.com/story/china-github-free-speech-covid-information/

• 2020-09-09 https://www.xataka.com/servicios/github-inesperado-ultimo-reducto-libertad-expresion-gran-firewall-que-pone-jaque-intereses-china

Related:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_activism

5.1.4.1. Anti-CCP content in the Bitcoin blockchain (在比特币区块链的反中共内容)

5.1.4.2. Collateral Freedom (依附的自由)

5.1.4.3. Protestware

5.1.4.4. Dual-use technology (军民两用技术)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slacktivism

• https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/懒人行动主义

Also related: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-support-the-current-thing

No, that is just a side effect.

For example, if that were the case, he would definitely target more widely used technologies, in particular Web and JavaScript, instead of obscure things like C and assembly in which I have spent tons of my time.

Also, any attempt to influence a billin people is unlikely to have any effect. Much more likely to have any effect, would be for Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的) to become rich and powerful first, and the best way to do that is to invest in whatever he thinks is most useful.

Actually, it can even be argued that Ciro’s somewhat irrational, since he would be much more likely to become rich and powerful by bowing down to the CCP and trying to get their money instead.

On the other hand, becoming rich and powerful is also highly unlikely, so maybe it’s justa matter of taking a low-risk low-reward path?

Ciro has have very little free time, and he will never do something for political reasons, only things that interest me technically.

Finally, do you really think he’d be able to do such awesome projects if he had primarily political considerations in mind? XD

5.2.1.1. Is Ciro Santilli making trivial edits on questions just to spam your name further?

Earliest sources found so far are from Reddit:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/o2qyu5/china_has_a_brand_of_bread_named_stop_interfering/

• https://www.reddit.com/r/chonglangTV/comments/o2l16c/香啊造啊/

English text:

Stop interfering in China’s internal affairs Bread

Chinese text:

中国人不吃这一套
美国没有资格
居高临下同中国说话
巧克力酱面包
保质期10天

Translation:

The Chinese people don’t eat this trick
The United States is not qualified to
Take the high ground and look down on China
Chocolate sauce bread
Best before: 10 days

https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/o2qyu5/china_has_a_brand_of_bread_named_stop_interfering/h2838jz mentions that this was something that came from the 2021 US-China Alaska summit

Here is a different picture of the same product from April 14th: https://twitter.com/YukayuyuWasGod/status/1382218316895244295 That one might allow better brand identification: 万X福 That one also posted at: https://www.reddit.com/r/China_irl/comments/o2zbsw/偶然看到这张图不知道是不是真的/ Watermarked Weibo @第三豹弹

Democracy is even one of the [core-socialist-values]!

There is infinite debate about this out there, some examples:

• https://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2011/05/can-poor-countries-afford-democracy-becker.html (archive)

• https://www.quora.com/Is-democracy-or-authoritarianism-better-for-developing-countries

For:

• dictatorships are more likely to start Why would democracy and freedom of speech make China less likely to start a war? (为什么民主和言论自由会让中国不太可能发动战争？) or other crazy policies like the Great Leap Forward, which completely destroy the economy in one go

• society becomes richer when people know that they can do their startups, get rich, and stay in the country without fear of being persecuted unfairly and losing everything instead of migrating to Canada, see also: [rule-of-law], [jack-mas-disappearance-2021]

• it is much harder to fix problems if you can’t talk about the. Any criticism of the government, even if constructive, is taken as menace to power, and more likely to be shut down, which makes the government and just becomes less efficient since there is less feedback.

  This greatly increase the probability of dealing poorly with such problems, see e.g. all the global problems listed at: Non-Chinese people should not interfere in Chinese politics (外国人不应该干预中国政治).

• governments are monopolies, and the more powerful they are, the worst it is for competition an efficiency in general. E.g.: the startup with better government ties wins, instead of the most efficient one.

• people in dictatorships tend to hide their true identities online and in life in general. It is best not to stand out, because if you make any mistake, you are really fucked. As a result, for example, if you do something awesome like a creating an open source project, but do it anonymously, you won’t get as much fame. And therefore everyone does less of such awesome things on average.

Against:

• presidents only care about the 4-8 year horizon, while dictators can make longer term decisions to maintain power forever, their power being limited only by "the people are happy enough to not start a revolution"

• dictatorships can make changes faster without the same amount of discussion that happens in democracies, where power is more spread out.

  Killing a million people will make us richer? No problem, let’s do it.

  That is great when they make good decisions, but it sucks when they make bad ones more likely.

Maybe China was poor because of Mao’s crazy communist regime. Similar regimes also made [russia] poor. And yes, before that exploitation by the West may have been a factor.

Definitely, the current regime is better than Mao’s, but just imagine how rich China could be if it had more freedom and justice.

Imperial China lost the race for the Industrial Revolution. Will another dictatorship be able to stay on top of the next technological revolution?

5.3.1.1. Dictatorships have greater development variability (专政具有更大的发展可变性)

5.3.1.2. Tea egg incident (茶葉蛋事件, 2011)

Dictatorships need [censorship] to survive, and they must control all information to make themselves always look good: [dictator-needs-gfw].

As a result, knowledge of problems flows more slowly, and therefore they also take longer to solve.

Maybe this hurts the argument, but Hillary agrees: :-)

But countries that restrict free access to information or violate the basic rights of internet users risk walling themselves off from the progress of the next century

Also mentioned at: Google versus China - VPRO documentary - 2011

This is also the basis of a Screen name keyword attack (网名审查关键字攻击).

This suggestion is even more explicit in the fictional World War Z 2006 novel by Max Brooks about a virus outbreak in China. It was later adapted into the World War Z (2013) movie by Paramount:

• https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jun/04/brad-pitt-china-world-war-z: Paramount cowards tried to kowtow and remove references to China from the movie, but it failed

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/china-barred-my-dystopian-novel-about-how-its-system-enables-epidemics/2020/02/27/cc0446f0-58e5-11ea-9000-f3cffee23036_story.html: no Chinese publisher dared publish the book unless China references were removed, which the author declined, and so the book was not published in China

Or if you prefer:

The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic.

Amartya Sen is another famous proponent of similar arguments in the area of hungers: https://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/211/44284.html (archive)

In democratic countries, even very poor ones, the survival of the ruling government would be threatened by famine, since elections are not easy to win after famines; nor is it easy to withstand criticism of opposition parties and newspapers. That is why famine does not occur in democratic countries. Unfortunately, there are a great many countries in the world which do not yet have democratic systems.

although like any other political argument, some disagree.

Virus outbreaks and other natural disasters also illustrate this well: Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus (2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查).

Bibliography:

• https://www.uow.edu.au/the-stand/2019/chernobyl-a-lesson-in-truth.php Chernobyl: a lesson in truth Secrets were kept, mistakes were made, and people were exposed

5.3.2.1. Chernobyl 2019 miniseries (切尔诺贝利_(迷你剧))

Figure 6. Photo of a CDV-717 radioactivity meter that maxes out at 3.6 Roentgen (倫琴) like the one that would have been used in Chernobyl. Source.

5.3.2.2. Censorship makes no one trust your country (审查使得沒有人相信你的国家)

5.3.2.3. Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus (2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查)

Figure 7. Assemblage of a respirator mask with a BDSM gag ball (口塞) attached to it, suggesting that citizen reports of COVID-19 in China have been censored. Source.

Figure 8. Corona Xi mural of [xi-jinping] morphed into a Coronavirus by Lushux. Fuller composition view: https://twitter.com/lushsux/status/1243830638966235136. Reddit called it Winnie the Flu in a reference to [winnie-the-pooh]. Source.

Figure 9. Comparison of how some Chinese sources counted COVID deaths excluding Taiwan (Republic of China, 台湾, 中華民國) and [hong-kong], while at the same time including their gold medals in their gold medal count to overcome the United States' medal count. TODO original untranslated source. Source.

5.3.2.3.2. Sitong Bridge protest (北京四通桥抗议, 2022, 彭立发, Peng Lifa, Peng Zaizhou, 彭载舟, Warrior of Sitong Bridge, 四通桥勇士)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Sitong_Bridge_protest

• https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/北京四通桥抗议

• #1060 contains videos

• Reddit threads:

  • https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/y2rl9p/protest_banners_in_downtown_beijing_i_hope_the/

  • https://www.reddit.com/r/China_irl/comments/y2qjpp/北京海淀区四通桥横幅/

• [rfa] https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/Xinwen/wulb-10132022033345.html

• https://twitter.com/jajia/status/1580434183209771008 gives the location. "The intersection of Zhongguancun Street and North Third Ring Road." 中關村大街和北三環交叉口。如圖

• https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/y57og2/the_brave_man_who_put_up_the_banner_on_the/ possible identity, not very well confirmed: https://twitter.com/lifa_petter

• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-18/anti-xi-slogans-in-rare-beijing-protest-spread-within-china?leadSource=uverify%20wall

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peng_Lifa

• https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/07/briefing/china-protest-peng-lifa.html

• https://www.nchrd.org/2022/12/peng-lifa-彭立发/

Peng Lifa is the real name, and Peng Zaizhou the pen name. TODO two twitter accounts on NYT.

不要核酸要吃饭
不要封城要自由
不要谎言要尊严
不要文革要改革
不要领袖要选票
不做奴隶做公民
No covid test, but food!
No lockdown, but freedom!
No lies, but dignity!
No the Cultural Revolution, but reform!
No leaders, but votes!
No slave, but citizen!

罢免独裁国贼习近平
Remove the dictatorial state traitor Xi Jinping!

And the dude had a loudspeaker too, he was not planning to flee at all:

要吃饭，要自由，要选票！罢课，罢工，罢免独裁国贼习近平！
Demand food, freedom, ballot! Students, workers, strike and depose the despotic traitor Xi Jinping!

Figure 10. Sitong Bridge protest photo from the crosswalk. Source.

Figure 11. Peng Lifa. Source.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lguW9FjLKC0 Video compilation by The Guardian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL2HGN0tRAk Video compilation by The Sun.

5.3.2.3.3. 2022 COVID-19 protests in China (白纸运动, 白纸革命, White paper protests)

• https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/反對動態清零政策運動

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_COVID-19_protests_in_China

Some Reddits:

• with Winnie the Pooh:

  • https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/z7ajho/chairman_for_life_xi_jinping_has_joined_the/ pooh emperor

  • https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/z75dn5/this_is_the_most_sensitive_photo_in_china_now/ pooh white paper

Figure 12. White paper protesters in Beijing. Source.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDAX8UO4ZQA (GitHub reupload of first segment) First segment of the video: protestors in Shanghai shouting "共产党下台，习近平下台" (CCP, get out, Xi Jinping, get out). Reuploaded from: https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/z5fpat/shanghai_protestors_calling_for_the_end_of_xi/ which already had it cut. Clearly visible shop signs on the back: "Jasmine Cashemire", "Biu Biu". Possible address according to Apple Maps: Nanjing West Road 1678. https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/z5fpat/comment/ixy66n9/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 says https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/z5fpat/comment/ixy66n9/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 "Urumqi Middle Road".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK4355hLtSg (GitHub reupload) Lady makes a spontaneous speech about [censorship] during protests in [chengdu]. Source from The Great Translation Movement (大翻译运动官方推号): https://twitter.com/TGTM_Official/status/1598290936500342784[. Also discussed on r/China Reddit sub:https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/zb1giv/chengdu_western_china_a_lady_giving_a_speech_in/[]. The melodramatic background music greatly weakens the video, it is a bit on the same lines as Little pink explains the difference between the American dream and the Chinese dream, though now on the opposing side. Chinese-style propaganda to fight Chinese-style propaganda I guess.

Key part of speech, transcript copied from this [epoch-times] page: https://test.qycz.org/a/202212/n16293244/web/

我一直非常愤怒的一点是，为什么我们说一句实话……我这两天，我在微信、我在抖音，我都在发，但是我所有的朋友都来劝我说‘小心’，‘小心被抓进去，这一抓就是要坐几年（牢）

One thing I have been very angry about is why we tell the truth…​ I have been posting on WeChat and Douyin in the past two days, but all my friends have come to persuade me to say 'be careful', 'be careful If you are arrested, you will have to sit there for several years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWzD3oprW_M (GitHub reupload) Students shout Democracy, Rule of Law, Freedom of Expression (清华大学学生们：民主法治，表达自由) and at Tsinghua University, Bejing. Discussed on r/China Reddit sub: https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/z5vq5u/tsinghua_university_students_call_for_democracy/[. A [pincong] post supporting the slogan: https://pincong.rocks/article/50818.

5.3.2.3.4. Li Wenliang (李文亮)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang

• https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/李文亮

He reported the virus, but was told by authorities to stay quiet, and later died from the virus, becoming somewhat of a martyr:

• https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51409801

• https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/2020/02/【网络民议】你能做到吗？-你听明白了吗？/ by [china-digital-times]

The following excerpt from his forced confession trended:

你能做到吗？
你听明白了吗？

Translation:

Can you manage?
Do you understand?

Figure 13. Selfie of Li Wenliang (李文亮) on his hospital bed before he died. Source.

Figure 14. Caricature of Li Wenliang (李文亮) wearing a mask made of barbed wire by artist [kuang-biao]. The image circulated on Weibo for some time. Source.

5.3.2.3.7. Fang Bin (方斌)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fang_Bin

• https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/方斌

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/GuqZJRTOvbqbGub

• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRItarzSwqakT-EZkSvuy3A

He was the second Chinese citizen journalist to vanish while reporting from coronavirus epicentre" by [scmp]

Hist last YouTube video simply shows the following caligraphed message with him reading it twice:

全民反抗
还政于民
方斌书

which translates as:

All the people, revolt.
Return the country (politics) to its people.
Written (calligraphed) by Fang Bin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7VIG2qp0j4 Fang Bin’s last YouTube video from 2020-02-09.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUvBNpkxrJo "Fang Bin is second Chinese citizen journalist to vanish while reporting from coronavirus epicentre" by [scmp]

Figure 15. Montage with images from two of Fang Bin’s last YouTube videos: on the left from the antepenultimate video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUXV4Ih2xrk, and on the right from the last "All the people, revolt" one.

• [labour-rights]

• [metoo]

• [gay-rights]

5.3.3.1. Low-end population (低端人口, 2017)

This has been discussed to death:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_peace_theory

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_Peace:_A_Philosophical_Sketch

Some arguments include:

• the people who will actually fight and die on the front can’t vote against it

• dictators have huge power, so if they put it in their heads that they want to start a war, it is much harder for sensible people to stop them

• dictators need to keep the people in fear all the time to keep their power, and a war is a great way to achieve that

Of course China won’t say that they are starting a war when they do.

They will of course start with territories which they claim as theirs, to add to other recent additions which were not theirs until the recent past, even though their inhabitants desperately want to leave China:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_China–India_skirmishes | https://www.asiasentinel.com/p/beijing-said-to-fund-separatist-india "Beijing Said to Fund Separatist India Movement"

Which reminds us of…​ Comparisons between the CCP and Nazi Germany (纳粹德国和中共长得很想):

• 1939 Gleiwitz incident, a false flag attack

• 1938 Annexation of Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_World_War_II explains:

  A decisive proximate event was the 1938 Munich Conference, which formally approved Germany’s annexation of the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia. Hitler promised it was his last territorial claim, but in early 1939 he became even more aggressive, and European governments finally realized that appeasement was not guaranteeing peace."

• 1935-1938 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Causes_of_World_War_II&oldid=968409781#Expansionism_and_militarism comments:

  In Italy, Benito Mussolini sought to create a New Roman Empire, based around the Mediterranean. It invaded Ethiopia as early as 1935, Albania in early 1938, and later Greece. That provoked angry words and an oil embargo from the League of Nations, which failed.

• 1931 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria, with one false flag event preceding it: Mikden Incident.

When China calls the USA Imperialist (帝国主义), there is of course some truth to it, but it is also very ironic, because as Lindybeige mentions, China is obviously the largest empire on Earth! Despite its uniformization efforts, China is highly diverse since it is obviously made up of a large stitched up carpet of nations that were conquered by a single empire. E.g. Xinjiang (新疆) translates literally as "The New Frontier"! Not to mention obviously the unification of the [warring-states-period].

Bibliography:

• https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/06/14/xi-jinpings-approval-non-war-military-use-raises-fears-taiwan/ Xi Jinping signs directive allowing for 'non-war' uses of the military - a tactic similar to that used by Russia before it invaded Ukraine

5.3.4.1. The United States has recently started several wars and killed millions! (美国最近发动了几场战争，造成数百万人死亡！)

When will they be ready? Who decides? What if they think that they are ready now?

In George Bernard Shaw’s "Maxims for Revolutionists" words:

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Many democracy supporters jokingly recognize democracy’s shortcomings.

A fake Churchill quote:

The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.

Art Spander:

The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.

Laurence J Peter:

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

5.3.5.1. The Chinese masses are not interested in politics and therefore not ready to vote (中国群众对政治不感兴趣，因此不准备投票)

This argument can be made, but it is a risky way to live: Most Chinese people don’t care about the minorities (大多数中国人不关心少数民族).

Herman Goring actually justified the atrocities of Nazism in the exact same way during his appearance on the Nuremberg trials.

Do the ends always justify the means?

What is the point of having all that wealth, when you risk being put into jail for unfair reasons?

Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的) argues that China would be even richer if it weren’t for the CCP: Why would democracy and freedom of speech make China richer? (为什么民主和言论自由能够让中国变得更加富有？), and that the CCP only violates people’s human rights as a tool to stay in power: Is the Chinese government evil? (中国共产党是邪恶的吗？).

One of the key points of Xi Jinping’s governments has been to quench corruption. And use that as an excuse to get rid of rivals while at it.

However, there is one much better solution to that: democracy and freedom of speech.

The reason is obvious: with censorship, corrupt politicians can censor anything bad that they did, and so it becomes much harder to destroy corruption.

In George Bernard Shaw’s "Maxims for Revolutionists" words:

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Ciro does however believe the China spy stories (中国间谍故事) claims made at https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/21/china-stolen-us-data-exposed-cia-operatives-spy-networks/ that the anti-corruption is also a legitimate national security issue for China, in addition to being a tool to take down political rivals:

Over the course of their investigation into the CIA’s China-based agent network, Chinese officials learned that the agency was secretly paying the "promotion fees" - in other words, the bribes - regularly required to rise up within the Chinese bureaucracy, according to four current and former officials. It was how the CIA got "disaffected people up in the ranks. But this was not done once, and wasn’t done just in the [Chinese military]," recalled a current Capitol Hill staffer. "Paying their bribes was an example of long-term thinking that was extraordinary for us," said a former senior counterintelligence official. "Recruiting foreign military officers is nearly impossible. It was a way to exploit the corruption to our advantage." At the time, "promotion fees" sometimes ran into the millions of dollars, according to a former senior CIA official: "It was quite amazing the level of corruption that was going on." The compensation sometimes included paying tuition and board for children studying at expensive foreign universities, according to another CIA officer.

https://youtu.be/8F0kSDV9U_E?t=408 Shocking Russian Military Corruption Exposed by Task & Purpose (2022) poses an interesting thesis: the toplevel of corrupt governments know about the corruption of officials and accept it. And this is in part to have leverage over them, to be able to bring them down whenever they feel like it. This incentivizes loyalty.

Well known corruption cases:

• 2020 Ren Zhiqiang

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_Zhiqiang

  • https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/任志强

  • https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/22/asia/china-ren-zhiqiang-xi-jinping-intl-hnk/index.html "Chinese tycoon who criticized Xi Jinping's handling of coronavirus jailed for 18 years"

• 2012 Ling Jihua (令计划): son died in Ferrari crash with two women on the car, which put the spotlight on him

• 2012 [bo-xilai]: trigerred by the murder of Neil Heywood, of which Bo’s wife was accused

Related events:

• [panama-papers]

• [putin-s-palace]

5.3.7.1. Operation Fox Hunt

The keyword attack is basically an embargo.

There is already a lot of literature about this, especially in the cases of Cuba and North Korea. It is basically a libertarian vs conservative/Cato vs Heritage thing in the US:

• https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/no-embargo-harms-cubans-gives-castro-excuse-policy-failures-regime

• https://www.heritage.org/trade/report/why-the-cuban-trade-embargo-should-be-maintained

• https://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_big_idea/2006/08/thanks_for_the_sanctions.html

The key dilemma is:

• if we keep contact with the Dictatorship, maybe its people will see that democracy is better and start a liberating revolution

• if we keep giving technology to the Dictatorship and it does not become a democracy, we are making a Dictatorship more technologically advanced, and therefore dangerous

Some interesting aspects of the keyword attack embargo:

• it is immediately self-enforcing: we don’t need politicians to decide and enforce the complex "if you do this, we punish you like that" question.

  By political and technological information is together, and this immediately puts the dictatorship in a bad spot, without us having to decide anything.

• by affecting programmers in particular through Stack Overflow and GitHub, we make them more likely to develop better Firewall climbing tools themselves

One point in favor of the embargo is that China has opened up since the '80s '90s, but did freedom improve at all? Under [xi-jinping], it may be argued that it did not, and maybe that we should just stop feeding them technology and accept that they won’t become free.

Trump’s 2019 China trade war, and in particular the [huawei] ban, is an event that has brought this question to the spotlight once again.

5.4.1.1. Keyword attacks could be used by certain CCP political groups to justify blocking off the entire external Internet, and make the dictatorship even more pervasive

Hitting the block button has, of course, no cost.

The cost of blocking Stack Overflow lies of course in the loss of information, and slower technological development, see also: Why attack websites with censored keywords? (用审查词攻击网站有什么用呢？)

Remember that [it-is-not-possible-to-block-a-single-page-of-an-https-website]

The 2019 [nine-nine-six-icu] event however brought to my attention that Chinese (usually WebKit-based) browsers are already censoring HTTPS websites selectively of course, see e.g.: https://github.com/996browser/996.BROWSER/tree/77f28a36a862e3cc4d238dc47c19872156096bc4

But Ciro doubt developers use those browsers, right? The only way would be for China to forbid foreign browsers entirely.

BTW, [ensi] brings a whole new dimension to HTTPS by encrypting the domain name as well!

5.4.2.1. Is Stack Overflow blocked in China? (Stack Overflow 在中国被封锁了吗？)

But isn’t it better to be annoyed than having war, being poor or put into jail unfairly?

Another good option is to use the trusty [cac-report-website].

Installing any of those immediately give you 10 Sesame Points, 习万岁.

See also: Does Ciro Santilli want to harm the Chinese programmers? 三西猴想要伤害中国程序员吗？.

5.4.3.1. Browser extensions to hide keyword attacks (隐藏关键字攻击的浏览器扩展)

TODO study further to confirm:

• https://www.quora.com/How-much-is-Japan-to-blame-for-the-KMT-losing-control-of-the-Chinese-mainland

• https://china-journal.org/2018/02/26/why-did-chiang-kai-shek-lose-china-the-guomindang-regime-and-the-victory-of-the-chinese-communist-party

• https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/毛泽东感谢日本争议

• https://www.japanpolicyforum.jp/diplomacy/pt20160517095311.html (Japanese state media, but cites sources)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Revolution mentions:

  The French historian Lucien Bianco, however, is among those who question whether imperialism and "feudalism" explain the revolution.[7] He points out that the Chinese Communist Party did not have great success until the Japanese invasion of China after 1937. Before the war, the peasantry was not ready for revolution; economic reasons were not enough to mobilize them. More important was nationalism: "It was the war that brought the Chinese peasantry and China to revolution; at the very least, it considerably accelerated the rise of the CCP to power."

  And China would be much much less technologically advanced had it come in contact with the West, from which it is still trying to learn/steal from: University espionage (大学间谍).

  Foreign influence can be both good or bad.

• http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2005/07/12/2003263221/ (BIASED) says:

  War histories from both Japan and the Republic of China clearly indicate the scale of the CCP’s "participation." From 1937 to 1945, there were 23 battles where both sides employed at least a regiment each. The CCP was not a main force in any of these. The only time it participated, it sent a mere 1,000 to 1,500 men, and then only as a security detachment on one of the flanks.

  There were 1,117 significant engagements on a scale smaller than a regular battle, but the CCP fought in only one. Of the approximately 40,000 skirmishes, just 200 were fought by the CCP, or 0.5 percent.

  Not even the CCP can provide any data on its number of casualties in the war, and there are no memorials to CCP heroes in the war to be found in China. This makes one wonder what China really did contribute

Everyone is "brainwashed" by their environment.

E.g. people in the West are brainwashed to believe in democracy, freedom of speech and human rights.

Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的) doesn’t doubt that Chinese people know more about China than him.

Saying that "someone is not Chinese, he does not understand China", is just an useless Ad hominem (訴諸人身) argument and closely related to Non-Chinese people should not interfere in Chinese politics (外国人不应该干预中国政治).

Since you know so much about China, why why don’t you just actually prove your point by teaching Ciro one single interesting about China that Ciro didn’t know about? He loves learning new things.

But please, link to reference material instead of just saying it, it will be much more convincing.

But if you are Chinese, also consider that you have been brainwashed by the commies, so likely much more than Ciro since you live in a dictatorship.

See also:

• Western democracies are not perfect (西方的民主有很多缺点).

• Ad hominem (訴諸人身)

First, obviously, Western democracies are not perfect (西方的民主有很多缺点).

However, the CCP greatly exaggerates how evil the West is, because making your people constantly afraid is a classic strategy used by dictators to stay in power.

Or in fable form:

Once upon a time, there was a farmer with a farm.

One day, the animals on the farm started feeling a bit trapped, and started bumping against the fence to get out.

The farmer, however, was smart, and told the animals:

Careful! There is a wolf outside! If you go out, you will be eaten by the wolf!

The animals, were not that smart, and listened to the farmer, they were afraid!

From time to time, one of the animals would disappear (and without their knowledge, reappear on the farmer’s dinner table).

But the farmer kept giving the animals delicious food without them making any effort, so they decided to believe the farmer’s explanation that animal had escaped and been eaten by the wolf.

Maybe, there was actually a wolf outside. But if they had escaped, only some of the animals would have been eaten by that wolf.

But by staying on the farm, all the animals were, sooner or later, eaten one by one.

TODO source.

This theme is also highlighted in many well known works/events.

North Korea for example, China’s good and trusty friend, is just a caricatural level of this, since it manages to be more a dictatorship than even China itself!

In fiction, [nineteen-eighty-four] is undoubtedly the most prominent example, in which the Party constantly switches from being at war with one country to the other in a never ending perpetual war (exactly like North Korea vs South Korea, or China vs Taiwan (Republic of China, 台湾, 中華民國)).

One of the best related quotes comes in Part Two, Chapter 9 when Winston reads Emmanuel Goldstein’s subversive text, one of the chapters contains (emphasis by Ciro):

The war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles between certain ruminant animals whose horns are set at such an angle that they are incapable of hurting one another. But though it is unreal it is not meaningless. It eats up the surplus of consumable goods, and it helps to preserve the special mental atmosphere that a hierarchical society needs. War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact. The very word 'war', therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. The peculiar pressure that it exerted on human beings between the Neolithic Age and the early twentieth century has disappeared and been replaced by something quite different. The effect would be much the same if the three super-states, instead of fighting one another, should agree to live in perpetual peace, each inviolate within its own boundaries. For in that case each would still be a self-contained universe, freed for ever from the sobering influence of external danger. A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war. This—​although the vast majority of Party members understand it only in a shallower sense—​is the inner meaning of the Party slogan: WAR IS PEACE.

This is also the first line of the party slogan, which perfectly resonates with the CCP:

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

or in Part One, Chapter 3:

Since about that time, war had been literally continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. For several months during his childhood there had been confused street fighting in London itself, some of which he remembered vividly. But to trace out the history of the whole period, to say who was fighting whom at any given moment, would have been utterly impossible, since no written record, and no spoken word, ever made mention of any other alignment than the existing one. At this moment, for example, in 1984 (if it was 1984), Oceania was at war with Eurasia and in alliance with Eastasia. In no public or private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines. Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control. Officially the change of partners had never happened. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

Another amazing quote that comes to mind is from the 1982 BBC TV adaptation of John Le Carre’s spy novel "Smiley’s People". In it, master British spy codenamed Smiley manages to coerce the head of the KGB spies, codename "Karla" to defect to the West by threatening to publicize illegal acts Karla committed for the benefit of the health mentally troubled daughter, and which would likely lead to his execution. In a letter he writes to Karla, he says, likely copied verbatim from the novel:

And I am not going to make any claims about the moral superiority of the West. I’m sure you can see through our values, just as I can see through yours in the East. You and I have spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in each other’s systems. I’m sure each of us experienced innumerable technical satisfactions in our wretched cold war. But now your own side is going to shoot you, for nothing. For misdemeanors you have not committed, because of a power struggle within your own kind, because of someone’s suspicions or sheer incompetence.

See also: https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-like-and-admire-about-the-culture-of-China/answer/Ciro-Santilli

https://youtu.be/74Mw3N6WxG0?t=174 Cant Get You Out of My Head S01E05 Part Five The Lordly Ones also (2021, BBC) mentions that a huge propaganda machinery was created to spread the fake news that [tiananmen] was an evil western plot.

Duplicate pool: https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues?q=label%3Aevil-west+

Bibliography:

• https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md

5.5.3.1. Friendly West-China moments (中西友好时刻)

5.5.3.1.1. United China Relief (葛思德)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bettis_Garside

• https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/葛思德

United China Relief was the largest humanitarian effort in the United States to aid the Chinese people up to that time. The organization, which was renamed United Service to China (USC) after the Second World War, raised over US$50 million in donations over ten ten years.

Figure 24. 1942 billboard by United China Relief that reads "3,000,000 Chinese have given their lives for democracy. What have you given?"

Ciro Santilli’s Ciro Santilli’s wife (三西猴的老婆), her mother, and paternal cousin, believe that Ciro’s wife is the descendant of the brother of a recent Qing emperor through her father’s family.

Although they have not been able to produce concrete evidence, which could be explained by the endless political turmoils in 20th century China, Ciro decided that this would be a good bet to take, and married her anyway.

If anyone is able to provide further evidence of this relationship, please, please, please get in touch.

One thing to keep in mind is that the [qing-dynasty], like the previous [ming-dynasty], used Generation names (行辈), such that the first character of the given name is the same for all people in a given generation (counted directly from the first emperor that adopted the rule.

For example, this wiki page contains a good family tree of the most important Qing people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_tree_of_Chinese_monarchs_(late)#Qing_dynasty and we see that many important people around 1861 were Zai 載something, e.g.: Zaichun, Zaiyi, Zaitian, etc.

The last emperor was Puyi, so Pu is the last well known mark. But there were others planned that never got used for after him as shown at: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=House_of_Aisin-Gioro&oldid=858104957.

• Zai (before Pu)

• Pu (wife’s great-grandfather)

• Yu (wife’s grandfather)

• Heng (wife’s father)

• Qi (wife)

• Dao (wife’s children). At least one thing is decided from this: Ciro’s children Chinese names will all be Ai Dao Something.

Many of them have had different names in different places/countries, notably many used the name 肇(Zhao) rather than 艾.

Further anecdotal indicators follow.

Ciro’s wife and family are clearly of the Manchu ethnicity just by looking at them, and they originally lived in the North East of China

Ciro’s wife’s family name is the 艾, pronounced "ai4", which she claims is a reference to the 愛 (also pronounced ai4) in Aisin Gioro (愛新覺羅氏), which is the name of the Manchu ruling clan of the Qing dynasty.

艾 iself is however a somewhat common family name, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_(surname) mentions that it is listed in the Hundred Family Surnames (百家姓), a list of common surnames compiled in the [song-dynasty] with around 400.000 members as of 2008. Presumably members of the falling Qing dynasty chose that relatively common Chinese name to avoid persecution, while still retaining a bit of their history.

Bibliography:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_of_the_House_of_Aisin_Gioro

• https://www.zhihu.com/question/34813921 现在清朝皇室的后代现状如何？ What is the current status of the descendants of the Qing royal family?

• https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-descendants-of-the-Qing-Dynasty-left-currently

• https://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.6274.pdf "Y Chromosome of Aisin Gioro, the Imperial House of Qing Dynasty" unknown year. Unfortunately Ciro’s wife does not have an Y chromosome like her father. This does however mention the book used as a genealogy reference: https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/愛新覺羅宗譜.html?id=Pj4EAQAAIAAJ 愛新覺羅宗譜 On Douban: https://book.douban.com/subject/4162448/ gives ISBN 9787507713428 On Amazon unavailable: https://www.amazon.com/dp/7507713423. Lol this makes this repo show up at: https://paperswithcode.com/paper/y-chromosome-of-aisin-gioro-the-imperial

Ciro’s father-in-law, who he barely met, was very old when he had Ciro’s wife, and passed away before Ciro could talk a lot with him, they only saw each other once or twice over Skype, he died soon afterwards.

Having a child late which is consistent with the claims that he spent several years in jail during Mao’s purges, see also: Ciro Santilli’s wife (三西猴的老婆). Being an educated person was a crime in those days, and he was a chemical engineer.

His brother and sister both managed to escape to the USA and Japan, but he took his grandma’s advice and stayed in China.

Ciro’s wife adores her father, who she strongly resembles, and it is a huge shame Ciro didn’t manage to meet him better.

Like his daughter, he was a bibliophile, foodie, Buddhist and incredibly morally upright.

The fact that he survived so many years in prison also attests to his incredible hopefulness and mental health: Ciro Santilli’s mother-in-law (三西猴的岳母) always tells how many other prisoners killed themselves in those days out of hopelessness. Ciro’s wife shares that amazing quality, which Ciro also believes is compatible with the Royalty theory.

After jail, he actually stayed in the same shitty city where he had been imprisoned, and continued to work as a chemical engineer to make a living and try and improve the country that had so badly betrayed him a few years back.

He also seemed to be an amazing story teller, of which he knew many. At one point, a jail cook took him under his wing, even tough he did not know how to cook too well yet, just to hear his stores. Being highly intelligent, the father-in-law man learned to cook too of course.

Another remarkable episode is when he was working in the prison kitchen, and some man was starving and asked for food. He told the man to come later during the evening. The man came, and he gave him a bowl that seemed to be full of cooked vegetables (likely 白菜). The next day, the man came back, and kowtowed him. Beneath the vegetables, he had hidden some good chunks of then very precious meat!! This story makes Ciro cry.

Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的) tries to justify why he think China would be better with democracy, but I know that ultimately all of this is useless.

Everyone’s opinions are all determined genetically and by bring-up, and there is nothing he can do to change yours, or you change his.

From that point of view, all of this is just a cold blooded political game, in which Ciro tries to force the CCP to take down the Firewall: Why attack websites with censored keywords? (用审查词攻击网站有什么用呢？).

Ciro never gets mad about China, even if your opinion is contrary to his, and therefore wrong.

Using the reply policy is one of the reasons why Ciro never gets mad.

Ciro also has doubts about the efficiency of certain things I do as expressed throughout this FAQ, e.g. Embargoes make dictatorships stronger (禁运使独裁更强大).

Also, Ciro have never said that anyone else is wrong.

In the end, he just end up thinking about new replies to things people say to him, and add them to this FAQ so that future replies will be faster to copy paste. See also: Doesn’t Ciro Santilli have anything better to do than pissing off China? (除了反对中共以外，三西猴有没有别的更好的事儿要作吗？).

The real goal of any online discussion, is not to convince people, but rather to determine who is an ally and who is not, and get those allies together to defeat the commies.

Not consciously, Ciro thinks would likely support them even if I didn’t have family ties to [falun-gong].

Likely he wouldn’t have started this campaign if he didn’t know them of course.

But of course, this is impossible to answer objectively.

Wouldn’t you be rather upset if your mother in law were put into jail unfairly for 15 days?

But don’t you think that 70 million people (6% of the total population in 2000!) getting completely squashed by the Party illustrates extremely well the dangers of the dictatorship?

Or if a Jew has escaped a concentration camp and told the world about its horrors, would you just dismiss their claims due to their biased opinion?

With that in mind, Ciro tries his best to give FLG only the right level of exposure I think it deserves relative to other events, according to these guidelines: How does Ciro Santilli choose keywords for the keyword attack? (三西猴如何为关键词攻击选择关键词？).

If more recent events of mass human rights violations happen, especially affecting in the order of tens of million people, I will probably rank higher than Falun Gong, this was the case for Xinjiang in 2019 for example, even though it only affected a measly million.

The last straw that led Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的) to start the Screen name keyword attack (网名审查关键字攻击) on Stack Overflow was when on March 2015 his girlfriend’s mother was arbitrarily kept 15 days in jail for doing [falun-gong]. He posted about this at:

• https://twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/579270450984984576

• https://www.facebook.com/cirosantilli/posts/952661734753174

He then continued because he hate political censorship, and because I love China.

Every time Ciro thinks about this, he notices how stupid humans are. We see the forest fire smoke, and just never think that it will ever reach your home on the border of the forest.

Until it actually does, and then you are really fucked.

So in a sense it was a good thing that Ciro had this little backyard fire with this mother-in-law, as it woke him up further to how serious the CCP thread was, and led him to action.

Because before that, he was one of the majority who just constantly hears about the increasing mountain of evidence of human rights violations, and does nothing about it.

The Darkest Hour (2017) film comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA1Uz_TMzhs. The movie shows that Britain was truly hesitant whether to negotiate or fight Hitler, even after the Nazis had already started invading other European countries, and would clearly not stop. Luckily, we are not at a position of war yet, and might never be due to nuclear weapons. But still, a similar blindness applies. Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus (2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查) woke up many people, but even then some haven’t faced it.

5.6.5.1. Ciro Santilli’s mother-in-law (三西猴的岳母)

5.6.5.2. Ciro Santilli’s post when his mother-in-law was put into jail for doing Falun Gong (岳母因修炼法轮功入狱时的帖子)

Figure 26. Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的) with his soon-to-be mother-in-law before his wedding in 2017. Annoying? Sometimes. But threat to the fucking Chinese State? How fucked does your political system have to be for the answer to be a "yes"?

5.6.5.3. Further details about Ciro Santilli’s mother-in-law’s persecution (三西猴岳母受迫害的更多细节)

5.6.5.4. In the Tweet about his mother in law, Ciro Santilli says "correctional facility", but reeducation through labour has been abolished

Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的) can understand that.

There are concrete advantages to being a dictatorship, see e.g. Dictatorships have greater development variability (专政具有更大的发展可变性), Why would democracy and freedom of speech make China richer? (为什么民主和言论自由能够让中国变得更加富有？), making good radical changes like simplifying your insane writing system.

And it must feel good to have absolute truth in the Cult of Xi, and let the black police get rid of weirdos for you.

But what happens when the dictatorship turns again you our your family? Will you fight, or will you just let them do whatever they want because they can never be wrong? See also: Most Chinese people don’t care about the minorities (大多数中国人不关心少数民族).

And when your son betrays you or sacrifices himself for the Dictator, will you just smile and accept it in pride?

What happens when the dictator declares waw, and if you protest against it, you will go to jail?

Intolerance is a risky way to live.

See also: Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973, 春天的十七个瞬间, Soviet series about a Soviet spy against the Nazis, 关于苏联间谍反对纳粹的苏联系列)

5.7.1.1. Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973, 春天的十七个瞬间, Soviet series about a Soviet spy against the Nazis, 关于苏联间谍反对纳粹的苏联系列)

5.7.1.2. Most Chinese people like their dictatorship (中国大众支持他们的独裁)

Figure 27. Westerner: "How is life in China?" Chinese: "Oh, we can’t complain." Westerner: "That’s awesome." Chinese: "No, seriously…​ we can’t." is a word play between the more common "we can’t complain because everything is great" and "we can’t complain because Xi will make us disappear". Source

Figure 28. Translation of the above.

Figure 29. "Public displays of personal distress are unpatriotic" spoof poster by [scarfolk-council] (2017). Source.

Figure 30. Presumed Chinese people giving the middle finger (竖中指) to various [ccp] symbols, most notably [xi-jinping]. Even if this was made by the CIA, it perfectly illustrates the point that obviously no one speaks against the CCP because otherwise they will be put in jail. If you are going to do this, for Fuck’s Sake please cover your fingers, like the ones using gloves, or the banknotes, because if the photo resolution is good enough, you could be identified by your fingerprint. A r/China repost. This photo seems to be the result of a campaign started by GFWfrog (墙国蛙蛤蛤) in response to the 100th anniversary of the Party in 2021. This was also explained at: https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/667778.html on [china-digital-times]. Related: [anonymous-account-ban]. This project was perhaps inspired by pro CCP images celebrating the 100 years such as https://archive.ph/OJGHl/5f09f24ce2e3f856b08e79cdade72ad2af72e9a0.jpg from https://kknews.cc/culture/gmnl5vy.html on [kknews]. Source.

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5.7.1.3. Most Chinese people don’t care about the minorities (大多数中国人不关心少数民族)

Moved to: Western democracies are not perfect (西方的民主有很多缺点).

Oh, no. You have discovered our secret!!!

That is definitely true.

Nothing is perfect in this world.

Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的) just believes that they are way better than a Why does Ciro Santilli say that China is a dictatorship? (中国不是独裁！) like China, and that the Chinese government brainwashes its people to think that the West is evil to stay in power.

As Churchill once brilliantly put it:

Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

However, this is all obviously subjective, and believing that dictatorship is a better form of government is also a valid belief, e.g. Dictatorships have greater development variability (专政具有更大的发展可变性).

If you find an event on a Western democracy that you would like to highlight, send a pull request.

We will not however include events that are not currently censored.

Every country did fucked-up things in the past, the question is if they currently allow discussion about it or not.

Posts that only mention "evil West" non-censored events without adding anything to the discussion will be marked as I want to take my chances and make a shitpost in cirosantilli/china-dictatorship (屎帖子) and treated as such, since spamming those is the primary [wumao] technique to stop intelligent discussion.

The reason why "Evil China" posts are not shitposts in general on the other hand, is that they have one specific purpose: to destroy censorship.

This "Western censorship copypasta string" was posted automatically by a bot during r/China purge day:

North Dakota Access Pipeline Protests 北达科他州接入管道抗议
Ferguson Riots 弗格森暴动
2017 St. Louis protests2017 年圣路易斯抗议活动
Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll 比基尼环礁的核试验
Unite the Right rally 团结右集会
Charlotte riots 夏洛特暴动
Attack on the Sui-ho Dam 袭击穗河水坝
Milwaukee riots 密尔沃基骚乱
Shooting of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile 奥尔顿·斯特林和菲兰多·卡斯蒂利亚的射击
Occupation of the Malheur NationalWildlife Refuge Malheur国家野生动物保护区的占领
death of Freddie Gray 弗雷迪·格雷的死
Shooting of Michael Brown迈克尔·布朗的拍摄
death of Eric Garner, Oakland California 奥克兰奥克兰市埃里克·加纳（Eric Garner）逝世
Operation Condor 神鹰行动
Occupy WallStreet 占领华尔街
My Lai Massacre 我的大屠杀
St. Petersburg, Florida 佛罗里达州圣彼得堡
Kandahar Massacre 坎大哈屠杀
1992 Washington Heights riots 1992年华盛顿高地暴动
No Gun Ri Massacre 无枪杀案
L.A. Rodney King riots 洛杉矶罗德尼·金暴动
1979 Greensboro Massacre 1979年格林斯伯勒大屠杀
Vietnam War 越南战争
Kent State shootings肯特州枪击案
Bombing of Tokyo 轰炸东京
San Francisco Police Department Park Station bombing 旧金山警察局公园站爆炸案
Assassination of MartinLuther King, Jr. 小马丁·路德·金遭暗杀。
Long Hot Summer of 1967 1967年炎热的夏天
Bagram 巴格拉姆
Selma to Montgomery marches 塞尔玛到蒙哥马利游行
Highway of Death 死亡之路
Ax Handle Saturday 星期六斧头
Battle of Evarts 埃瓦茨战役
Battle ofBlair Mountain 布莱尔山战役
McCarthyism 麦卡锡主义
Red Summer 红色夏天
Rock Springs massacre 岩泉大屠杀
Pottawatomie massacre 盆大屠杀
Jeju uprising 济州起义
Colfaxmassacre 科尔法克斯大屠杀
Reading Railroad massacre 阅读铁路大屠杀
Rock Springs massacre 岩泉大屠杀
Bay viewMassacre 湾景大屠杀
Lattimer massacre 拉蒂默大屠杀
Ludlow massacre 拉德洛屠杀
Everett massacre 埃弗里特屠杀Centralia Massacre 中部大屠杀
Ocoee massacre Ocoee大屠杀
Herrin Massacre 赫林大屠杀
Redwood Massacre红木大屠杀
Columbine Mine Massacre 哥伦拜恩矿难
[guantanamo-bay]
extraordinary rendition 非凡的演绎
Abu Ghraib torture and prison abuse 阿布格莱布的酷刑和监狱虐待
Henry Kissinger 亨利·基辛格 [iranian-coup-1953]
Eight-Nation Alliance (八國聯軍) (1900)
Unequal treaty (不平等条约) (1842-1933)

Some others:

• too many people in jail in the USA:

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_map_of_prison_population_rates_from_World_Prison_Brief.svg

  • https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/美国监禁制度

  • #938

  • https://incarceration-in-real-numbers.metastem.su/

  • https://wealthscale.metastem.su/

  • meanwhile China leads by far on execution numbers:

    • https://www.amnesty.ie/what-we-do/abolish-death-penalty/

    • 2016 but very small https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/global-executions-down-more-third-death-sentences-record-high-new-report

    • 2014 CC BY-SA https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/which-countries-execute-the-most-people-chilling-new-map-reveals-china-and-iran-put-more-people-to-death-than-any-other-country-a6796351.html

    • 2012 https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/mar/29/death-penalty-countries-world

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_van

See also:

• Why would democracy and freedom of speech make China richer? (为什么民主和言论自由能够让中国变得更加富有？)

• Ciro Santilli has a preconceived opinion about China that cannot be changed (三西猴对中国成见很深，无法改变)

• Ciro Santilli and this page are completely biased against the Chinese Government! (三西猴和本页完全对中国政府有偏见！)

• The United States has recently started several wars and killed millions! (美国最近发动了几场战争，造成数百万人死亡！)

5.8.2.1. Two wrongs don’t make a right (积非成是)

5.8.2.2. The West is racist against black people (西方人对黑人有种族主义)

Figure 34. Racism in the West vs racism in China. Of course there is racism in the West against black people. But the people have the choice to speak up against it to try and change things. In China however, speaking up against Muslim racism, means going to jail. Image sources: murder of George Floyd, George Floyd protests in Philadelphia, Xinjiang prisoners, Tiananmen Square on 2021-06-03, the anniversary of [tiananmen].

5.8.2.2.2. We Don’t Hire Blacks by Aaron Dewitt (我们不雇用黑人, 2020)

This amazing video was originally uploaded to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d81mEbL8Yw8 by [aaron-dewitt] on 2020-09-21 but it was down as of 2021-06-21. Last [wayback-machine] archive as of that date: 2020-11-03.

The video description was:

This is an exposé of racist companies that I worked for, some of which operate in the United States and Canada, all of which are headquartered in China.

In it, Aaron describes his experiences with the recruitment team of one of his former employers, an unnamed "Chinese ed-tech company in Beijing", for which he worked in human resources. In another also deleted video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6uFGGunRxc he mentions that he cannot mention the name of the company because he was under NDA.

Notably, in that video, he gives several screenshots of Google Sheets spreadsheets with explicitly racist reasons why people were not hired, one of which is reproduced here. Examples of such reasons include:

• "Skin color"

• "Non-Caucasian"

• "62-years old"

• "elderly"

• "Hispanic"

He mentions:

On the first day at this company, I had an orientation with my supervisor Ng, who is the head of the training department. She told me:

"We hire blacks. Obama black is OK. But no darker, or they’ll scare the kids. The kids will think they’re some kind of monster!"

which would lead parents to just go to a competitor instead. Then he mentions about the Google Sheets documents that:

They shared this document with the entire management team in Beijing, and everyone not only knew, but expected this discrimination to take place.

In the video he also explains how he once went to a 2 week holiday to Bali, and when he came back with his skin darker due to the tanning, he was reprimanded by a manager, who said that he could not work looking like that.

He explicitly mentions later the video that VIPKid, for which he did not work, is a similar company in nature, but not the one he is talking about.

Wikipedia mentions about VIPKid

Its online-classroom portal enables students to receive 25-minute English language lessons from fluent English-speaking teachers.

In March 2019, VIPKid fired two American teachers for discussing the 1989 [tiananmen] and Taiwan (Republic of China, 台湾, 中華民國) with their students in China. Teachers have also reported witnessing child abuse when teaching lessons, but they found little recourse to report such issues.

As of 2021-05-05, the banner image of VIPKid’s website explicitly includes a token black person: https://web.archive.org/web/20210505045920/https://www.vipkid.com/, so their PR department clearly caught air of this. This is however only a frontend for hiring American teachers. The real Chinese client website https://www.vipkid.com.cn/, rest assured, contains no black people: (archive)

VIPKids had a 3 billion valuation in https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/chinas-vipkid-which-links-native-english-speakers-with-online-learners-raises-another-500m-reportedly-at-3b-valuation/

Wikipedia links as one of its sources to this 2019 article https://www.wired.com/story/when-online-teaching-job-becomes-window-child-abuse/ which mentions:

Of the dozens of companies vying to cash in on the tutoring business, it is by far the largest, having raised $825 million in investment capital since its founding. Other major players include Qkids, Magic Ears, DaDa, and Gogokid, all based in China.

so it is overwhelmingly likely that one of those is the one mentioned Aaron is talking about:

• Qkids

• Magic Ears

• DaDa

• Gogokid

Later in the video Aaron mentions that the company in question "basically went bankrupt".

He also mentions that he later worked for offcn, which is run by the Chinese Government, and they would absolutely not hire black people.

Figure 35. Screenshot of the video We Don’t Hire Blacks by Aaron Dewitt (我们不雇用黑人, 2020) showing a list racist job interview candidate rejection reasons.

5.8.2.3. Western democracies have invaded other countries and crushed separatism (西方民主国家侵略别国粉碎分裂主义)

5.8.2.4. Western democracies also censor subjects such as child porn and hate speech (西方民主国家也审查儿童色情和仇恨言论等主题)

5.8.2.4.3. Censorship of "politically incorrect speech" (审查政治不正确言论)

Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的) strongly believes that this is a problem with Wester social media. For example in Stack Overflow forbids criticizing the character of genocidal political leaders like Xi Jinping Stack Overflow forbade Ciro from saying:

I think Trump is disgusting as a person

because they thought Trump would become sad and cry.

Western governments should pass laws that prevent this kind of arbitrary political censorship by companies.

But of course as usual: censorship in a dictatorship like China is always a million times worse.

Figure 36. "Please enjoy this culturally ethnically religiously and politically correct cartoon responsibly" cartoon by Michael Shaw from the New Yorker (2006) makes a reference to the fact that all humour is a criticism of something, and that excessive political correctness can be used as a way to limit free speech.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiqDZlAZygU Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) defending freedom of speech in the context of the Reform Section 5 campaign to remove all criminalization of insults. The campaigns slogan was "Feel free to insult me!". He then quotes: "The strongest weapon against hateful speech is not repression, it is more speech" from an Obama speech.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNjYSns0op0 Munk Debate on Political Correctness (2018) features Stephen Fry and Jordan Peterson speaking against political correctness. Those dudes are awesome. https://youtu.be/rJOMYEXK6cs?t=150 summarizes it well.

5.8.2.5. Western society is extremely unequal (西方社会极度不平等)

5.8.2.6. Life of Brian (布莱恩的一生, 1979)

5.8.2.7. Snowden (斯诺登)

Figure 37. Snowden highlighted defects on abuses of power in a Western democracy, and the discussion he sparked helped to control such abuses. To obey is to betray comes to mind. Source.

5.8.2.8. Bad things have been done in the name of freedom (以自由的名义人做过很多坏事)

Sometimes people say Ciro Santilli is naive.

Politicians are the same all over the world.

Some might have good intentions, but most don’t give a shit about anyone else.

But all must play a careful political game, and sometimes betray their own beliefs to not lose power entirely.

Even those that genuinely care might have to play such political games.

China’s problem is not its politicians.

It’s the current shitty political organization, which allows/convinces those politicians to do really bad things: Why would democracy and freedom of speech make China richer? (为什么民主和言论自由能够让中国变得更加富有？), Why would democracy and freedom of speech make China less likely to start a war? (为什么民主和言论自由会让中国不太可能发动战争？) and Democracies have less corruption than dictatorships (民主国家的腐败比独裁国家少).

Western politicians don’t care about the people either: Western society is extremely unequal (西方社会极度不平等). But at least they have to pretend a little.

By John Kenneth Galbraith, possibly based on an earlier [soviet-union] joke https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ocasio-cortez-capitalism-quote/:

Under capitalism, man oppresses man. Under socialism, it’s just the opposite.

The term evil does not make sense unless you are religious.

The best definition of evil is a psychopath with zero empathy for anyone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy although this can be better characterized as a disease or extreme personality trait.

The huge majority of those politicians are just regular dudes with a knack for politics but brought up in a fucked up political situation.

Just like you, Ciro Santilli and other politicians in any country.

See also: [politicians].

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We have to make a [xi-jinping] version of this!!!

• Hitler Has Only Got One Ball

  • 希特勒只有一个蛋小平

• Possible monorchism of Adolf Hitler

There’s even an Uncencyclopedia page for it.

We have to do a Chinese version. A starting point:

As mentioned at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reich&oldid=1054809270#During_the_Nazi_period a popular way of referring to the Nazi rule was as the:

Thousand-Year Reich

In China, a popoular expression for "Long Live" is "万岁", which means "live for ten thousand years".

This comes from old Imperial times, but applies perfectly to the Nazi/CCP analogy.

5.10.2.1. Fourth Reich (希特勒只有一个蛋, 1939)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg

• https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/博格_(星际旅行)

TODO memes?? Only one image here: https://www.techinasia.com/qihoo-acquistion-updates-sogou-talks-confirmed-chukong-rumors-denied but we need more, e.g. several top commies with Borg photoshop, or even better something showing the people as borgs as well.

Notable mentions:

• 2019 https://ihare.org/2019/08/07/when-will-the-borg-assimilate-hong-kong-is-resistance-futile/ When Will the Borg Assimilate Hong Kong?: Is Resistance Futile?

• 2018 https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/a-real-borg-collective-xi-jinpings-china-is-americas-defining-challenge-in-2019 A real Borg collective, Xi Jinping’s China is America’s defining challenge in 2019

So, have you reached the conclusion that your shitpost is worth the risk of getting blocked?

Remember that shitposts can also be creative: if you are going to insult Ciro Santilli, at least do it in a creative way, or else you look like an even bigger idiot than you really are.

A collection of shitposts for you to take inspiration from can be found at: https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues?q=label%3Ashitpost+

Also, when opening a shitpost you may mark it clearly such with the shitpost issue template which automatically assigns the shitpost label. Doing so will make you look like less of an idiot.

While we require polite replies to polite posts, no matter what which side they are defending, if a post is marked as a shitpost, things are much more relaxed and fun, and you can generally get away with telling the OP to fuck themselves without getting blocked.

Feel free to do that, but no one will ever read most of it.

If you want your comment to be read, choose your key point well, and deliver it.

It is a shame that most people who are ever able to do that are shitposters, but credit where credit is due.

If you don’t know English well enough, that’s fine though, go for Chinese, Ciro Santilli will likely understand it: Does Ciro Santilli speak Chinese? (三西猴会说中文吗？).

But if you do, use English.

Ciro is not going to learn Chinese because of your message.

It is more productive for you to write in English, so that the rest of the West can also learn something new.

Especially since it seems that most Chinese already know what you are talking about, so you are better off teaching Western people about it.

5.11.3.1. I am going to use a bunch of Chinese slangs because it makes me feel smart (我知道网络语言，我很聪明)

$ printf 'heil xi' | sha256sum
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Figure 52. A Vagina (阴道) also known as cunt (屄), is the female reproductive organ, including the naturally occurring black hole that appears in front of it whenever a picture is taken to prevent GitHub from taking down this page. Even though you’ve never seen one, there’s no need to be afraid of it, and refer to it in euphemisms like "SB". Background source and black hole source.

Not as of 2019, he has only visited once in 2012, and it was amazingly beautiful.

But he doesn’t think it is a good idea for him to do that now, in case his Visa got accepted, because he is not interested in learning about the Chinese jail system! :-)

He knows that if you don’t mind contributing to making WW3 deadlier and shut up and obey the CCP, China is already a fine place to live as much as any other developing country.

5.12.1.1. Would Ciro Santilli like to live in China? (三西猴想住在中国吗？)

5.12.1.2. Would Ciro Santilli be able to visit China before the CCP ends? (三西猴能否在中共结束之前访问中国？)

See: https://cirosantilli.com/ciro-santilli

It makes Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的) smile when wumaos consider he might be Chinese.

Does "Ciro Santilli" sound like a Chinese name?

Would a Chinese person write this tutorial primarly in English?

Would a Chinese person speak such obviously shit Chinese?

Think, wumao, think!!!

And it does not matter: Non-Chinese people should not interfere in Chinese politics (外国人不应该干预中国政治).

But his wife is.

As of 2019, oral enough for daily things, but not understand most natural casual dinner conversation or watch TV series, because they go too quickly into vocabulary subject areas that he doesn’t know. And obviously, using slangs just makes things really hard.

When it matters, and with some patience, he can make himself understood though with some analogies (archive) and a dictionary.

From the HSK vocabulary list, he estimates that he is definitely HSK 3, but not quite HSK 4. This would likely equate A2/B1 in the European system.

Phonetics wise, Ciro can’t distinguish or produce a few sounds, notably -ing vs -in and his off-tone rate is high, but it tends to not matter at all compared to his lack of vocabulary. Except for his mother-in-law, who sometimes does not understand it at all without correct tones!

Ciro reads with https://github.com/cschiller/zhongwen after Perapera died when he wants to learn new words/has patience/something is very important, and can basically understand everything in that way. TODO perapera support stopped in 2021: https://www.perapera.org/plugins/ and since browsers don’t have stable API’s it very quickly stopped working for everyone. Alternatives asked at: https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/78268/on-mouse-hover-pop-up-chinese-dictionary-browser-extension-alternative-to-perape/ Zhongwen worked, source at https://github.com/cschiller/zhongwen

When he has no patience or for larger not very important chunks of text though, he reads with Google Translate as it tends to work, and then if there is an important sentence that was translated to garbage with Perapera.

Ciro writes with a mixture of Pleco, Google translate and Googling to see if Chinese actually say the sentences that way, never Google translate alone as it would be too imprecise.

Ciro really wishes he could learn more Chinese. Ciro really loves the Chinese language. But he has other more important endeavors at the moment. There simply aren’t enough hours in a day.

Spoken Chinese is in Ciro’s opinion a relatively easy language to learn from scratch, because word formation is so often logical:, e.g.:

• volcano = fire + mountain: 火山(huo shan)

• train = fire + car: 火车 (huo che), a reference to old steam locomotives

and there is no useless crap like verb grammatical conjugation, grammatical gender, plural inflection, capitalization, etc. (latino sine flexione anyone?)

Ciro hasn’t tried to learn characters because too much effort, but he did learn some of the most common ones without trying.

Ciro initially learnt from book that come with audio recordings in the first 6-months to 1 year in 2010, but that got impossibly boring afterward, so he later moved to just basically talking as much as possible non-important things to his wife in Chinese, and whenever he reaches one that he doesn’t know that seems useful, he Plecos it up or just 怎么说 to his Ciro Santilli’s wife (三西猴的老婆) and then Pleco.

It should also be mentioned that Ciro also feels that it would be better if all countries more officially adopted English as an international language that everyone should learn for reasons explained at: https://cirosantilli.com/having-more-than-one-natural-language-is-bad-for-the-world

5.12.3.1. Chinese characters are insane (汉字是疯狂的)

Figure 54. The "fictional" Chinese character "Dou" from Uncyclopedia is roughly translated as "Impossibly complex pictogram-based writing system that takes a person a thousand thousand years to learn." and illustrates well why pictograms are a bad idea. Source.

Figure 55. The Sweet Brown Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That meme (knowyourmeme) fits perfectly into how Ciro feels about learning Chinese characters.

Figure 56. Translation of the above.

Figure 57. Chinese typewriter. As you would expect, it is insanely complex, and slow to type with. Source.

Figure 58. When you don’t know how to write in Chinese but still want to be festive during Lunar New Year. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/10f53nl/happy_happy/

Saying that someone is a radical is useless Ad hominem (訴諸人身).

If you want to say something useful, give specific reasons why you think one specific thing that Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的) said is incorrect.

Do you consider him a radical because it is unthinkable that China is not perfect?

Or just because he’s trying to take down some more websites that your dictatorship still does not dislike enough to block: China is fine as it is, stop making it worse (中国很好，别让它变得更糟)?

Don’t you think that it is much more radical to be put in jail for your beliefs and silenced if you disagree with anything the government says?

Ciro doesn’t think either China or West is perfect: [western-media-has-exaggerated-reports-on-falun-gong-for-propaganda-reasons].

He’s just listing arguments why he thinks democracy is better, e.g.: Why would democracy and freedom of speech make China richer? (为什么民主和言论自由能够让中国变得更加富有？), Why would democracy and freedom of speech make China less likely to start a war? (为什么民主和言论自由会让中国不太可能发动战争？).

See also:

• Ciro Santilli has a preconceived opinion about China that cannot be changed (三西猴对中国成见很深，无法改变)

• Ciro Santilli and this page are completely biased against the Chinese Government! (三西猴和本页完全对中国政府有偏见！)

And Ciro never gets mad. Only a slightly sad or annoyed sometimes.

But maybe no radical ever considers themselves a radical? Hmmm…​

Or maybe: The Dark Knight - Some Men Just Want To Watch The World Burn?

Ad hominem (訴諸人身).

D E E P: you-are-stupid-argument https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/shitpost

Feel free to publish any proof of your own incredible intelligence.

5.12.5.1. Ad hominem (訴諸人身)

SJW: there is a seed of SJW in Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的).

One major difference between Ciro and the stereotypical SJW is that he never engage in lengthy discussions as per Ciro Santilli’s reply policy (三西猴的回答政策).

He limits himself to listening as much as he can to learn new arguments.

So the rationale of his actions is no_ to convince anyone, but rather:

• increase the monetary cost of censorship by binding politics to tech with Screen name keyword attack (网名审查关键字攻击)

• group up like-minded people who don’t like [censorship]

See also: Ciro Santilli has a preconceived opinion about China that cannot be changed (三西猴对中国成见很深，无法改变)

5.12.6.1. Are you a SJW?

5.12.6.2. Is Ciro Santilli a China watcher? (Pekingologist, 三西猴是中国观察者吗？, Intelligence Analyst)