Almost all of these "national security" trials are done in complete secret by the Adjudicative Committee, which is a political CCP body that oversees the public legal system. Its exact workings are a state secret, but it generally reviews all court proceedings and defers to the public court for most matters. However for any case which involves foreign affairs or national security, there is a high chance that the Adjudicative Committee will hold a national security trial in secret and deliver the verdict to the appointed trial judge, who will read the verdict into the public record.
You don't even have to say it. Go hand out "free Taiwan" pamphlets in tiananmen square and I promise you that you will be arrested extremely quickly and tried in secret. Your "trial" will be a judge telling your lawyer the charges, verdict and sentence to an otherwise empty courtroom. If you are very lucky you will be deported with time served.
Source: I have family in China who are quiet dissidents.
Sucking Xi Jinping's salty taint.
I demand that Biden solve the climate crisis by personally eating ten babies every day.
Well then it's a really good thing that it's not just a single nation backing Ukraine.
Calling you an asshole is not authoritarian
Pride flags have never been used as a symbol of hate?
That's not true, I actually am trying to turn your kids gay because I know it makes you mad.
*Haskell
It's just simple abuse. It's no more complicated that that. Trump is not some genius, he's just an abusive asshole with a megaphone.
The whole point is to constantly be testing the loyalty of supporters, while punishing detractors. For the supporters, the constant "attention" is a reward. Every opportunity to say "there are three lights" is making themselves part of the lie. For the rest of us, the constant, unavoidable gaslighting is exhausting, and the visible, ever present degradation of our civic institutions is horrifying. Yet we are forced to either witness it and confront it day after day if we are to oppose it, or check out and let it happen, just hoping it ends quickly.
Socsa
joined 1 year ago
Thank mr skeltal