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And Canada now has zero credibility here. Between a US created diplomatic crisis with China and our Liberal government being exposed by it's on Attorney General, China has been proven right. Our courts are still at the control of our corrupt PMO. https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/the-tories-passed-a-m...

US/Canada human rights arguments arguments are pretty galling by a NA Aboriginal POV.

I think the protester in Tianemen square had more of a chance than the students in Kent State.

Kettle And pot are black as night.

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So the entire judicial system in Canada has been coopted by the Trudeau government.

Sure thing.

> US/Canada human rights arguments arguments are pretty galling by a NA Aboriginal POV.

By this metric the US and Canada can never condemn other countries for human rights abuses. Bringing up wrongs committed hundreds of years ago is simply a distraction given what China is doing to the Uighurs.

> I think the protester in Tianemen square had more of a chance than the students in Kent State.

Somewhere between 500 - 2600 people were killed in Tiananmen square. No one knows the real number because no one is allowed to talk about it. You're really reaching here.

>I think the protester in Tianemen square had more of a chance than the students in Kent State.

There was literally ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE more killed at Tianemen square.

I was curious to if this is true. but what does the data say? there were only 4 killed at kent, and anywhere between 1k-10k killed at Tianemen square. However, for 'more of a chance', you have to consider the denominator.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Tiananmen-Square-incident

from this, we get at least 1 million people at the protests, but I dont know how many in one day, etc, so this gets tricky.

from wikipedia, I believe there was about 2k at the kent protests. so 4/2000 ~ .002 and 5k (middle of 10k) you get about .005 - but this would vary a lot depending on what numbers you use.

to be pedantic (you did say literally), orders of magnitude would suggest a multiplier of at least 10, which it doesn't seem we have. Though I concede, who knows how many really died in the Tianemen protests. Kent is pretty well known, which does say something

edit: does say something about the freedoms we have in press

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