[salmon30salmon]

Because by saying there is any equivalence between an activist in HK who is risking their life, or a opposition party member in Russia who has already had an attempt on his life and a woman who was charged with a crime that was on the books before she was charged, and which is something she has admitted to doing, is to downplay the risks the folks fighting true fascism take

[bandyaboot]

It’s true. Petty prosecutorial corruption is far too common everywhere for it to be labeled as “something you’d expect to see in Russia/China/etc” given the far worse things that go on in those places. But, please, let’s stop pretending this is something other than petty, obvious political corruption of prosecutorial power. We get it, she probably did something that is a crime by the letter of the law. What’s important—and I think you know this—is whether the decision to go after her so aggressively was the result of her going public about the covid data. For me, the suggestion that that isn’t the case here is comically naive or obtuse.