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[–] [email protected] 170 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The suspects were identified earlier this month as a 38-year-old man named Zheng and a 55-year-old woman named Wang, both from the Chinese autonomous region of Inner Mongolia.

So after all this time, the Mongols finally breached the wall...

[–] bfg9k 27 points 1 year ago

Oooo I hate those Mongolians, they ruined my shitty wok

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

How come every time we Chinese build a wall, Mongolians gotta come knock it down?!

[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Crossposted here because the tankie admins of lemmy.ml censored this comment and banned my lemmy.ml alt for "racism" because of it:

"Yeah, only the CCP is allowed to destroy China's cultural heritage!"

At this point it's probably better to move the larger default communities like World News, Technology, Memes, etc. to less extremist instances, because you never know what kinds of discussion the ideologues over there are censoring.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

Dam, you beat me to making that comment. I will at least add an article for those interested:

https://www.nspirement.com/2018/08/26/chinas-destruction-of-cultural-sites-during-the-cultural-revolution2.html

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In many ways, lemmy.ml is worse than reddit. On Reddit we mostly only had to deal with power tripping mods. On lemmy.ml we also get power tripping admins in top of everything.

[–] scottywh 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The admins on Reddit have been shitty for a long time too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Not denying that, but for the most part they weren't involved in censoring random comments on random subs.

[–] JJROKCZ 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That’s a shame no matter what you think of the Chinese government. I’ll never be happy to see any piece of humanity’s history damaged or destroyed

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why mention the chinese government at all ?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Probably because it's in China... though this seems like an unnecessary jump.

[–] JJROKCZ 9 points 1 year ago

Some people are willing to write off anything bad happening to China as something they deserve due to communism. I think one of humanity’s greatest achievements should be exempt from that

[–] Vodik_VDK 6 points 1 year ago

I’ll never be happy to see any piece of humanity’s history damaged or destroyed.

Not to worry, there's still more than enough Great Wall of China to go around.

[–] baatliwala 14 points 1 year ago

Would be nice if someone could do this to the Great Firewall as well

[–] expatriado 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

now those damn mongols are going to rush in with their sexy calvary archers

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Damn you mongolians!!!! Stop attacking my shitty wall!!

[–] Subverb 8 points 1 year ago

I don't understand the picture in the article. They trot the suspects out in handcuffs for a posed photo-op and then blur their faces.

That doesn't make sense.

[–] AceBonobo 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How deos the great wall affect wildlife in the region? Maybe retrofitted some openings isn't a bad idea.

[–] zik 7 points 1 year ago

I think whatever wildlife was affected by it suffered their main disappointment a couple of thousand years ago.