I’m wondering if I should just delete lemmy to stay under the radar. 🤔 (I’m a US Citizen currently residing in the US, and moving out of the country is not really an option)

I feel so conflicted on this. On one hand, this is kinda like giving in to authoritarianism, but on the other hand, dissenting is kinda dangerous. 😓

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
    301·
    1 month ago

    I don’t see them coming for all of us. It’s just not practical to arrest everyone who complains.

    It all comes down to other characteristics:

    • are you someone influential or high profile they can make an example of, to promote fear?
    • do you have any connection to another country, no matter how tenuous, where they can use this as an excuse to deport?
    • are you part of another demographic bias they want to persecute, such as lgbt, where they can use this as an excuse to legally persecute?
      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        6·
        1 month ago

        Yep. You too might be a criminal, gangster, drug dealing, illegal immigrant that should be deported. If China won’t take you back, we can dump you somewhere else.

      • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
        2·
        1 month ago

        , I’m the most anti-CCP ethnic Chinese person in the US. I’m honesely afraid to getting deported then I’ll have to explain to the CCP about all those Anti-CCP stuff I said. (I’m end up in prison).

        Hating authority do be like that. I do respect the position tho…

        Some people simp america and hate China.

        Some hate us but love China…

        But the correct answers is both are brutal regimes enabling exploitation of the working people by the parasite class!

        Fuk 'em all