• Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works
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      18 hours ago

      He is saying a lot of dictators have 100% approval ratings. Misspelled it as doctor.

      And the “murder vans” is a reference to execution vans that China uses.

      Yunnan officials authorized the use of execution vans in March 2003 and the province deployed 18 vans in the same year. Zhao Shijie, president of the Yunnan Provincial High Court, said, “The use of lethal injection shows that China’s death penalty system is becoming more civilized and humane”. Amnesty International expressed concern that the use of execution vans could increase the use of executions. The Supreme People’s Court encouraged provinces to adopt execution vans in December 2003.[2]

      There is a lot of activity about the vans being talked about online I am surprised you haven’t heard of this before.

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        9 hours ago

        Your evidence for the claim “Yunnan officials have started using execution vans at the behest of the Supreme People’s Court and Amnesty International is concerned” is…

        …the Wikipedia pages for Yunnan, Amnesty International and the Supreme People’s Court.

        Did you think people wouldn’t check?

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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        18 hours ago

        Execution vans aren’t a real thing, though. China does have the death penalty, but not in this comical way, same as PLA suicide helmets. I’ve seen the claim before, but it’s ridiculous to believe them. You can see that the sources in the Wikipedia article don’t even back up what is claimed.

        As for the idea that “a lot of dictators have 100% approval ratings,” I don’t see how it matters. Fear of the possibility of something isn’t evidence of it happening.