They “promise” to stop harassing you if you do it. Do you take this deal?
You’re asking a lot of questions like this. Are you okay?
Sorry, my thoughts have been spiraling.
I’ll take a break. Sorry, didn’t mean to be annoying lol. It’s just that there are questions that come to mind and I just have the urge to ask it to get it off my mind.
You’re not annoying at all. Actually I’m happy to see activity. I mean are you worried about being persecuted as a dissident?
I’m an American Citizen, but I wasn’t born here, and I have been criticizing both my current government and my former government.
So I’m just afraid that one day, I’d have to either: (1) Be forced to recant all anti- 2025-US-administration/anti-trump comments, Or (2) If I get deported to my former country (which I no longer have citizenship in btw), I’d have to recant my anti-CCP comments, and do the public apology and all that stuff.
Both scenario would make me very uncomfortable. But it could become reality. So I kinda just wanna hear some perspectives.
Are you posting under your real name? Have you taken step to protect your identity?
LOL that’s the Steins;Gate Main Character’s Pseudoname 🤣
You should watch it.
And no, I never posted political opinions under my real name. I did have like a reddit account without using a VPN, but my opinions were less “spicy” and it was mostly anti-CCP oriented rather than anti-US-administration. The account has been since deleted.
In 2013, I posted on Facebook, urging my Czech friends not to vote for the eventual winner of their Presidential election, Milos Zeman. I called him and inept drunkard, and compared to him to the then Slovak President, Ivan Gasparovic. The next day, the Slovak police paid a visit to my parents (I’ve been living abroad by then), and offered not to create problems for them if I deleted the post, because Mr. Gasparovic was offended by being compared to Mr. Zeman. As soon as my parents called me, I dropped everything and deleted the post.
This was in a presumably democratic member of the European Union, and I didn’t even think twice. I’d probably self-censor if I lived in a dictatorship. Sorry; I’m no hero type. I do have my opinions and express them when able, and don’t when it would cause problems for me or my family. I think I’m just an average person.
Sorry; I’m no hero type. I do have my opinions and express them when able, and don’t when it would cause problems for me or my family. I think I’m just an average person.
No need to be sorry, most of us aren’t heroes either.
the f we are living for then. To live in a place that people in power tell others what is allowed or not allowed to be said… Sounds like soviet union to me.
I’m not saying you are wrong or anything, or what you did was wrong. I’m not hero too, but thats way above of what i consider to be tolerable.
Can you trust them to follow through on their end of the bargin?
Depends on country. For example: People’s Republic of China usually lets go of small-time dissident after they publicly apologize and say that they got “tricked” by the “evil west” or something like that, at least that has been their M.O. for a while. From my understanding, and I do not support CCP btw, PRC isn’t as murdery as compared to, say, Russian Federation.
(High profile ones do get disappeared tho 👀)
This question is subjective, it really depends. But I mean, if you refuse, its guaranteed a bad result, if you do, you might get off on a slap of wrist. It’s your choice, and this question being vague is the entire point; so… given that you can’t be certain of the results, what would you do?
100% I’d recant. More enjoyable to not be locked away as a political prisoner, and way easier to overthrow the government that way, too.
Great question. The denouncement doesnt cost you anything, but everything to be gained - your family safety, but there is no reassurance that the promised would be held by the other side. And it might be used again as, black mail. I’d denounce myself and move my family away if possible as soon as possible
My answer is “more weight”!
Based The Crucible reader
+1
