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I'm Just Trying to Think About How Can Respond to This?

There have been a lot of videos circulating on Twitter again who knows which ones are real but it's been confirmed now across many publications including the New York Times and Washington Post that there are significant protests going on in China. I know authoritarians and authoritarian squeeze and the tighter they squeeze the more galaxies will slip through their fingers as Princess Leia pointed out. And sure enough China apparently is squeezing their citizens a bit too hard. These protests seem to be related to a fire in Oroom T which killed at least 10 people if not more. They're literally locking people into apartments and their homes and have been for years.

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