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No, clearly the Chinese government has your family hostage and that's why you aren't out protesting.~ Didn't you read the article? ๐
If your comment (the top-level one) was supposed to be sarcasm, you need a /s tag because there are people actually being serious saying that "it's a conspiracy, couldn't be any other possible explanation" stuff.
But also, the "hostage" thing is not entirely false, just very exaggerated. They only take your family "hostage" if you are like a leader of a protest or something. But I doubt they care if you are just some forum user that has no followers and "protesting" online. They got too many dissidents within their jurisdiction to care about those abroad.
Geopolitics: The art of taking real issues and twisting them so much that one group believes all the lies, and another group believes none of the truth.
I prefer the snark mark actually, but sure, I'll be sure to ruin the joke by using Reddit sarcasm syntax next time.~
EDIT Actually that's not fair, I'm just mad lol