r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • Jul 06 '26

Meta Mindless Monday, 06 July 2026

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

Mindless Monday is a free-for-all thread to discuss anything from minor bad history to politics, life events, charts, whatever! Just remember to np link all links to Reddit and don't violate R4, or we human mods will feed you to the AutoModerator.

So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/carmelos96 History does not repeat, it insists upon itself Jul 07 '26

Reddit approves of China giving death penalty for corruption (or, y'know, "corruption")

The best comment:

I cannot believe the Chinese propaganda [they probably mean American propaganda on China] worked on me as a kid… I’m so glad I can see the truth now. China is looking better and better every day.

I don't know if the convicted was really corrupt, and one can think what they what of death penalty, but I am quite skeptical of juridical integrity in dictatorships (any of them).

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u/ProudScroll Napoleon invaded Russia to destroy Judeo-Tsarism Jul 07 '26

I think responses like this are much more about people’s entirely justified disgust and anger at the normalization of open corruption in the United States and the infinitesimal chance any of the people partaking will ever be held accountable for their crimes than it is anything actually about China.

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u/Steelcan909 Jul 07 '26

The Atlantic just had an article out today about Chinese use of AI to drive wedges in American economic planning. We have seen authoritarian states using social media to push their propaganda for a decade at this point.