• EmoThugInMyPhase [he/him]
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    711 months ago

    I read about this when I was like 14 lol. I remember going “wow china is so evil” then a few months ago I find out a US prison had mass graves in fhe backyard.

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    4611 months ago

    The source: a guy who looks like Adrian Zenz but wearing a mustache and Groucho Marx glasses who goes by “Schmadrian Schmenz.”

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    3011 months ago

    Probe to the dark side of the moon: “China copied this.”

    Nazi-era execution van: “China developed this.”

    • @[email protected]
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      311 months ago

      Really no problem with that? I mean deathpenalty instantly makes you a shit state anyway, but potentially having mobile units that can respond quickly to deathpenalty “worthy” crime?

      I don’t see what could go wrong. /s

      • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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        1811 months ago

        but potentially having mobile units that can respond quickly to deathpenalty “worthy” crime?

        You mean like a SWAT team? WTF are you talking about?

      • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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        Even if the by-all-indications-fictional vans were real, the claim is that they’re replacing dedicated static facilities with a smaller number of mobile ones that would just go and set up at a prison as-needed to carry out sentences.

        Except the entire thing falls apart with even the slightest scrutiny. Just look at all the things being claimed: that Bad Country is supposedly frivolous and trigger happy and doesn’t value life (unlike the noble and civilized US, where police up and murder over a thousand people a year, there’s a rabid push for more death sentences, there’s a bipartisan consensus eagerly baying for more genocide and ethnic cleansing and both parties breathlessly accuse each other of not being bloodthirsty enough, and mass death and suffering is just casually accepted as necessary for the holy line to go up), but that they then wouldn’t also make sure to have dedicated, reliable facilities on hand for it and instead would rely on a sketchy ambulance with a chair and a poison syringe cabinet; the implication that it would be a rushed fast-response extrajudicial thing is also at odds with the idea of having a mobile facility that’s performing what’s supposed to be a “humane” execution method - if they’re so bloodthirsty and barbarous (“because of their brainpans, you see…”) why bother with something that’s both absurdly convoluted but also really shoddy and sketchy instead of just up and shooting someone?

        It’s nonsense: there’s no reasoning behind it nor material motivations and the whole idea is contradictory and absurd.

        • SweetLava [he/him]
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          711 months ago

          I didn’t really get that out of it at all, but I developed a skill to see past a lot of the garbage. It was fear-mongering and overall just a scary way of saying China has reduced the use of death penalty, there are better mechanisms in place to prevent unlawful/unnecessary use of death penalty, and a drive to replace gunshot execution with lethal injection. The “victims” included are simply multi-million dollar fraud (essentially) and an abused kid that went on to (cw: violence) rape and kill.

          You are right, in that there seems to be no widespread use of this van in the event that it is seriously used.

        • @[email protected]
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          111 months ago

          There is a lot to unpack there.

          1. My comment is not about if they are real or not, tbh I don’t give a fuck this will not be the reason why I think the CCP sucks ass.
          2. Who the fuck is talking about the US? Did you not read the part where I said every country with the death penalty sucks? This is just plain whataboutism.
          3. There are many problems with the death penalty (in any shape or form) and in my opinion it is very likely a mobile execution center would exacerbate the problems. More technical mistakes, more false executions and of course more potential for abuse, especially from a party that does not have a great human rights track record.
          4. Why bother? For example because it would be stealthier than an execution squad. Or for the same reasons the Nazis invented the Gas chamber: Because it’s more humane. Of course not towards the victims but towards the people doing the killing. It’s easier to cope this way.

          I might actually agree with your last point, it does not really make sense. But on the other hand, does it need to make sense to be true? I don’t think so.

          But also like I said before: I don’t care and neither answer will change my mind about the CCP.

          • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]
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            Who the fuck is talking about the US?

            Don’t play fucking dumb. All this media hyper-fixation and constant public discourse on the “apparent” evil of the “Cee Cee Pee Pee” is because China has geared up to be the US’s main geopolitical and economic adversary in what is looking to be a period of increased global instability. So any time anyone brings up anything about how bad China is it comes with the clear implication of: “And this is why the morally upright Liberal Democracy of the US needs to remain a global hegemony!”

            So pointing out that even if this crap about China is true the US doesn’t have a fucking leg to stand on in terms of morality is completely valid, because why is any American concerning themselves with the splinter in the eye of a country they have no goddamn influence over when their own nation has a fucking redwood tree jutting out of their eye socket.

            • @[email protected]
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              111 months ago

              What are you talking about? No one here was defending the US.

              If you can not grasp the concept of two thing being true at the same time I think we should end the discussion here.

              • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]
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                311 months ago

                Two things can be true at once, but so far nobody has been able to cite any evidence besides “vibes” that the execution van thing is true. So why are you so concerned with this thing maybe happening in another country and not all the shit defiantly happening in your own?

                • @[email protected]
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                  111 months ago

                  My comment is not about if they are real or not, tbh I don’t give a fuck this will not be the reason why I think the CCP sucks ass.

                  I am not. As I explained here. This whole thread is just about why this would be a terrible idea (anywhere btw) and how people in this thread don’t see the problems associated with a mobile execution unit.

          • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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            For example because it would be stealthier than an execution squad

            lmao absolute racist mush brain

            Why would they have to be sneaky about executions if they’re handing down death sentences in public courts? Do you even think about the shit you say for a fucking instant, or do you just see a different skin color than yours and start coming up with ways to describe them as sinister?

            “execution squad” holy fucking shit

            Just pure racism. I’ve read everything you’ve had to say about this subject and it’s absolutely vapid. Racism is the source. Like I said in the first place, your opinion is 100% vibes based.

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              Your assumption here is that China has a properly working fair justice system, which a lot of signs point against. If you would have read the context of the comment you would know that the idea of “execution squad” actually came from the previous comment

              instead of just up and shooting someone?

              This has nothing to do with racism.

              • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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                311 months ago

                No, dumbshit. The ‘assumption’ that you project onto me has nothing to do with whether China would need SECRET AND STEALTHY execution methods for PUBLIC TRIALS. Your racism is on display in how you need to make everything sinister because other.

                So don’t fucking lecture me about not understanding context or intent, you fucking illiterate.

                China has a properly working fair justice system, which a lot of signs point against

                And your racism is on further display here as you dishonestly hold an outside other to a much, much higher standard than you hold your own government which is 100x more deserving of this criticism. That’s what you’ve been crying ‘whataboutism’ for this entire time. People pointing out that you’re an unthinking racist. Speaking of reading comprehension being too great a task for your anglo brain pan.

                • @[email protected]
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                  111 months ago

                  I am not even going to answer to the first part because you are just making yourself look ridiculous.

                  However I am going to say that your second part makes you even look even more ridiculous. You just cannot grasp the concept of other people being able to do two things at the same time.

                  I am indeed capable of criticizing a foreign government AND my government at the same time.

                  However in this context one has nothing to do with the other.

                  So I am going to say the line again and again until maybe you start to understand it.

                  Whataboutism

                  Just because my government (which btw you have no idea where I am from) is shit does not in any shape or form excuse any shit behavior of ANY other government.

                  My initial take was never about the Chinese government and simply pointed out what a shit idea a mobile execution unit would be.

        • @[email protected]
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          311 months ago

          lmao this might be the most valid comment under mine But I am still against the death penalty under all circumstances ;)

      • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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        Maybe articulate what the actual problem you have is instead of using a weight bearing /s

        What’s the difference once you cross the line into using the death penalty whether you use an office or an ambulance? The vibes?

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          There are many problems with the death penalty (in any shape or form) and in my opinion it is very likely a mobile execution center would exacerbate the problems. More technical mistakes, more false executions and of course more potential for abuse, especially from a party that does not have a great human rights track record.

          I answered this in a different comment.

          edit: because I suck at editing

          • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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            and in my opinion it is very likely a mobile execution center would exacerbate the problems

            Well your opinion is based on nothing but vibes. You have no ‘why’. It’s worthless.

            more false executions and of course more potential for abuse

            Based on what?

            especially from a party that does not have a great human rights track record

            Said the westerner with absolutely zero irony lmao

            That is to say: yes they do. Compared to anybody you’d classify as ‘the good guys’ based on your racist propaganda filled brain, they’re fucking saints.

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              Well your opinion is based on nothing but vibes. You have no ‘why’. It’s worthless.

              I mean I can look up sources and historical references if you promise me to look at them. But I have a strange “vibe” you won’t and I don’t feel like wasting halve a day just to then be called

              the westerner with absolutely zero irony lmao

              which is btw whataboutism again “But what about all the bad stuff the western countries did and are doing”, yes that is also bad but not the point here. If you cannot understand that two things can be true at the same time there is no real point in continuing this conversation.

              Compared to anybody you’d classify as ‘the good guys’

              again just more whataboutism

              they’re fucking saints.

              lmao

    • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]
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      811 months ago

      Could you imagine being able to spend a day at home with your family before the execution van comes? Seems more humane if anything

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      4611 months ago

      China should learn to do the death penalty in the civilized way: a botched lethat injection that leaves the injectee writhing in agony for hours before finally passing away.

    • rio [none/use name]
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      I’m against the death penalty but if you’re gonna do it then stop being squeamish about it and use a bullet to the head or a guillotine. Fast, definite, painless, and honest about what it is.

      Edit: replied to the wrong person

  • PauliExcluded [she/her]
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    Well, I tried to remove as much bs as possible and make things more neutral without raising any red flags for the editors of Wikipedia. Hopefully, that’s a bit better and they don’t revert it. pain

    • quarrk [he/him]
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      711 months ago

      I just saw your changes. Nice. I’m not asking you to do to anything more, but as it stands, it still seems unnecessary for a whole article to exist. It could very nicely fit as a single sentence here. Deletion would be ideal, but that is expecting a lot from Wikipedia admins.

      • PauliExcluded [she/her]
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        411 months ago

        I agree. I really don’t see where an execution takes place changes the fact capital punishment is legal. It’s not like there’s an article over execution facilities in the US or Russia.

        However, deleting is a long bureaucratic process where you have to argue with a bunch of no-life randos. Many editors consider it bad form to delete and reword large parts of an article then nominate it for deletion. This is viewed as intentional sabotage and bad faith, even if all you do is delete the unreliable sources. This article touches on this crap.

  • Rom [he/him]
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    5911 months ago

    The former Director of the State Food and Drug Administration of the People’s Republic of China Zheng Xiaoyu was executed in an execution van on July 10, 2007.

    Sources a NYT article. Any guesses as to what the article actually says?

    His father has no sympathy for Zheng Xiaoyu, the State Food and Drug Administration’s former chief, executed on Tuesday.

    Nothing about a van or any method of execution. Anything is true when you just lie about it I guess.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      4111 months ago

      If you were to give NATOpedians the benefit of the doubt (big “if”), it’s possible that the NYT originally did publish an unsubstantiated claim about the method of execution and later retracted it without apology or notice. It’s part of the Westoid media’s MO at this point, just look at the recent Hamas r*pe allegations.

      • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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        Maybe but the page revision shows this reference was added in 2024, the person editing this had access to the current version. All of the links there are shit even the old ones are not any better like this its a story by some caricature named cracker who seems to have built an entire career of being the “Chinese correspondent”, citing “No First Name” Zhang telling an outline of why China might need this. No facts or anything and the only other source is surprise surprise a literal San Francisco based NGO “working to free political prisoners” lol.

        This is the standard of wikipedia.

      • Rom [he/him]
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        511 months ago

        Or anyone from Purdue Pharma for causing the opioid crisis.

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    In the spirit of not being one-sided and not jumping to conclusions I tried to look into the few sources Wikipedia (English and German) cites and this “mobile execution van” concept in general raiden-source

    Most of the western articles about this either had no source for their claims it-is-known or cited some official somewhere in China or some employee in a car company under a partial name or pseudonym. Also not a lot of concrete claims someone could check out in many of these articles, more like storytelling weirdly

    But I really don’t know anything about the death penalty in China and I don’t speak Chinese blob-no-thoughts so I’m stuck with reading these shitty western sources

  • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]
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    Any editors here who wanna nominate this shit for deletion? sisyphus

    This article stays up and they delete Big Floppa’s article tails-pout (only on the English NATOpedia, ofc)