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Vietnam sentences real estate tycoon Truong My Lan to death in its largest-ever fraud case (apnews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I’d much rather not give the state the right to sentence anyone to death at any point.

Not every country has a genocidal fascist regime as a government. Viet Nam is definitely not one of those.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Can you trust it would stay that way? There is no such thing as immunity from fascism.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

That's a pretty sloppy "you're right but i'm still right" answer. Of course that's not going to happen, they're communists. It's liberal governments that end up going fascist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

USSR collapsed and looks at Russia now. Just because they are communists now doesn't mean they won't become fascist in the future.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You were close, then you took a sharp U turn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

What? I was talking about Vietnam, just because they are communist now doesn't mean they will stay communist. I didn't mean that Russia is communist now, perhaps I wasn't clear in phrasing.