…No discussion of Western hypocrisy is complete without Ursula von der Leyen, the unelected queen of the European Commission and an unequivocal master of the genre.

There is a video, widely circulated at this point, of von der Leyen being heckled by a member of the public. The man asks a difficult question. She responds with a smile and a line that was clearly rehearsed:

‘If this was in Russia, he would be arrested.’

The crowd laughed.

The man was arrested.

Crosspost from https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11847282

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    24 days ago

    They lied to us about Cuba, Palestine, Korea, Vietnam, Venezuela, Hawaii, Chile, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Honduras, Haiti, ANC/Africa, Peru, the Dominican Republic, but surely they won’t lie about China!