A court in China has sentenced a man to death for killing 35 people last month by driving into a crowd, in an attack that raised national concern about mass killings.
Fan Weiqiu was venting his anger because he was unhappy with his divorce settlement, the court in the southern city of Zhuhai said in handing down the sentence on Friday. The victims were exercising at a sports centre at the time of the attack. Fan pleaded guilty to endangering public safety by dangerous means, a court statement said.
China has a habit of limiting body counts to maximum 35. There were likely many more.
Source?
Really? O_o
Yes. If I had access to a dataset, I’m sure I could show a peak at 35 reports. But I don’t, and I’m not sure one exists, given China’s tight control over anything that might make them look bad.
What in the weird ass sinophobic nonsense…
Galwan clash: 35 casualties.
Xinjiang riots: 35 dead.
Zixing storms: 30 dead, 35 missing.
Yuxian mine explosion: 35 dead.
Bird flu deaths hit 35.
35 new covid deaths.
I don’t know what the deal is, maybe it has to be reported to the government differently if there are more than 35 casualties, but it’s suspicious how many times an incident has exactly 35 casualties.
This is not the evidence you think it is. Plus there might be a missing cultural context here. Arabs for example use multiples of seven to denote uncountable. Seventy in the Quran often just means “numerous”. Now I don’t understand Chinese language or culture and I bet neither do you. But I know that I don’t know enough about them, you meanwhile pass judgement willy nilly. Seeing Westerners talk about my culture cluelessly with confidence makes me think something similar is happening here. Even without any cultural context, 35 is a common number when you have over a billion people. If only China had mass shootings we could probably test this theory and see if they’d report a higher number, but I’d rather people don’t die.
This is next level schizoposting.
They provided a bunch of links to examples. You provided name calling.
I feel like I stepped in the crazy pile. This works with nearly any real number, with any country above 10 million people.
Did neither of you watch the movie 23?
I saw Pi in the theater.
Did you try googling to see if you were right? I quickly tried 60, 50, 41 and 46 and got hits for each. Just a simple “china 41 deaths”.
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/41-killed-when-sleeper-coach-bus-catches-fire-in-china/article_d576df07-2c38-5f66-a06b-60b872dbaa30.html
I’m not saying the 35 is true, just how you could disprove it easily. And it worked!
You’re welcome.
I think we’ve found a paid shill.
They can’t give up no matter what and will throw anything at the wall to make it seem like they came out on top.
Looks like he’s desperate because he’s probably compensated based on how well he can convince people on china’s greatness.
Isn’t that right?
By implying that China has enough excess wealth to be paying people to keep the mystery of their 35 number by shitposting on an instance with 500 people you’re doing more to make them seem rich and powerful
Yes I’m paid to cover up the magic number thirty five that those sneaky Chinese use to hide numbers. You caught me you dastardly western intelligentsia.
Yeah, I rest my case.
When is your shift over?
Are you talking about yourself?
Oopsie, the pen broke, guess we’ll have to stop counting. 🤷♂️