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.

      • مهما طال الليل
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        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.

        • @Hackworth
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          227 days ago

          They provided a bunch of links to examples. You provided name calling.

          • @[email protected]
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            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?

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              57 days ago

              I saw Pi in the theater.

            • @[email protected]
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              36 days ago

              This works with nearly any real number,

              1. You mean natural numbers, not real numbers
              2. You can disprove it by showing any link with casualties greater than 35. Based on your logic, should be very easy.
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              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?

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                05 days ago

                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

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                06 days ago

                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.