Wow, I did not know that about pension payouts.

Here's the WeChat article:

freewechat.com/a/MjM5MTcwODQ2Nw==/2652065601/1

The following article shows a sample calculation of a lump sum payout, which would supposedly amount to ~45K RMB after earning a ~15K monthly salary for three years:

www.beijingrelocation.com/[...]

Veteran China-watcher Bill Bishop has tweated several items in the last 12 hours or so that are worth checking out.

1. Advised kuhnadians to get out of Dodge. Similar advice has been coming lately from less credible commentators, but this is the first time I have seen it from someone relatively mainstream.

2. On a different topic, retweated some concerning videos allegedly from a neighboring city.

Obviously please be mindful of the environment if posting any replies here.

A possible alternate explanation for seemingly routinized upvoting: maybe at least some of the posters you reference have accumulated social capital on the forums.

This is grotesque. Do you believe that newborn babies, for example, have a karmic debt to work off? Are you really suggesting that they (not to mention the other innocents) are somehow deserving of "karmic justice" in the form of "guns, bombs, wars, poverty, incurable illnessss...." ?

I am not particularly a fan of the Democrats, and I don't have trouble believing somebody posted something that was misleading (although I can't find the postings the OP references). If so, it would have been sufficient to simply point that out, and maybe remind people that attending political gatherings here is unwise.

But the original post goes well beyond that -- it amounts to an attempt by an expat to intimidate other expats, which is gross and despicable. And it's common knowledge that the local authorities don't give a hoot what Westerners say about Western politics. So leaving aside the meeting aspect, the insinuation that misleading posts about American voting procedures could result in legal sanctions is transparent BS.