A Southern California mayor has agreed to plead guilty to acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government, and has resigned from her city position, officials said Monday.
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P.S. these fucking Tankies getting desparate enough to show up a lot on Lemmy World now that Piefed has helped people avoid the plague that ML is.
Could I get some details on that PS? What happened?
This one of the weirdest ongoing stories right now. Mostly because she isn’t even denying it.
She’s just like, straight guilty plea, yeah I did it, it was me, I’m the secret agent. Doesn’t she understand American politics? You’re supposed to just deny, delay, defer until you get to the next election cycle.
Better to be imprisoned here than executed in China. It seems like weird politicking to just come out and admit your crime, but sometimes that is actually better than being sent back to or dealing with your home country.
Ahhhhh that’s a good point
Well, she did deny it at first last year, but when it came time to plea she chose guilty. It could still be China’s plan, though, as it is sparking the flames of Racial and Political divide in California, right now.
Wang and Sun operated the news website U.S. News Center, aimed at the Chinese American community, and were instructed by Chinese government officials to post pro-PRC content on it.
So was she acting as a Chinese agent in her role as mayor, or just as the operator of a website posting PRC propaganda?
Charges are for actions before her term as Mayor.
She took orders from the Chinese government and her election was aided by that adversarial nation, Sun was even on her campaign committee as Treasurer. That alone is more than enough grounds for these charges and is properly illegal.
Foreign agents, former or current, are barred from office by US Laws. Sun got 4 years, Wang is looking at 10.
Man that’s like nothing compared to what Trump and co got up to with Russia (why he was first impeached, I watched the whole trial and holy shit so much fucked up dealings were happening) … It’s kind of wild how one dude became president - twice 🤮 - and this lady is getting prosecuted.
That’s justice for you. /s (which I shouldn’t need because italicized can mean sarcasm but I’ll put it just for all us special types)
As long as those foreign agents aren’t from Israel or rich.
Can someone please open an investigation on this person?
https://www.lilytangwilliams.com/
She perennially runs for US Congress and claims to have “fled communism for the freedom of the United States”… and is a huge Trump supporter
What were her policies? Was she trying to build HSR?
Her Wikipedia page says she was Republican until 2022 (the year she joined the city council), but then switched parties. (Her work for the PRC was between 2020 and 2022.)
Homestar Runner?
Technically all of her current crimes predate her time as Mayor of Arcadia, so the story doesn’t have a whole lot to do with that, but to answer your question:
She was a part of the Arcadia Lion’s Club and Arcadia Association of Realtors, meaning she likely promoted land development and sale to investors. She assumed office in 2025 and was removed from most responsibilities the same year as these allegations came forward and she denied them at first.
What’s “ML”?
The Lemmy.ml instance. If you see anyone with a @lemmy.ml after their name, there’s a better than 50% chance they think North Korea is a pretty cool palace :>
And that both sides of the current US political divide are exactly the same, yep, exactly the same. The really boring ones who are kinda slow to get with the times and then the ones who are destroying the institutions of government as fast as legally possible and also faster than legally possible. Yep. The same.
Oh I’ve met those. Honestly they are so absurd it’s hard to not think it’s sock puppet accounts.
In all fairness “kinda slow to get with the times” is at least a slight underrepresentation of how culpable democrats are for the current political moment 😅
They are not the same. And they are also clearly almost exclusively accountable to their donors, and for a very hot minute now have done nothing to meaningfully adress the countries class-based dysfunction (that disproportionately impacts minorities) while championing minorities in almost exclusively superficial ways that have laid the groundwork for the current cataclysmic anti-inclusionary social movement thats feeding our rapid decent into neo-fascism.
Slow to get with the times is more than just being charitable. They kinda suck. They are not a monolith, no group is, but there is good reason why people call them controlled opposition. I’d like for people to be wrong about that and for them to fix their shit. Because fixing the Democratic party still feels easier than uprooting the deeply entrenched two party system, and there are candidates that make me hopeful… But I’m not holding my breath :/
Ok
Right now you’re on Lemmy World, another instance is known as Lemmy ML. All of the Fediverse Instances are built to communicate with each other unless specifically blacklisted, which is common. Lemmy World uses the reddit-style forum framework called “Lemmy” which is developed by Lemmy ML admins and owners, which is problematic because they’re “Tankies” who are well documented to think trans people are a western psyop, that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is justified, that North Korea is one of the most democratic and free nations on earth, and that there is no Uyghur Genocide but instead a large sudden “birthrate decline” specifically an only in Xinjiang.
I am on an instance which uses a framework called “Piefed” which is developed with different codebase by different people than Lemmy.
Yeah one told me it was feminism that caused trump to get elected.
.ml = Mali
The Lemmy instances use it as an abbreviation for Marxism/Leninism
Oh makes sense
