Protests against the ChiCom government’s draconian Zero-COVID policy erupted in major cities across China over the weekend, a rare display of defiance against Chinese dictator Xi’s regime over the brutal lockdowns that have inflicted untold suffering on regular folk and offered MAGAmericans a chance to draw deeply exaggerated and outright false parallels to the “repression” they faced from “Faucism” over the first year and a half of the pandemic, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The unrest kicked up a notch after lockdown restrictions in the eastern city of Urumqi caused delays in a fire department’s response to a blaze at an apartment building in which at least 10 people perished because they were physically locked inside the building, a horrific tragedy that no doubt more than a few MAGAmericans think is on the same level as having to wear a mask when they ordered lunch at McDonald’s. “Xi Jinping, step down!” one man shouted at a protest in Shanghai, literally risking his life to do so, a man sure to be considered a spiritual brother by an obese Michigan militia member who shouted the same to Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 for a few hours before driving home to play Call of Duty. Chinese censors scrambled to remove references to the protests from social media in a move not at all reminiscent of Facebook and YouTube’s algorithms deleting videos claiming COVID-19 vaccines make people’s skin turn magnetic.