CHINA

chorus is "rise up! rise up!"

ha that's the last thing the Party wants now.. 'stay down' more like it

funny you say that, there were anti-lockdown protests where people used the national anthem in this exact way. was going to say "subverting" it but they weren't really. think this sort of thing is par for the course for revolutionary parties that gain power, france has a similar thing with their national anthem I suppose.

I've read about Chinese democracy activists who do something similar with the Chinese constitution... *yes* the People's Republic actually has a constitution that ensures all sorts of rights & freedoms to its citizens, and is essentially ignored by the communist party, and will continue to be ignored but at least these folks are able to legally point out the hipocrisy

they're called like neo-constitutionalists or something