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Just confused
I see the autism is still going on here.
you should fuck.
Okay boomer
The new Tory cabinet is very good
My favourite people are in the cabinet, I quite like our government
If our prime minister calls Muslims letterboxes, then how is he going to censor free speech?
It’s a load of humbug
Not he’s not
He’s going to implement a Australian immigration system
It says it in his manifesto
“Altnewsmedia” 🤣
We have the best cabinet ever because it has Jacob Rees Mogg
Interesting
Awesome!! Hopefully both sides lose
God bless Hong Kong Police Force.
If I was born 15 years earlier I would have joined them in a heartbeat.
Who are they representing? I’ve been too buried in research reports for school to follow China
That's where it gets muddy. I'll preface this with some background on myself. My wife's father joined the PLA in 1979, commissioned in 1984, transferred to the People's Armed Police (riot control, antiterrorism, disaster relief etc), and eventually to the Ministry of Public Security (traditional law enforcement for the mainland) where he retired as a "colonel" (Inspector 1st Class). Her family is a unique source on a lot of this stuff.
The HK protest originally started over an extradition law. Since HK didn't extradite for the most part. An HKer killed his pregnant girlfriend while on vacation in Taiwan. Background: Taiwan claims to be the legitimate Chinese government in exile, they lost a civil war against the communists from 1927-1949. Until the 1980s they were socialists themselves. One of those "you've lost your way! No you!" situations
Well Taiwan wanted his head, and he went back to HK before he could be arrested. HK government proposed an extradition law, half a million people ended up convinced by a different HKer (who is a student at Yale) that this would mean Ministry of State Security (mainland secret police, CIA, FBI etc all in one) coming to HK to arrest people.
So muddy already lol. You weren’t kidding
HK was conquered by the British in the 1800s, returned in 1997 and the mainland promised at minimum 50 years of "one country, two systems".
This same model exists in the former Portuguese colony of Macau, which has also been returned, and shit never happens there.
It's also been proposed for Taiwan reunification, except recently the mainland has even suggested that Taiwan keeps their military. Which would end up really just being the exact same same situation they're already in.
Some key points to understand though are that in HK there isn't censorship. You can watch porn, go on Facebook, YouTube, etc. All of that is blocked in the mainland. You can get on Facebook with a VPN and it's no big deal, but you can go to jail for pornography.
They have elections, a legislative council mostly elected by districts, part of it elected by business sectors. The only limitation the mainland puts on it, is no independence.
The early founder of the HK independence movement is actually a commie himself, they call him "long hair"
That’s actually a wild history. I only learned it was two systems after the HK protests started. Our education system is broken
You can't own a gun in HK. You *can* in the mainland, or more accurately, "can". It's about as common as owning them in Britain.
Before 97, the entire HK government was appointed by the Queen's Governor-General. HK Police existed at the time, with a lot of white people in it too. There's about 100 white HKPF who joined before they stopped taking foreigners in 94.
So in short, the whole situation's fucked and all there is to do is grab some snacks and watch the show?
Used to be a triad owned city though, 1/6 of HKers were in gangs. HKPF on orders from UK often released gang leaders and shit. Most of those old crazy ass kung fu movies with the loud snaps and noises etc were made by triad studios
I personally believe Bruce Lee was murdered by the triads for teaching martial arts to white people
Legislative council has several political parties. Oddly enough it tends to be the further right wing parties are more pro-Beijing and the left wing parties lean toward independence. But as a political candidate they can't make an open call for independence or they'll be suspended from the election.
I’m going to read more into this. It’s crazy how much I didn’t know. Felt like a Mandela effect situation for me
Shame we haven't done to martial arts what we did when we yoinked gunpowder: Make it 1000X more awesome and far beyond what it was initially imagined it could do.
I guess you don't bring a fist to a gun fight