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Because the HK government are Chinese puppets. They can't (and don't want to) do anything, because their communist overlords don't want to. There's too many pr
by sgjohnson 7y ago
Because the HK government are Chinese puppets. They can't (and don't want to) do anything, because their communist overlords don't want to.
There's too many protestors to dissapear them all.
- pishpash 7y agoMaking simplistic caricatures won't help the cause. There is a constitutional path towards having these demands discussed off the street, but some people have no respect for process while denouncing the same of the other side. "My way or the high way." No sympathy for either side.
- sgjohnson 7y agoIs there? Because as far as I can tell, the protesters believe that they are under foreign occupation. And I tend to side with them? “Constitutional path”? Hong Kongs self rule has been gradually eroded since 1997.
- pishpash 7y agoThey can believe that rhetorical fantasy, but HK being a part of China isn't going to be re-litigated. Everything else is theoretically possible, though the more protests try to tear down the "one country" part (anti-Article 23, 2014 protests, etc.), the more the "two systems" part becomes endangered. That's a cold-headed assessment of what has been happening since 1997.