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I m in HK and I don't know what to think. Between protestors destroying the streets like monkeys and the country punishing everyone using this as an excuse, we're well surrounded :D

Hong Kong shouldn't be independent but is China the right country for us, is how I jokingly troll both extremes.

End of the day nobody cares, we're still discussing who elect the mayor of the city and people are talking like we're losing insane amount of representativity. We had not much to begin with :D

I d be more interested to move on and start discussing how we elect the president of our country now that we all agree we should be patriotic ;)

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I am also a foreigner living in HK. I am with you on this one. HK was and continues to be awesome.

> I d be more interested to move on and start discussing how we elect the president of our country now that we all agree we should be patriotic ;)

I take this as evidence that you are planning to overthrow the current government? You do realise posting this is an offense under the National Security Law?

You'd be better off in the UK.

I'm also French, so I'd rather starve in a chinese goulag than eat carrott sandwiches under the rain in London

Only if you have millions , they are definitely not interested in poor HK folk that are living in cage homes.

The criterion is to hold a BNO passport. You don't have to be a millionaire for that. Three million Hong Kongers are eligible.

There were 6.489 million people in Hong Kong when it reverted back to China , they should have given everybody that before they left.

Wasn’t the offer PM Johnson made to HKer’s without any wealth/asset caveats?

https://www.gov.uk/british-national-overseas-bno-visa/how-mu...

The Home Office never does anything without wealth caveats and significant fees.

It seems to be a moot point now - China simply refused to recognize a BNO passport as a legal document so you can't leave.

Most BNO holders also hold either a HK passport or HKID, making it possible to leave in either way. China (and HK) not recognizing the BNO passport doesn't really change much for most people. I do believe there was a story here lately about some people only holding a BNO passport, not sure how that would work out for them.

Ha! You’re getting downvoted, but I really hope you do get to elect a Chinese government someday. My dad thought he’d never see the USSR crumble, so you never know what might happen! Best of luck over there.

> start discussing how we elect the president of our country

lmao

> start discussing how we elect the president of our country

>lmao

Shill logic is always easy to spot xD and its always hilarious.

Is HN so mainstream that political bot are sent to spam their propaganda here?

Well I'm not sure what propaganda you see here. I find it a difficult subject to discuss here, how to elect the president rather than have him dumped from the sky, and it seems that there's always a more urgent patriotic crisis to solve before we discuss direct popular representativity of the executive.

If it's propaganda to ask the communists to give us the right to vote, then the country has progressed :D

> destroying the streets like monkeys

And from an NPR interview covering the book 'Less Than Human'

> Nazis referred to Jews as rats.

> Hutus involved in the Rwanda genocide called Tutsis cockroaches.

> Slave owners throughout history considered slaves subhuman animals

Dehumanisation. It's so frequently accompanied by dehumanisation.

You are truly intolerable, in the exact Karl Popper sense and we shouldn't tolerate a word you say.

Well honestly when you see them tagging the universities with the V for Vendetta logo, you wonder where the brain is.

But I d never call them cockroaches and I find it shocking the police does, if that reassures you... and I dont really dislike monkeys, just I find them a bit more disorganized than I wish political activists aiming at a higher level of government would be.

I dont disagree with the beautiful cause, just the ugly means, like for the communists.

Based on one of your previous comments looks like you are from France and living in China

> I come from France where we have the tradition to use saints' names (mine is a very classical example) and I moved to China and got a daughter there with my local wife.

It might not be correct to comment on local HK.

Hong Kong is in China :) And yeah I m French by birth but I m gonna be able to vote this year when I become a HKer by heart, it turns out, thanks to the delay !

So I'm getting politically excited, shouldn't I ?

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