Hong-Kong Protests

Gatekeeper

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This make me laugh! So I thought I share it with you guys, this thug in the street having a complete incoherent rant in both Cantonese and english!

But notice how many "journalists" he has attracted to his cause!

But I guess while he is doing this, he is not beating up old guys and women‼

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manqiangrexue

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I heard from a friend of a friend from HK, you can call them a "True Believer"
They said they have no problem with PLA intervention in HK because it would destroy Chinese economy due to sanctions.
The other scenario is Western powers intervention (I assume they were not aware of Eight Power Alliance).

I told my buddy, how messed up that thinking is. Destroying the Chinese economy means plunging countless people into poverty, for what? How is that freedom? It would destroy the HK economy too (response was "Doesn't matter as long as we get freedom")

Starting a war over this is even crazier. Unbelievable, you think it is okay for your family (and countless others) to potentially die for your politics! (Though I believe they expected their family to escape to Canada because they are Canadian citizens and have money)

I told my friend that I will give them the foreign intervention they want, but probably not the kind they expect, lol
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You should give it to him straight. The world economy will go into recession and be destroyed before China's is. No military can defeat China in China. There is no endgame where Hong Kong becomes independent or China becomes democratic. Hong Kong will be under the CCP and there is nothing anybody can do to stop it. His cause is dead and kicking like a headless chicken and the only thing up to them is how ugly they want to make things for themselves before they lose. They don't have the power to take China down with them; they can only decide how low they want to go by themselves. Tell him that. I wanna see what he says.
 

solarz

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I heard from a friend of a friend from HK, you can call them a "True Believer"
They said they have no problem with PLA intervention in HK because it would destroy Chinese economy due to sanctions.
The other scenario is Western powers intervention (I assume they were not aware of Eight Power Alliance).

I told my buddy, how messed up that thinking is. Destroying the Chinese economy means plunging countless people into poverty, for what? How is that freedom? It would destroy the HK economy too (response was "Doesn't matter as long as we get freedom")

Starting a war over this is even crazier. Unbelievable, you think it is okay for your family (and countless others) to potentially die for your politics! (Though I believe they expected their family to escape to Canada because they are Canadian citizens and have money)

I told my friend that I will give them the foreign intervention they want, but probably not the kind they expect, lol
This picture is not appropriate (and probably shouldn't be posted), but I think it is funny in this context (I don't believe it violates any rules, but take it down if it crosses any lines)View attachment 54549

Thank you for sharing. The way these people think have a lot in common with Islamic Jihadists. To them, "freedom" is a religious concept much like "heaven".

I think Beijing should intervene. We are already seeing the US putting sanctions on Chinese companies over the flimsiest excuses, so sanctions are coming whether Beijing intervenes in HK or not. The pace of the sanctions will only be dictated by the readiness of the American administration, not by any events in HK or elsewhere. If the US wants to slap sanctions on the rest of the world, they are welcome to do so!

Western media has long accused China of imprisoning 2 million Uighurs in Xinjiang, so I say Beijing should start building vocational centres in HK, as many as it would be needed. No need to actually "build" them, just re-purpose some useless buildings, like those schools that preach anti-China views.
 

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Blizzard backlash escalates following Hong Kong supporter ban

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Blizzard is facing increasing backlash following its decision to exclude Chung 'blitzchung' Ng Wai from professional Hearthstone competitions for showing his support to the Hong Kong protests.

In a video interview he gave after a win during the Hearthstone Grandmasters, Ng Wai shouted: "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our age!"
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to remove the player from the event, cancel his prizing and ban him from official competitions for a year.

US senators Marco Rubio (R-Florida) and Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) have since both expressed their concerns concerning Blizzard's decision.

Wyden
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: "Blizzard shows it is willing to humiliate itself to please the Chinese Communist Party. No American company should censor calls for freedom to make a quick buck."

Rubio also reacted via
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, saying that "China [is] using access to market as leverage to crush free speech globally. Implications of this will be felt long after everyone in US politics today is gone."

The backlash also came from Blizzard's own employees. Plaques with the words "Think globally" and "Every voice matters" displayed at the entrance of the company's HQ in Irvine - California - had been covered yesterday, former employee Kevin Hovdestad
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Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro-Hong Kong Gamer

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Blizzard backlash escalates following Hong Kong supporter ban

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Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro-Hong Kong Gamer

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This "backlash" will pass quickly. America has half the attention span of a fruit fly; China remembers. Do not insult those who make a point of remembering.
 

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Blizzard is 'assessing the situation' after Hong Kong protest ban

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Blizzard is considering its options as fans around the globe react to its
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Hearthstone esports player Ng Wai Chung, known professionally as Blitzchung, after he voiced support for the protests in Hong Kong during a live post-match interview. Two days after pulling down his gas mask and calling to "liberate Hong Kong" on the livestream, Chung's winnings from the Grandmasters tournament were rescinded, he was banned from pro play for a year, and ties were cut with the two Taiwanese casters who happened to be on-camera at the time.

"It's a violation of free speech," Chung told Engadget. "I am pretty sure I won't get that kind of punishment if my speech was pro-China-government."

Blizzard is assessing the situation for now, a spokesperson told Engadget. The studio hasn't otherwise spoken up about the issue since posting its decision to ban Chung on October 8th.

Blizzard's reaction to Chung's words is extreme. The
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Hearthstone Grandmasters rules prohibiting "any act that, in Blizzard's sole discretion, brings you into public disrepute, offends a portion or group of the public, or otherwise damages Blizzard." However, many fans and critics attribute Blizzard's response to its relationship with Chinese organizations, which are ostensibly opposed to the anti-China protests in Hong Kong. Particularly, Tencent Games, regularly one of the top 10 companies in the world by revenue, owns 5 percent of Activision Blizzard.

Tencent has a much larger stake in Fortnite studio Epic Games -- 48.4 percent -- though that company today said it
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any player for expressing views on politics or human rights.

"The protests in Hong Kong have lasted for almost four months," Chung said. "I love Hong Kong, this is my home where I live and grow up. I can't just sit there doing nothing and watching our freedom being destroyed bit by bit."

For months, the streets of Hong Kong have been alight with protesters and tear gas. At first, millions of residents rallied against legislation that would have granted China the power to extradite individuals in the region, a move that opponents said would've violated Hong Kong's autonomy. Hong Kong is a special administrative region tied to China, but with its own limited democracy, as opposed to the mainland's communist party. Although that legislation was withdrawn, the movement has now grown to "five demands," including full democracy in Hong Kong.

The 2019 protests don't exist in a bubble. The dramatic and dedicated response from protesters follows years of strife between Hong Kong residents and encroaching Chinese authority. The 2014 Umbrella Movement saw 100,000 people occupy the streets outside of Hong Kong's Central Government Complex for more than two months, in protest of proposed changes to the region's electoral system that would have implemented one-man-one-vote, but with a candidate pre-screening process similar to that used by the Chinese Communist Party. The changes failed in 2015.

Thirty years on, Chinese authorities refuse to acknowledge the People's Liberation Army's slaughter of hundreds of people at Tiananmen Square in 1989, censoring any mention of it on the mainland. Hong Kong, meanwhile, has held a candlelight vigil for the massacre every year since 1990. In August of this year, Hong Kong police attacked people at the Prince Edward subway station after a protest, and the violence was
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Prince Edward, the Umbrella Movement, the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and a widely-suspected mob attack on protesters in Yuen Long are all highlighted in a new, user-made Hong Kong protest video featuring one of Blizzard's own characters, Mei from Overwatch. The video, posted to Reddit on
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, is an edited version of Mei's background story -- she's canonically Chinese and her narrative arc is well-suited for protesters' goals. Creators have superimposed phrases like "FREE HK" and "Five Demands" in the video, making Mei's struggle Hong Kong's.

 

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Blizzard is 'assessing the situation' after Hong Kong protest ban

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What is this? Previously, you blamed me for adding a meme here or there to liven up a post and here you are for the second day posting cartoons that are pro-riot? Is this all you've got left? Is a 2 minute cartoon of a girl and an ape in the arctic (for some reason) supposed to mean anything? LOL
 
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