alcoholicorn ( @alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml ) 28•3 months agoWe never get a satisfying end to these things; The same people who lied about Iraq and Libya still have jobs in the respectable media.
They’ll never acknowledge that western-backed riots opposing the extradition of a murderer might have been somewhat misguided, instead we get “actually Xi Jinping successfully crushed their hopes and dreams by building inexpensive mass transit”.
Alsephina ( @Alsephina@lemmy.ml ) English18•3 months agoDamn communists improving their people’s lives to earn their support
How evil and authoritarian
Sagittarii ( @Sagittarii@lemm.ee ) 17•3 months agoTravel to the mainland has been made more compelling by new infrastructure that cut travel times in half between the cities, a booming array of entertainment choices and low prices
But he added the integration could raise questions about the city’s identity
B-but what about… checks notes… Hong Kong’s unique identity of overpriced goods and services 😢
Alsephina ( @Alsephina@lemmy.ml ) English18•3 months agoThey really did the fucking “but at what cost” meme
yeather ( @yeather@lemmy.ca ) 15•3 months agoGood, defying Xi is the most important thing the young generations can do.
pop ( @pop@lemmy.ml ) 22•3 months agodidn’t read the article. did you?
davel [he/him] ( @davel@lemmy.ml ) English19•3 months agoEvil authoritarian […checks notes…] democracy! Stick it to the will of the people, fellow kids!
Alsephina ( @Alsephina@lemmy.ml ) English17•3 months agoBro did not read the article
cordlesslamp ( @cordlesslamp@lemmy.today ) 13•3 months agoBro didn’t even finish the headline.
carl_marks_1312 ( @carl_marks_1312@lemmy.ml ) 14•3 months agoThe Shenzhen frenzy dovetails with Hong Kong residents’ growing willingness to work and live in mainland China. A survey of people under 40 in the city by the Hong Kong-Guangdong Youth Association conducted last year found 66% of them are now open to employment across the border, tripling from 22% in 2020.
China genocided HKs culture so that more ppl stop realizing how bad cummunism is
gnuhaut ( @gnuhaut@lemmy.ml ) 7•3 months ago guyrocket ( @guyrocket@kbin.social ) 4•3 months agoIt really is a Brave New World, isn’t it?
Pollux ( @Pollux@leminal.space ) 2•3 months ago Megaman_EXE ( @Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org ) 2•3 months agoThis is something I didn’t expect, but I should have seen coming. When people left Hong Kong for Britain, I guess it should have been expected that the general opinion on the government would shift. It’s a shame.