Hong Kong has entered a state of mass civil disobedience

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Richard Aoki is your avatar... wtf :mindblown:

China is an authoritarian capitalist state.

I don't even know who he is. Just thought he looked cool. fukk it, who he is doesn't represent my views and what I stand for.

So these people would rather be ruled by the British than their own. Because I didn't see them protesting when the British were in charge. Not to mention the fact that Hong kong belongs to China. It's part of China and they have every right to reclaim their territory.

On the other hand I do understand why they might want some form of democracy compared to mainland China, but at the end of the day the Chinese have every right to reclaim whats theirs.
We DO NOT want to be ruled by the British. The thought of having another white man in the seat of power in our city disgusts me. They've done enough.


China granted us our own government, and branded us a special administrative region. They retain sovereignty over us, but technically we do not form a part of mainland China. Our laws, customs, culture and way of life differ vastly. Given our high degree of autonomy, this just doesn't feel right.
 

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someone wanna tell me whist going on here?

-- In 1984, and as part of the negotiations of handing HK back to China, China and UK sign an agreement giving HK a high degree of autonomy and allowing it to operate under a British system for 50 years after the 1997 handover. The ''one nation, two systems'' compromise.

-- HK residents remain suspicious of Chinese future plans. Many favour full democracy....many are also pro-China (don't know the split).

-- (2008) China announced it was considering allowing direct elections by 2017.

-- (2014) China says it will allow direct elections in 2017, but voters will only be able to choose from a list of pre-approved candidates. Pro-democracy campaigners begin wilin out.
 

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-- In 1984, and as part of the negotiations of handing HK back to China, China and UK sign an agreement giving HK a high degree of autonomy and allowing it to operate under a British system for 50 years after the 1997 handover. The ''one nation, two systems'' compromise.

-- HK residents remain suspicious of Chinese future plans. Many favour full democracy....many are also pro-China (don't know the split).

-- (2008) China announced it was considering allowing direct elections by 2017.

-- (2014) China says it will allow direct elections in 2017, but voters will only be able to choose from a list of pre-approved candidates. Pro-democracy campaigners begin wilin out.
Sooooo...big bank taking little bank :heh:

good luck to hong kong :mjlol:
 

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I mean, Hong Kong was always Chinese. And not everyone on the Island is pro-democracy. They're just very loud.

@joeychizzle what would you say the split is?
In recent years, there has been a massive influx of mainland Chinese people, coming down, taking our jobs, clogging our streets, taking our allocated school places (kids are allocated spots here, because schools are at capacity), giving birth in our hospitals and claiming benefits. Mainland Chinese students come to our universities and receive tens of thousands of US dollar's worth in grants each while local students struggle. They are often loud, often low class, hate us for living a better life. They are seen as a nuisance. Worse yet, the government allows this daily desecration of our city because the officials in the Chinese capital have paid them billions. Due to the increasing number of classless millionaires and rising GDP, they come down and throw money in our faces, acting as though money gives you power and authority. The worst of all this is that they are greatly boosting our economy, so we are forced to yield. It's insulting.

I say the vast, vast majority of Hong Kong citizens are highly against this. Everywhere I go, all I hear and see is complaints and hatred for the mainlanders. The better side of me acknowledges that all are equal and deserve equal opportunities, but the realistic side of me sees the changing landscape. When I was still studying in the UK years ago, Hong Kong was a beautiful place. It is still beautiful now, but it is tinged with the smell of lower-class citizens dirtying our place.

I say the ratio of people that support democracy over pre-elected puppets is about 85:15. There will always be those who support the flipside.

My ex was from China though. The only one I ever loved. Deeply. (no drake though)
 

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This is only about 40 minutes bus ride from where I live brehs, shyt is getting real, like GTA stars
I hope my brehs don't bow down to this communist bullshyt, we want to elect our own leaders, not their puppets.
(however, anyone we elect could be a plant, or be swayed with money, land and bishes)
To answer your question.. Nah. Obama doesn't give a fukk about us.
I could catch a bus and go see this shyt for myself, but seeing it in 1080p on the news is enough. Some of my brehs getting tear gassed and pepper sprayed though
Kinda glad this isn't American police tho :mjpls:


watching this on tvb though and I saw a old dude challenging the riot cops, he was about that life :wow:
 

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watching this on tvb though and I saw a old dude challenging the riot cops, he was about that life :wow:
He fights for the future of his homeland
iron-fist.JPG


them riot police look ridiculous with their tiny round riot shields
 

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The British Empire never gives up controlling former colonies from behind the scenes. They clandestinely recaptured their prized gem back in 1913/1933. Mainland China/Beijing may prove to be too formidable for the monarchy and her Parliament puppets. Those Opium Wars are still stinging in their consciousness. Also, Scotland shook them up this month.

Democracy and the banksters have about half or three quarters of western countries in serious debt or close to bankruptcy.
News of the derivative bubble bursting any day now has been reverberating on the www recently.
 

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I do hope the people of Hong Kong retain control. 2 of my closets friends are from Hong Kong and they are vastly different from Mainland Chinese. I still don't see the stereotypes of mainlanders. The ones in my university are cool, nice, and clean people. My biggest gripe with them is their hate for people that broke off from Mainland China like Hong Kong and Taiwan. I remember one time at a school function, there was an international festival and everyone paraded with their flags on a school auditorium stage. They called up Taiwan to the stage and when they were going up to fly the flags someone from China grabbed their shirts and I had to tackle the Chinese guy down. Needless to say, they had to close the curtain because of me since both the Bolivian, Chinese, and Nepalese flags fell to the ground (everyone was holding a flag).
 

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This sucks we all knew it was going to happen. Hopefully the people of HK can retain their autonomy.
 

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TEA LEAF NATION
The Revolution Will Not Be Instagrammed
Mainland Chinese felt no effects from the protests roiling Hong Kong -- until Beijing pulled the plug on another social network.
As Hong Kong's streets rock with protests and what many feel is a draconian police response, Chinese cyberspace is erupting with bitter complaints about yet another instance of blanket censorship. On Sept. 28, Chinese web users were furious over the shutdown of popular photo-sharing service Instagram, which went suddenlyoffline in China following the eruption of pro-democracy protests in the special autonomous region of Hong Kong that police tried to quell by volleying tear gas at the crowds.

Though specific user statistics for mainland China were not available, the platform had been increasingly popular among Chinese over the last few years, especially since so many other foreign social media sites were unavailable. (Instagram has more than 200 million worldwide users, most of them outside of the United States.) The shutdown did not appear to be a technical glitch, as Instagram remains available in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China. It's not the first time that Instagram has been targeted by Chinese authorities. In July, the Instagram app suddenlydisappeared from China's Andriod app stores, though service remained available for those who had already downloaded it.

While the exact reason behind the shutdown was not immediately confirmable, it seemed likely that the sudden mainland disruption was linked to the flood of images related to the Hong Kong protests on Instagram. Those protests stem from anger over Beijing instituting requirements that candidates for the former British colony's head of government, the chief executive, must be vetted by Beijing before voters can weigh in. Wen Yunchao, a New York-based Chinese blogger and free speech advocate told Foreign Policy that he thought the link was obvious. Before the shutdown, "many Chinese people" were "using Instagram to share pictures of Occupy Central," he said, referring to a civil disobedience movement that has organized the ongoing demonstration. Using the hashtags #hk, #hongkong and #occupycentral, users have been posting images of support and solidarity, including pictures of a yellow ribbon against a black background and slogans such as, "We cannot keep calm because Hong Kong is dying." Instagram user @Edwinahipwellwong posted a message saying, "We are in tears but not because of the tear gas." Another posting under the username @Aobhinnzhang posted a picture of a young man in a gas mask with the caption: "Don't throw tear gas -- we can cry by ourselves." Chinese authorities, which have not yet reported the protests in major state media, likely do not want such images to be the way mainland netizens learn of the events.

China regularly scrubs the Internet of content the government considers potentially destabilizing. After deadly ethnic riots erupted in Urumqi in China's remote Xinjiang region in 2009, the government blocked access to Twitter and Facebook. Both sites remain unavailable in China. Instagram, and its parent company Facebook, did not immediately respond to emailed requests for comment.

On China's Twitter-like social media site Weibo, many web users cursedthe shutdown, while others posted sobbing emoticons or screen grabs of their blank Instagram feeds. One Weibo post, shared more than 4,000 times, noted that Instagram now ranked among the numerous other overseas web services that have been blocked in China in recent years: "Instagram has finally joined the family of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Line and Snapchat. Farewell." A raft of comments cropped up underneath that post including this sardonic observation, a nod to the virtually offline existence of people in neighboring North Korea: "Can't laugh at North Korea anymore." Another wrote in a separate posting: "Instagram, like Malaysia Airlines, has suddenly disappeared."

Prominent Beijing rights activist Hu Jia told FP via Twitter that Instagram has been extremely popular among his friends. The well-known activist and artist Ai Weiwei counts among China's "power users."

Hu said the platform was embraced by many inside China because unlike Facebook, Twitter and Youtube, it hadn't yet been blocked.
Hu said the platform was embraced by many inside China because unlike Facebook, Twitter and Youtube, it hadn't yet been blocked. Chinese authorities didn't previously pay much attention to Instagram, Hu said, because officials didn't see a photo-sharing site to be as threatening as a text-based social media site. But that changed several months ago when people started to share more Dalai Lama photos, Hu said. People also used the platform to share images of commemorations in Hong Kong related to the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement and a protest march in the territory on July 1. "These are events that the authorities do not want people in China to see," Hu added.


A handful of Chinese Weibo users blamed the Hong Kong protestors for getting their Instagram service axed. But many Chinese appeared oblivious to the situation in Hong Kong, unsurprising given the current mainland news blackout on the escalating situation and the scrubbing of Weibo messages that mentioned Hong Kong. Weibo also was blocking searches for the keyword "Instagram," forcing users to resort to calling the service "Ins" in order to grouse about the shutdown.

Most mainland Chinese still likely know nothing of the Hong Kong protests, now continuing into the early hours of the morning. But online chatter about the Instagram blackout could backfire on Beijing, leading otherwise indifferent Chinese web users to feel the personal impact from events transpiring far away -- and to begin asking why yet another popular online tool has, at least for now, been taken away.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articl...l&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
 
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