Can someone explain this to me, because all this negativity has me wondering...

Thought experiment: imagine if the Occupy movement involved protestors waiving banners of Xi Jinping and the CPC, what would every media outlet immediately conclude? That China is behind this social agitation...

The Hong Kong protests originally WERE an organic assembly that were pissed off about the introduction of an extradition bill by the CPC (which they have since rescinded) but the fact that it has portrayed by American media outlets as this classic Democracy vs Totalitarianism battle (a cold war-era narrative) should absolutely make you pause...

Reminder that Hong Kong is not ruled like the mainland is. It's one party, two systems--The goal of Hong Kong is to be bastion of the free market economics and legal systems to help bring over Western business.

Call it empty gestures all you want

Empty in the same sense that the House decides to recognize the Armenian Genocide the same week that Turkey invades Syria. In some sense meaningless fluff, but also to silently support an agenda...

/r/Diablo Thread Parent