3:06-3:07 for HK
2:57-2:58, 3:10-3:11 for Euromaiden
Really sick of seeing people call the HK protests a psyop. Any self-proclaimed leftist needs to support the people of Hong Kong’s struggle to have the freedom to murder their pregnant wives and then flee to Thailand without being extradited.
Actually, it’s about ethics in fleeing to Thailand journalism.
Violence against women and fleeing to Thailand. No wonder this movement got so much support from mediocre white dudes.
Hi, could you explain the reference here? Sounds like something I might want in my back pocket if I have to talk about this topic in real life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Poon_Hiu-wing
Woman from Hong Kong is murdered by her boyfriend while they are in Taiwan, and her murderer flees back to Hong Kong. Authorities in Hong Kong don’t have jurisdiction to charge him for the murder. They also didn’t have an extradition treaty with Taiwan, nor to the mainland (he is from Shenzhen). So Hong Kong proposed a law that would allow them to extradite the murderer. This was cited as the main complaint of the protesters.
The law never passed. HK did have jurisdiction to get him for stealing some of the victim’s money and stuff, but he walked free like a year after murdering her.
Redditor’s thought process: “what if I murder my pregnant wife and China tries to arrest me? Egads, I must support this man!”
temporarily embarrassed wife murderers
I vaguely remember this. Was the proposed law limited to in-person serious crimes like murder, or was it overly broad?
I can’t imagine that many of the protesters were against prosecuting a murderer, but there are laws, and then there are laws.
It was an extradition treaty. It would allow them to extradite criminals to Taiwan and the mainland, and vice versa. The protests were overwhelmingly white collar, for obvious reasons.
Taiwan, not Thailand. I have the strangest hunch these protests wouldn’t have been promoted as much if they couldn’t make it a Taiwan-Hong Kong-Mainland internal struggle.
Such an absurd non-issue. China should have just sent in the PLA in to black bag that little cretin. The US can extradite people from fucking Romania, if China ever collapses it will be because it respected the rules too much.
“Revolution of Dignity” is such an incredibly jingoistic phrase. I can’t decide if it came out of some neolib focus group or just a room full of fascists.
e: found some research about this, it was literally the nazi party of Ukraine that popularized the phrase
https://hexbear.net/post/411806
Sounds like some nonsense
would come up withI swear that name didn’t even come around until years afterward, that it was just called the Maidan or Euromaidan Revolution for a long time. But I don’t really know, maybe I missed it.
Maybe the propagandists learned their lesson after they hyped up the Arab Spring and that whole thing brought nothing but misery.
some neolib focus group or just a room full of fascists
what’s the difference?
Lanyard vs totenkopf
When you’re definitely not the bad guys.
I must be an opponent of choleric temper because this is the most irritating shit I’ve ever seen
‘pretend to be weak’ ok sure that explains all the terrible fucking decisions the US leadership has made. They seem weak as fuck, which means they really must be strong! In convinced, where do I sign up?
