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Old 08-16-2019, 03:08 AM
 
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Hong Kong truly is a tale of 2 cities. It is such a small island but separated by the ultra rich and the working poor. Young people who work for financial companies easily get paid very well. Taxes are super low. However if you don't work for any big financial companies there or own any properties then you have to work your butts off. There's no welfare system. Rents are high many poor share a rental together with their extended family. While the ultra rich live in the most expensive property on earth. Hong Kong is the Asian Dubai.
HK has problems but that doesn’t give anyone in HK the right to vandalize, or organize any movement to break HK away from china. Don’t like HK, you can always leave.
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Old 08-16-2019, 03:20 AM
 
Location: Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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HK has problems but that doesn’t give anyone in HK the right to vandalize, or organize any movement to break HK away from china. Don’t like HK, you can always leave.
Same can be said for China maybe they should leave and give Honk Kong it's independence.
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Old 08-16-2019, 03:26 AM
 
Location: Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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LOL,beat me to it. And also as it's already been said China doesn't give a dried rat turd in a tornado what any other country or its leaders say or don't say about what they do within their own borders. Soon we will see tanks and other armor in the streets of Hong Kong accompanied by unquestioning troops with AKs and crew served weapons.


All the protesters have is sheer numbers which will only serve to provide a densely packed and target rich downrange for 7.62x39 and 7.62x54 rounds. The bodies everywhere may make it hard for troops on foot to advance, track rigs will just keep on rolling and pack down the path for the infantry. And none of the crews or foot soldiers will bat an eye.


If every one of the protesters had an AK and a vest full of mags and maybe some RPGs scattered through them, hand grenades and such it would be a pretty good fight. The armor would have to use their cannon a lot more. But RPGs can take out armored vehicles even tanks.


But as it is they stand no chance. China is going to clean house on Hong Kong. They are not Taiwan. Mores the pity.. Hong Kong Chinese are seriously wishing they had a 2A right now. That's for sure.
So China will mow down 2.5+ million of it's own people while they are posting this to the world wide web in live time and High-Def seems like a bad P.R. move IMO
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Old 08-16-2019, 05:12 AM
 
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Tweet from Virginia rep. Don Beyer:

https://twitter.com/RepDonBeyer/stat...61875123720192


Dictators love Trump: he does not criticize brutal regimes for human rights violations.
Do you mean like when Obama completely abandoned the attempted insurrection in Iran during his admin?

The left has completely forgotten this- it was truly amazing that Obama left them hanging (literally) as he supported and loved Muslim nations, even Iran.
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