• Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org
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    5 months ago

    This 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.

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        5 months ago

        Not really what I meant no. I meant it’s a shame that the government crushed and diminished any free thought. Follow the governments exact desires or be stomped out. It doesn’t exactly sound very free to me. The footage coming out from the protests years ago were disgraceful. No government should treat people like that.

        If the remaining people are happy under those conditions, then by all means they can have at it. I just think it was wrong for the government to force Hong Kong to be something it wasn’t

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          If the remaining people

          According to the article around 180000 left which is around 2.5% of the population of Hong Kong 7.2 million. There basically wasn’t that many people who emigrated to cause a shift in perception.

          As many have suspected it was the issue of cost of living that caused the protest. Now with easy access to more affordable goods & services across the border, the problem mostly fixed itself. If you relied on outside media narratives convincing you otherwise, you would come to the wrong conclusion.

          To quote Steve Jobs

          People don’t know what they want until you show it to them.