Why don't Americans protest corruption like the people of Hong Kong have?
Why don't Americans protest corruption like the people of Hong Kong have?
Gabriel Ramirez
Mason Murphy
Why bother nothing changes just people looking to be lazy and not contribute to society.
Anthony Cruz
Can someone give me the short version of this hong kong thing? Why are there protests? Do they want to go back to british rule or something?
Nolan Gutierrez
Dylan Gray
read a book nigga
Matthew James
So, Hong Kong was a British territory for a long time since the Opium Wars, they only stopped being fully British very recently. Until now, individuals living in Hong Kong lived with the common protection of British law to back them. That is, every person owns their own liberty, and has certain rights and freedoms which the state cannot inhibit. This is very different from the totalitarian atheist government of Beijing, which sees humans as existing primarily to serve the state and individuals owning very few rights. Freedom of speech is discouraged through both soft power and hard power with a combination of "social credit scores," internet censorship, and police crackdowns. After the UK agreed to withdraw from the city, there was a condition that for 50 years they would be allowed to retain their way of life and stay capitalist like they had always been. Then after the 50 year transition period the territory would belong fully to the Beijing government. Why people are protesting is because Beijing has basically full control of Hong Kong politics today, and individuals are losing personal liberty at a rapid rate, especially with the surveillance state of CCTV coverage combined with chinese facial recognition technology. And then they wanted the authority to extradite these activists and spirit them away to unknown prisons in mainland China to be tried by a judge there? It's not wonder people decided to say enough is enough and stand up for their right to a democratic voice.
Andrew Morris
What is Google?
Christopher Murphy
Its a condom
Jaxon White
Cause they still think the 2 party system gives them a say
Anthony Cox
A fair election between two candidates is always better than a sham election between all the candidates chosen by the central committee
Kevin Diaz
Because Americans are fat, stupid, lazy and they hate their own country.
Hudson Robinson
communism was never an option in america
Carson Moore
>It's not wonder people decided to say enough is enough and stand up for their right to a democratic voice.
They're going to be squashed like bugs
Blake Garcia
Because the usa's controllers give the population just enough economic freedom to fool them into thinking they are in control of their own lives.
Christian Ortiz
You mean a sham election between the candidates chosen by two central committees
Tyler Roberts
>They're going to be squashed like bugs
Probably, yeah. That may end up working in favour of the people though, in the long run. But who knows.
Josiah Richardson
Because in the US any symbol of freedom is quickly labeled a symbol of hate, and suppressed
Samuel Thomas
Alexander Watson
hahaha
what a fat gringo pos you must be
Juan Collins
Because half the country supports the corruption
Joshua Watson
thats the sad truth
Andrew Rivera
I pray that it doesn't come to that, and I pray that all men and women on Earth receive the liberties which are owed to them, such as the right to free expression and free worship.
Carson Cruz
the right to defend oneself and your country against totalitarianism
Justin Mitchell
Amendment #1
Amendment #2