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Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest tycoon

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Re: Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest tycoon

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I hope you're being sarcastic. Partly because the idea of civilians using guns bought at the supermarket to oppose the Chinese army is hilarious; partly because the idea that you need guns to get freedom, is general, even more laughable. Sorry.

Is the creation of the United States laughable? What was used in order to gain that freedom from Britain? Firearms maybe?

We're there tanks back then?

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#92

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Really illustrates the importance of our own second amendment.

You mean the first amendment right? The US military machine would decimate any civilians wielding weapons if they were so inclined. They wouldn't even have to use troops, they could do so with drones.

Why has the US military machine failed to wipe out a few thousand foreign insurgents (generally less well equipped than American civilians) using drones then? Why did many of my peers, troops, die?

I have severe doubts that the US could contain a civil uprising scenario, especially given international pressures. About 42% of Americans *live in a household with guns according to Gallup, with approximately 30% owning them. If even 10% of those people decided to revolt, that would be approximately 9 million people.

I'd wager that's vastly more than the insurgent military forces we've lost to in the past few conflicts we've had.

Re: Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest tycoon

#93
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"From born to die, you will always buy Li Ka-Shing's goods" "If there's God in HongKong, his last name must be Li" He and other oligarchs raise prices and exploit profits from people. HK Gov tried several times to press down house prices (build public rental apartments provided by gov, called 新界东北发展计划 ), all failed. What's the funniest part is, HK GOV plan to dismantle the golf courses for building public apartments,…

Hong Kong is consistently ranked as one of the freest societies. Casting HK in a bad light implies more daunting things about the rest of the world.

Re: Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest tycoon

#94

Conclusion: Chinese is absolutely the best language-family to make cryptic, gnomic, multi-layered allusions and sound like you've lived 100,000 years up a mountain eating nothing but fresh mountain air and magical peaches.

Obviously very unsophisticated compared to Chinese, but here is a similar vehicle by Kubernator Schwarzenegger to the CA State assembly: https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_336319

Re: Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest tycoon

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"From born to die, you will always buy Li Ka-Shing's goods" "If there's God in HongKong, his last name must be Li" He and other oligarchs raise prices and exploit profits from people. HK Gov tried several times to press down house prices (build public rental apartments provided by gov, called 新界东北发展计划 ), all failed. What's the funniest part is, HK GOV plan to dismantle the golf courses for building public apartments,…

>In this a City with the 0.539 Gini coefficient, why people hate the government on the other side than rich oligarchs? capital owns media.

This has perplexed me to no end. The straw that broke the camel's back was an extradition treaty being proposed, and not the crushing living conditions that have been worsening over the past two decades.

Sounds like you are a native. curious why you think this is the case outside of the oligarchs owning media. If that's the case i can't see why the CCP is complaining they lost control of the narrative via the press, if they never had it in the first place.

Re: Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest tycoon

#96
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"From born to die, you will always buy Li Ka-Shing's goods" "If there's God in HongKong, his last name must be Li" He and other oligarchs raise prices and exploit profits from people. HK Gov tried several times to press down house prices (build public rental apartments provided by gov, called 新界东北发展计划 ), all failed. What's the funniest part is, HK GOV plan to dismantle the golf courses for building public apartments,…

Your last post said you would never open HN again. Where is the courage of your convictions?

Why bring any personal confrontation into this discussion?

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#97

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Which she has declared to have been withdrawn.

She declared it "dead" which is not a legal term.

Yes, but politicians speaking to the press often speak in a non-formal manner. At any rate the bill appears not to be under active consideration at present.

Re: Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest tycoon

#98
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"From born to die, you will always buy Li Ka-Shing's goods" "If there's God in HongKong, his last name must be Li" He and other oligarchs raise prices and exploit profits from people. HK Gov tried several times to press down house prices (build public rental apartments provided by gov, called 新界东北发展计划 ), all failed. What's the funniest part is, HK GOV plan to dismantle the golf courses for building public apartments,…

Your last post said you would never open HN again. Where is the courage of your convictions?

Anger. Sorry for the negative emotion, and shame for my word-broken, but I just cannot stand him.

Re: Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest tycoon

#99
post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope you're being sarcastic. Partly because the idea of civilians using guns bought at the supermarket to oppose the Chinese army is hilarious; partly because the idea that you need guns to get freedom, is general, even more laughable. Sorry.

Is the creation of the United States laughable? What was used in order to gain that freedom from Britain? Firearms maybe?

It really is quite astounding that you are willfully ignoring the context of history in order to push this point about a tyrannical government. The current United States government is tyrannical and has been since its inception if you're of a certain race. And yet, the only time a large group rose up was to defend their right to enslave said race.

So yes, the creation of the United States was laughable because it established guidelines that it immediately broke.

And then we get to the point that the Declaration of Independence was in 1776 and you're still trying to apply the rules of that time to this time. Or failing to mention the foreign help from groups such as the French, which were instrumental in winning the Revolutionary War.

Re: Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest tycoon

#100
post #82

"From born to die, you will always buy Li Ka-Shing's goods" "If there's God in HongKong, his last name must be Li" He and other oligarchs raise prices and exploit profits from people. HK Gov tried several times to press down house prices (build public rental apartments provided by gov, called 新界东北发展计划 ), all failed. What's the funniest part is, HK GOV plan to dismantle the golf courses for building public apartments,…

Everyone would benefit from the protests if successful who cares about their freedom and not having their eyes gauged out my mainland Chinese government henchmen because they insulted Winnie the Pooh.
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