Notice how there is next to no discussion about material conditions before and after China's tightened grip on HK other than a few people saying that basically nothing has changed and that the city is still perfectly fine for most people other than covid annoyances that exist basically everywhere now.
imagine china taking over your city and not even getting a glorious people's revolution of affordable housing and working class power and instead you just have to continue to exist in this modern banal hellscape we've all grown accustomed to
a damning indictment of china if we are being honest
Didn't the Hong Kong Assembly recently decide to demolish golf courses in order to build public housing, and every developer there had to just sit down quietly and take it?
really? based.
I think I remember reading that it caused a schism in the protest moment, since a lot of ordinary hong kongers are getting sqeezed by extreme rents, but they are also wary of saying anything that can be interpreted as a praise towards the mainland.