3:06-3:07 for HK

2:57-2:58, 3:10-3:11 for Euromaiden

  • Bobby_DROP_TABLES [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Really sick of seeing people call the HK protests a psyop. Any self-proclaimed leftist needs to support the people of Hong Kong's struggle to have the freedom to murder their pregnant wives and then flee to Thailand without being extradited.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      Violence against women and fleeing to Thailand. No wonder this movement got so much support from mediocre white dudes.

    • TheGamingLuddite [none/use name]
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      11 months ago

      Such an absurd non-issue. China should have just sent in the PLA in to black bag that little cretin. The US can extradite people from fucking Romania, if China ever collapses it will be because it respected the rules too much.

    • Doubledee [comrade/them]
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      11 months ago

      Hi, could you explain the reference here? Sounds like something I might want in my back pocket if I have to talk about this topic in real life.

      • Babs [she/her]
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        11 months ago

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Poon_Hiu-wing

        Woman from Hong Kong is murdered by her boyfriend while they are in Taiwan, and her murderer flees back to Hong Kong. Authorities in Hong Kong don't have jurisdiction to charge him for the murder. They also didn't have an extradition treaty with Taiwan, nor to the mainland (he is from Shenzhen). So Hong Kong proposed a law that would allow them to extradite the murderer. This was cited as the main complaint of the protesters.

        The law never passed. HK did have jurisdiction to get him for stealing some of the victim's money and stuff, but he walked free like a year after murdering her.

        • VILenin [he/him]M
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          11 months ago

          Redditor’s thought process: “what if I murder my pregnant wife and China tries to arrest me? Egads, I must support this man!”

          • huf [he/him]
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            11 months ago

            temporarily embarrassed wife murderers

        • Joe@discuss.tchncs.de
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          11 months ago

          I vaguely remember this. Was the proposed law limited to in-person serious crimes like murder, or was it overly broad?

          I can't imagine that many of the protesters were against prosecuting a murderer, but there are laws, and then there are laws.

          • KarlBarqs [he/him, they/them]
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            11 months ago

            It was an extradition treaty. It would allow them to extradite criminals to Taiwan and the mainland, and vice versa. The protests were overwhelmingly white collar, for obvious reasons.

            • Babs [she/her]
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              11 months ago

              Taiwan, not Thailand. I have the strangest hunch these protests wouldn't have been promoted as much if they couldn't make it a Taiwan-Hong Kong-Mainland internal struggle.