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This blogger is nearly seven thousand miles away from Hong Kong, and in no way personally affected by the chaos there. But even so. The mobs of rioting activists should calm the "F" down. Perhaps they do not realize what an exemplary police force they have? And that once they start targeting families of officers they're in a dangerous grey zone where their next step could have repercussions they cannot foresee and would not ever want.
Neither the mainland cops NOR the Taiwanese police forces are as little corrupted or as tolerant.

[Heck, many of those police in the hinterland are outright gangsters.]

The Hong Kong Police are still constrained by rules.
Kindly remember that. It could change.

By the same token, pretty much the entire Hong Kong government should resign. They've lost control, lost any moral authority, and lost whatever little respect the public may have ever had for them. Their failure is monumental.
They are little more than Peking's running dogs.

Carrie Lam might better leave town.
And consider a name change.

The mainlanders cursing over the internet, and voicing opinions, should shut up. Not your horserace, and y'all have no stake in the outcome, other than being able to go there for shopping sprees and uncouth hick behaviour.
Piss off, pipe down, and keep kissing Peking's diseased back-ends.

Same goes for the folks making anonymous death threats. It may take a while, but they can be found. Not necessarily by the authorities.

Jackie Chan can shut up too. His voicing of support for the party line did not win him any friends outside of the mainland, and given that those hosers have pirated his movies anyhow, there's no point in catering to them.


Donald Trump suggesting that President Xi meet with the protesters was, of course, sheer gibbering idiocy. Ain't gonna happen. Despite his sterling credentials as a pragmatist and relatively honest mob boss, Xi remembers what happened the last time a political leader met with student activists.
About which we shall not speak.

Besides, he has neither the language, nor cultural framework, to make it worthwhile.

Hong Kong people largely despise the northerners, quite justifiably.
Communist party officials have an anti-Cantonese agenda.
Mainlanders tend to be ignorant vulgarians.
And Donald Trump is an idiot.


As an illustration of how easily any fraught discussion in Hong Kong can get out of hand, here's a video of a conversation between a bicyclist upset at a road closure in Mongkok and several excedingly patient members of the Hong Kong constabulary.

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[SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJZb0FLyMQw.]

My sympathies are with the entire frikkin' lot of them.

That bicyclist should talk to Trump.

He's eloquent.

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