I do hope you're learning the obvious lesson here, @marwilliamson. Imperialists have been pushing an agenda in Hong Kong and you are actively facilitating that agenda when you boost their narratives.
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So you think the Chinese Communist Party are the good guys there, and the protestors are just shills for the imperialists? Hardly the "obvious lesson."

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Caitlin Johnstone
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"So you're saying the CCP are the good guys??" Hollywood has conditioned you to look for "good guys" and "bad guys" in every conflict. Your impulse to assess whether a nation on the other side of the world which poses no threat to you is "bad" is itself the result of propaganda.
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Caitlin Johnstone
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"Caitlin you need to understand that the CCP are not the good guys." It will never stop being weird to me how many grown adults respond to mature geopolitical analysis by babbling about "good guys" and "bad guys" like children watching a cartoon show. Hollywood is brain poison.
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Hong Kong's 'pro-democracy' movement allies with far-right US politicians that seek to crush Black Lives Matter thegrayzone.com/2020/06/09/h… via @TheGrayzoneNews
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The largest US embassy in the world is in Hong Kong? Why? So US spooks in China have somewhere to hang on R&R. It's not as if the US "meddles" or anything like that, not mentioning the CIA and the NED. [cough, cough] scmp.com/comment/opinion/art…

Opinion | Washington finally admits it has been interfering in Hong Kong

Members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee have blasted Michael Pack, the new czar of the US government’s global media services, for stymieing US influence operations in the city

scmp.com
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Many socialist take the weird position of being neutral to the CCP despite the racism and classicism enforced by the regime. Not worth arguing with them.
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How does a democracy ensure preservation of human rights while still remaining a democracy?
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Crying "Freedom Of The Press" when HK's Apple Daily Jimmy Lai screams treason begging a US invasion from the front page but not so much as a peep about Julian Assange or Press TV? It's so Apple Pie to live in a cherry-picked reality for the Red, White & Blue. Up, Up & Away!!!
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If Ted Cruz retweted you that should give you a hint something is wrong. That's just a start. An please follow the thread very enlightened information shared here for you.
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There is a very strong track record of protesters supported by the US (NED, USAID, etc.) being right-wingers. Ukraine, Venezuela opposition, the Santa Cruz faction in Bolivia, etc. They don’t care about democracy; and yet our press invariably labels them “pro-democracy.”
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Yeah that's how is works. There is always a clear good guy and an obviously very bad guy. This is an essential narrative device that treats every one as a 5 year old.
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