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RE: Some recent footage from Hong Kong
I'm going with fake news on this one. A friend of mine works there and the protests start before lunch hour and stop after. The regular people go out from their offices and gawk unprotected - 10 feet from bunch of police looking like the end is coming. I have some photos he sent me, and this looks as staged as ferguson, batman, paris, nice - and on and on we go. People are standing there eating lunch as they watch the show. Since the mainstream press is all speaking in one voice, you know they are being fed this info.
wow..
I was wondering for a long time: what do you mean?
I downvoted it just in case it's for real.
And because I'm speechless.
Don't worry, it doesn't affect your payout because there's none, it doesn't affect your reputation because mine is lower.
When all of the mainstream is on the same page, you can be sure they are feeding you bs, @thevil. Any of these events is easy to research online. In this case, I just happen to know someone there.
So 2+2=4 is BS because mainstream seems to agree on that?
Research online your ass.
You are talking about my home.
Your home, Hong Kong, or your home Earth, @thevil?
Hong Kong, the only place on Earth that I used to sleep well.
I encourage you to go down to where the action is happening and see for yourself, @thevil. The office workers of the are seem to be able to go about their business without much difficulty. And then too, this seems to be fading out, so you might not have much more time to investigate.
The Hong Kong workers seem to be able to go about their business because you're probably looking at Central. But even that is not normal. Do you ever expect to see riot police lined up in the CBD of a a major financial center? The MTR closes early in the evening, and ramdomly shuts down whenever the police ask them to. Do you think that's normal and things are fading out?
If you have one friend who works there, then I imagine you are fed one source of second hand information. Try speaking to all your friends and family actually living in HK as a local (if you have any), and try speaking to friends who are actually frontliners, and relatives who are real, not self claimed reporters, working for proper media, and you will see exactly what the real situation is like, and what all this means for the local Hong Kong people.
One photo he showed me on his phone, showed riot police in formation with people eating street food and taking cell phone pics just a few feet away, @livinguktaiwan. He does work in the city center somewhere. I don't know of anyone else there, although a steemer who visited and posted a few weeks ago had no issues except for cheaper prices he was happy for.