Comments by "" (@ericp1139) on "Umbrella group behind Hong Kong’s largest protests, Civil Human Rights Front, disbands" video.

  1. HK was always a city of China. The Brits occupied it until 1997 when they returned it to its rightful owners.
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  2. You mean being colonized?
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  3. CIA $$$
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  4. Lol, the US don’t want no foreigners. They just enjoy destabilizing other countries and take no responsibility.
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  5.  @rolandkatsuragi  but they weren’t British nationals. HKers were second class citizens to their British masters.
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  6.  @rolandkatsuragi  that’s not the same as British citizenship or being a national. If it were, then they can just move to Britain.
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  7.  @themelon_1785  why should HK be independent? Just because they want? Mt Rushmore has been declared property of Native Americans, but the US Govt doesn’t leave. Independence doesn’t come just because some people want it.
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  8.  @Commievn  a better analogy is a stranger comes to your home, assaults you, kidnaps your child, and raises it for decades.
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  9. HK never had democracy in its history.
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  10. NED and MI6 are cool with the Brits.
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  11. A lot of folks unfairly jailed in BLM protests too.
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  12.  @Solon1581  I’m dictatorship anywhere. Whether it’s the US or China.
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  13. HK never had democracy.
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  14. I don’t think you know what communism means.
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  15. What island?
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  16. Why would they need to?
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  17.  @freddarau  Native American genocide, Slavery, Chinese Exclusion Acts, Japanese Internment Camps, Tuskegee Experiments, Hiroshima/Nagasaki, drone strikes, war on drugs, BLM protests, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya… Should I continue?
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  18.  @maceinurface5279  definitely don’t want a 1/6 again.
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  19. HK never had democracy. Not even under their British masters.
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  20.  @rolandkatsuragi  the HK, Brit, and China dynamic has huge race dynamics to it.
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  21. CIA agents in the comments being salty.
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  22.  @dl7311  name a time HK had real democracy.
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  23. Neolibs want democracy everywhere. I guess the US realized it was a waste of money after Afghanistan.
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