Post #2643913
2026-05-01 15:52 UTC
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@reflex@retrogaming.social 2026-05-01 15:54
@cxiao@infosec.exchange @mayintoronto@beige.party @chu@climatejustice.social It is also the most capitalist place I've ever been and it makes me sad that the west had that influence. But again, her life and her parents lives have consistently improved overall through their lifetimes.
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@chu@climatejustice.social 2026-05-01 16:02
@reflex@retrogaming.social @cxiao@infosec.exchange @mayintoronto@beige.party My family is from HK you can say I was born with bias against China. If you've lived in China, you've experienced more of the Chinese reality than I have. What I can say though is that HK is also a mirror for the world and what happens when rights disappear. A newspaper can get raided and closed overnight. Religious leaders are put in prison. Young people didn't get killed like they did in 89 but many are in prison or exile now. Having said all of that, with everything happening in the US and threat of that fascism coming to Canada, my partner and I had a real conversation about where to take our chances in life. We discussed Taiwan as a possibility, but what if it gets invaded? And in the end, as Han looking people, we figured our chances are higher in a yellow man dictatorship over a white man dictatorship. The sad reality being that at least as part of the ethnic majority, we shouldn't be first under the bus. The sad state of our conversations these days.