Chitchat Honkies gone mad! Plucking loose bricks from pavement to protest.

[eatshitndie]

HK people have awareness. They are not soul-less.

in the end they will still lose.

 

[Huatable]

 

[sam heng]

Previous 4 tigers, now like mouse kana from the shit PRC.

 

[nightsafari]

China bans Winnie the Pooh film after comparisons to President Xi
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Memes likening Xi to the portly Pooh have become a vehicle in China to mock the country’s leader
Benjamin Haas
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Tue 7 Aug 2018 03.11 BSTLast modified on Tue 7 Aug 2018 19.55 BST
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The film Christopher Robin – an adaptation of AA Milne’s famous story about Winnie the Pooh – has been blocked by Chinese censors. Composite: Allstar/Disney/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Who’s afraid of Winnie the Pooh? The Chinese government, apparently.
Chinese censors have banned the release of Christopher Robin, a new film adaptation of AA Milne’s beloved story about Winnie the Pooh, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The Winnie the Pooh character has become a lighthearted way for people across China to mock their president, Xi Jinping, but it seems the government doesn’t find the joke very funny.

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It started when Xi visited the US in 2013, and an image of Xi and then president Barack Obama walking together spurred comparisons to Winnie – a portly Xi – walking with Tigger, a lanky Obama.

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Winnie the Pooh characters alongside Xi Jinping and Barack Obama. Photograph: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/Twitter/ @WhiteCurryLover
Xi was again compared to the fictional bear in 2014 during a meeting with Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, who took on the part of the pessimistic, gloomy donkey, Eeyore.

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AA Milne’s characters Eeyore and Winnie the Pooh were compared to Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, and China’s President Xi Jingping. Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Twitter/ REUTERS

As comparisons grew and the meme spread online, censors began erasing the images which mocked Xi. The website of US television station HBO was blocked last month after comedian John Oliver repeatedly made fun of the Chinese president’s apparent sensitivity over comparisons of his figure with that of Winnie. The segment also focused on China’s dismal human rights record.

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Another comparison between Xi and Winnie during a military parade in 2015 became that year’s most censored image, according to Global Risk Insights. The firm said the Chinese government viewed the meme as “a serious effort to undermine the dignity of the presidential office and Xi himself”.
“Authoritarian regimes are often touchy, yet the backlash is confusing since the government is effectively squashing an potential positive, and organic, public image campaign for Xi,” the report said at the time. “Beijing’s reaction is doubly odd given the fact that Xi has made substantial efforts to create a cult of personality showing him as a benevolent ruler.”
Another reason for the film’s rejection by the authorities may be that Chinaonly allows 34 foreign films to be released in cinemas each year. That leaves Hollywood summer blockbusters, family films and contenders from across the world jockeying for a tiny number of spots.
Christopher Robin is the second Disney film to be denied a release this year, after A Wrinkle in Time was blocked, while the studio’s Ant Man and the Wasp will open this month.

I always liked Winnie the Pooh. Now I have another reason!

 

[nightsafari]

great pix. y'know, they can always leave right?

 

[Huatable]

Crackdown Started

3:22PM
Police fire pepper-based solution at protesters
On Tim Wa Avenue, police are spraying pepper-based solution at protesters, who use umbrellas to protect themselves. Protesters chant slogans.

 

[Huatable]

Protesters march along Harcourt Road and Connaught Road Central - Reuters

 

[Huatable]

Two Hong Kong-based adult websites are urging their users to join the protests against the extradition bill today.

The local section of website AV01 stopped its video offerings and urged its users to go out and protest.

A message posted on its website in English said: "Do you want to live the rest of your life looking over your shoulder? There will be no more safe place or security. The government has failed you, the system has failed you, the society has failed you, do you want to fail yourself? #HongKong #SaveOurCity #AntiExtraditionLaw #NoChinaExtradition."

And porn site ThisAV has a similar banner on its landing page. For the initial protest on June 9, when more than one million people came out to march against the bill, it urged its users to join the march.

 

[Huatable]

Over 50 HK schools to shut for a week to protest extradition bill from today.

 

[Leongsam]

Over 50 HK schools to shut for a week to protest extradition bill from today.

Time to send in the PLA. They are very experienced in gunning down their fellow countrymen. In fact that's the only battle they can win... when the opposing side is unarmed.

 

[Huatable]

HK always have two tough maths questions unanswered:

1. There is no indication that the massive reserves (about HKD 300,000 per resident) will continue to be held by the locals in 2047.

2. China leased NT and Kowloon for 99 years ending 1997 but the British sold these land parcels for tenors beyond 1997. After the promised 50-years of status quo, technically all land leases expire in 2047. Then everyone needs to top-up for their property title or the HK government has to pay a massive sum to the central government to extend the land leases on behalf of the whole HK in 2047, depending how you intepret the common law.

 

[Huatable]

Police winning - walkway above Harcourt Road, next to the government building, has now been cleared by police.

As the police continue to push back along Harcourt Road, many of the protesters have retreated into the nearby Pacific Place and Queensway shopping centers.
Police have used so much tear gas that it has set off the fire alarm inside the Queensway mall.
Even streets away, protesters are still able to feel the effects of the tear gas from around the Legislative Council.

 

[Boliao]

These fuckers forgot 6/4. PLA should just send tanks and kill a few million. Bankrupt HK by increasing corporate tax and personal tax there while lowering them in Shenzhen and Shanghai. All Hong Kee will be begging to suck Chinese cocks soon.

 

[Boliao]

Hong Kong also has extradition laws with other countries. What is wrong with having one with mainland China? Problem is these protestors still live in the past and think that everything in Hong Kong is better than China; including its law.

 

[apogee]

Now that they are under China's thumb they start clamoring for democracy. It's a bit late in the day to cry over spilt milk.

When the Ang Mohs were running things Hong Kong was the best because Ang Mohs are the best of the best.

Then why did Burma kick out the Ang Mohs? Burmese are just dumb/

 

[Leongsam]

Then why did Burma kick out the Ang Mohs? Burmese are just dumb/

We wanted the drug money for ourselves why should we share with Chao Ang Moh?

 

[laksaboy]

Hong Kong also has extradition laws with other countries. What is wrong with having one with mainland China? Problem is these protestors still live in the past and think that everything in Hong Kong is better than China; including its law.

If you want your friends and family to be 'vanished' in the middle of the night, then of course the laws in China are superior.

 

[Huatable]

 

[hairylee]

100 years of free spirit under British rule. It will take a while to adjust.

 

[Huatable]

Police Violence