As I’ve mentioned, winning the popular vote by a decent amount is a huge deal psychologically. All this esoteric electoral college stuff is not as easy to muster up a “popular outcry” against.
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I am going to have to check this one out. That’s sounds excellent.
Fair. I’d put the book in the territory of the Bronte sisters in terms of vibe, though with different style and historical era.
Nobody understands how it got made. I’m not even a cinema geek, barely a movie goer and I don’t understand how it got made.
(I read books to think and I was movies as “junk food”)
I don’t necessarily think you’re wrong about the mail in vote demographic, but I’m pretty curious how it strikes you that the least susceptible to Covid are the most worried. That hasn’t been my experience.
I could see that. I am of this camp myself.
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Armed militia members showed up at the Michigan state house. We have seen other right wing extremists show up to counter protest antifa and BLM. I personally think all of them are idiots who should find better things to do with their free time. I think trying to say one side’s extremists are better than the other side’s extremists is silly.
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I was talking about China, actually. My HK friends are divided. Some supported the protestors out of principle, the others did not. They all have business dealings with China and if China decided to develop Shenzhen as a financial hub to serve as a direct competitor, HK would be in trouble.
No one is stupid enough to want Independence, just maintenance of autonomy, which was a clause in the Handover Agreement promising the SAR this until 2047.
However, when it got to the point where the extremists set a dude on fire, that’s when they lost everyone I know.
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I definitely agree with that. I don’t think that’s what anyone here is saying.
I do know that if these right wing extremists were out there starting riots, burning stuff down, and looting businesses, I am 100% certain that the MSM media would’ve been covering it with extreme prejudice, but maybe I’m naive.
(the “naive” is a joke)
The only chick book I read was Jane Eyre and I loved it. But that was for lit too. I really don’t read much fiction unless I have to lol.
No, wait, I think I read parts of The Wide Sargasso Sea before I switched courses but I can’t remember anything from it other than it was a poor chick book.
HK was your native country, right? The people there are pretty well off although there’s quite a high level of income disparity NOW because of the high levels of immigration after '97. Property prices skyrocketed to the highest in the world.
The CCP actually tried to stop HK from turning into a WELFARE STATE in the mid 2000s. That’s one of the reasons why people are pissed off.
People who keep saying China is communist and welfare is “socialism”, let this sink in.
Likewise on anecdotal evidence. Upstate NY and its the opposite. People in there 20’s are locked in their houses houses communicating on zoom and the 55+ tend to scoff at the mask wearing and distancing. Interesting how it’s breaks down across the country.
Yes, but left HK (Kowloon) a long, long time ago. Lived in NYC chinatown area for another decade, then assimilated into evil whitey milieu…
Please expound.
Posted this in the MSM thread.
Kowloon rocks lol. Which part? I’d fly there on weekends sometimes just to have Century Egg Porridge at Nathan Road and my wife love to shop at Temple Street lol.
Wait, no that’s in Mongkok. Kowloon is where the pubs are but I don’t get to go there when my wife’s around.
Remember I’m an old geezer, and grew up poor, very poor when in HK. So, the part where I remember being within walking distance of some (pig?) stockyards.
With pork strips, or fish slices, the best.
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Don’t tell me you lived in the Walled City? Wow. That was even worse than where I grew lol.
Reading the article, I vaguely remember riots.
Even if you hadn’t, the identity politics crew decided that Asians are white, even more white than whites in some cases. It’s funny how other minorities get help to make up for historic oppression whereas Asians get punished for their ability to overcome it and succeed.
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Water collected in giant barrels, floors washed by hand (towels?), piss pots under the bed. Nope, those weren’t the good old days LOL.
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Amen.
I don’t complain that much though, because of my faith in the human race.
Oh, it was EXACTLY the same for me. The big clay barrels, right? I had to bath at a communal tap on the streets carrying my younger brother on my back when I was kid when the water supply got cut off on occasion lol . Studying at night only by the window which had light from a street lamp. Fond memories, actually. Makes me thankful for what I have now.
But the Walled City was something else altogether lol. I don’t know how you guys survived there. Serious respect for you.
You’d probably like this:
Re: The Walled City for anyone interested:
It was probably hell on earth.
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Someone’s really upset that Trump lost.
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I don’t remember it being that bad, so I was probably not in the walled city.
Came to the US when I was only 7 though (5 decades! ago), so memories are very vague at best. Only the “best” stuff stood out hah.
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The focal point will be very, very interesting, now that The One Great Evil has been toppled.
In nature, they would turn on each other, and start “eating” their own…