Hong Kong: what next?
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krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
MrCurry
right after this urgent rest
Try to remember other times when you’ve felt things were hopeless but then at a later stage had a different perspective and felt differently. Realise you don’t bear responsibility for how the world is - don’t try to shoulder it.
There’s a quote by social anthropologist Clifford Geertz - “man is an animal suspended in webs of significance that he himself has spun”.
These things which make us feel helpless and defeated are human creations. Maybe it helps to remember that.
I've known Lee Cheuk-Yan for nearly 20 years and have marched with him more times than I can remember. He is an intelligent and educated man of impeccable character and the highest integrity. A thoroughly decent man to the core. A labour rights activist since his days at HKU (he graduated as an engineer), his life has been devoted full-time to unionism, activism, workers rights and democracy. He was up in Beijing in 1989, delivering aid from Hongkongers to the students at Tiananmen when the shooting started and tanks swept in on the 4th of June. He was lucky to get out. He's been organising the candlelit vigil in Victoria Park, every year, since 1989.
Currently serving 18 months in jail for participating in an unauthorised assembly, he was in court again this morning to offer his mitigation for a further conviction of inciting an unauthorised assembly at Victoria Park on 4th June 2020.
Below is his mitigation speech to the court (17/11/2021). He was in tears. "If I must go to jail to affirm my will, then so be it. Thank you, Your Honour."
My heart fucking bleeds. It's really hard to witness what's happening as my world disintegrates around me. Non stop. Day after day after fucking day.
Woof
Currently serving 18 months in jail for participating in an unauthorised assembly, he was in court again this morning to offer his mitigation for a further conviction of inciting an unauthorised assembly at Victoria Park on 4th June 2020.
Below is his mitigation speech to the court (17/11/2021). He was in tears. "If I must go to jail to affirm my will, then so be it. Thank you, Your Honour."
My heart fucking bleeds. It's really hard to witness what's happening as my world disintegrates around me. Non stop. Day after day after fucking day.
Woof
bluescreen
tofu eating wokerati
I've known Lee Cheuk-Yan for nearly 20 years and have marched with him more times than I can remember. He is an intelligent and educated man of impeccable character and the highest integrity. A thoroughly decent man to the core. A labour rights activist since his days at HKU (he graduated as an engineer), his life has been devoted full-time to unionism, activism, workers rights and democracy. He was up in Beijing in 1989, delivering aid from Hongkongers to the students at Tiananmen when the shooting started and tanks swept in on the 4th of June. He was lucky to get out. He's been organising the candlelit vigil in Victoria Park, every year, since 1989.
Currently serving 18 months in jail for participating in an unauthorised assembly, he was in court again this morning to offer his mitigation for a further conviction of inciting an unauthorised assembly at Victoria Park on 4th June 2020.
Below is his mitigation speech to the court (17/11/2021). He was in tears. "If I must go to jail to affirm my will, then so be it. Thank you, Your Honour."
My heart fucking bleeds. It's really hard to witness what's happening as my world disintegrates around me. Non stop. Day after day after fucking day.
Woof
Dignified and very brave. Thanks for sharing.
Roy Ngerng is a high-profile Singaporean and fellow traveler.
This is quite hilarious. He ripped a new arsehole for Yanis Varoufakis this afternoon. A productive day.
Eloquent and to the point point, Roy. You speak for so many of us around the region. Very well said.
Woof
This is quite hilarious. He ripped a new arsehole for Yanis Varoufakis this afternoon. A productive day.
Eloquent and to the point point, Roy. You speak for so many of us around the region. Very well said.
Woof
hitmouse
music obfuscation technology
What to know about the foodpanda delivery rider strike - Lausan
The demands and grievances of striking foodpanda riders explained, and how to help to campaign to increase their bargaining leverage.
lausan.hk
Yup.
I also remember the numerous human chains, stretching down Nathan Road towards PolyU, passing supplies - both legal and not so - from hand-to-hand, to resupply the students under siege. And the multiple hoards blocking various streets and junctions, all across Kowloon, to try to prevent police reinforcements reaching the university.
Throughout the protests (and beyond,) it really was/is a whole-of-community effort.
Woof
What to know about the foodpanda delivery rider strike - Lausan
The demands and grievances of striking foodpanda riders explained, and how to help to campaign to increase their bargaining leverage.
Thanks for getting this out here/there, hitmouse. These guys are real heroes.
Predominately migrants of Pakistani origin (though some are HK born of migrant parents,) they are discriminated against and squeezed in the worst ways by a company that knows they have few, if any, other options.
Power to their elbow!
Crank up the emails and Tweets peeps.
Woof
Oh!
And mark my words, peeps! Mark my fuckin' words!
East German Arab (or Arab East German - pick your fancy,) Master Watchmakers are among the rarest and weirdest of creatures on the planet you could ever hope to come across. Let alone a fuckin' Nihilist one - on top of that!
And in East Asia, they're rarer than hens teeth. It's impossible that you could ever hope to meet one!
And yet ... here we are.
Every fuckin' Friday fuckin' night. Alone together. For six or eight hours a week, every week, on a Friday night.
For the last 12 years.
More than 4,000 fuckin' hours now, on Fridays, (soaked in beer, whisky, occasional weed and always exquisite music,) we've devoted time to specifically fuckin' each others psyches to pieces with full-on intensity. And a few hundred hours outside of Fridays on top!
Brutally and deliberately fragmenting each others vulnerabilities and casting everything into the storm. Week after week after month after year after year.
Deliberately, purposefully and violently, ripping and shredding our own - and each others - identities, psyches value systems to pieces.
Stripping everything back to nothing.
It's the road less travelled.
Trying to live within the Matrix (no fuckin' choice!) while simultaneously constructing a reality that exists outside of it. Not being captured. Resisting. At least on a Friday night.
It's a lonely path and a deeply, deeply painful stripping away of identity and ego.
But, if self awareness is potentially a thing, it may be a worthwhile path.
And I wouldn't miss it for the world. I love self awareness. I have so little. And I'm so hungry for it. How many decades must I struggle before I can become wise? I crave wisdom.
The problem is ... wisdom entails understanding how stupid I am. How insecure I am. How trapped in the Matrix I am and how fucked up and inadequate I am.
The quest for wisdom is a brutal path. There is no arrival. It's an ongoing, lifelong path of failure.
A constant battle.
And the shitiest bit of it all is that the entire battle lies within. Everything else is just the Matrix.
Wisdom?
What a fuckin' conundrum!
The more of it you get, the less you realise you know - and the burden of acquisition increases.
I guess, at least, i get to glimpse the Matrix. It's not real peeps. It's an illusion. Loving yourself and each other is the only true reality.
And it's the hardest of tasks.
I love you all good peeps - or at least I'm still trying to. Fair? Christ! I'm still trying to learn to love myself.
Anyway ...
At some point tonight, Silvio asked me: "What is love?".
He gathered Belladog under his wing and they both listened intently.
I did my best to explain.
I'm not sure that went perfectly - they both look a bit distressed to be honest. But what the fuck? It's only been just over 4,000 hours to date, right? Thers's still room for progress, Right?
I fuckin' hope hope so! I ain't crushing my curiosity! I'm feeding it!
Anyway, again ...
He's gone. And I've taken Bella out for a late, late walk/pee. And we need to sleep. Oh fuck - we need to sleep!
But grab the look on Silvio's (and Bella's) face as I tried to explain love to them ...
Nodding and smiling, Right? (With Bella doing her evil laser-eyes shit - creepy.)
Oh shit! Am I the baddie?
Eh! Whatevers! He's gone.
6:00am.
Come Bells. Bed now mate. Rest.
Have a sweet weekend peeps. Remember. Be nice to each other. Okay?
I swear ... if I hadn't been distracted by the Arab and the Bitch, I'd have had it all sorted by now!
Blessings all.
Woof
And mark my words, peeps! Mark my fuckin' words!
East German Arab (or Arab East German - pick your fancy,) Master Watchmakers are among the rarest and weirdest of creatures on the planet you could ever hope to come across. Let alone a fuckin' Nihilist one - on top of that!
And in East Asia, they're rarer than hens teeth. It's impossible that you could ever hope to meet one!
And yet ... here we are.
Every fuckin' Friday fuckin' night. Alone together. For six or eight hours a week, every week, on a Friday night.
For the last 12 years.
More than 4,000 fuckin' hours now, on Fridays, (soaked in beer, whisky, occasional weed and always exquisite music,) we've devoted time to specifically fuckin' each others psyches to pieces with full-on intensity. And a few hundred hours outside of Fridays on top!
Brutally and deliberately fragmenting each others vulnerabilities and casting everything into the storm. Week after week after month after year after year.
Deliberately, purposefully and violently, ripping and shredding our own - and each others - identities, psyches value systems to pieces.
Stripping everything back to nothing.
It's the road less travelled.
Trying to live within the Matrix (no fuckin' choice!) while simultaneously constructing a reality that exists outside of it. Not being captured. Resisting. At least on a Friday night.
It's a lonely path and a deeply, deeply painful stripping away of identity and ego.
But, if self awareness is potentially a thing, it may be a worthwhile path.
And I wouldn't miss it for the world. I love self awareness. I have so little. And I'm so hungry for it. How many decades must I struggle before I can become wise? I crave wisdom.
The problem is ... wisdom entails understanding how stupid I am. How insecure I am. How trapped in the Matrix I am and how fucked up and inadequate I am.
The quest for wisdom is a brutal path. There is no arrival. It's an ongoing, lifelong path of failure.
A constant battle.
And the shitiest bit of it all is that the entire battle lies within. Everything else is just the Matrix.
Wisdom?
What a fuckin' conundrum!
The more of it you get, the less you realise you know - and the burden of acquisition increases.
I guess, at least, i get to glimpse the Matrix. It's not real peeps. It's an illusion. Loving yourself and each other is the only true reality.
And it's the hardest of tasks.
I love you all good peeps - or at least I'm still trying to. Fair? Christ! I'm still trying to learn to love myself.
Anyway ...
At some point tonight, Silvio asked me: "What is love?".
He gathered Belladog under his wing and they both listened intently.
I did my best to explain.
I'm not sure that went perfectly - they both look a bit distressed to be honest. But what the fuck? It's only been just over 4,000 hours to date, right? Thers's still room for progress, Right?
I fuckin' hope hope so! I ain't crushing my curiosity! I'm feeding it!
Anyway, again ...
He's gone. And I've taken Bella out for a late, late walk/pee. And we need to sleep. Oh fuck - we need to sleep!
But grab the look on Silvio's (and Bella's) face as I tried to explain love to them ...
Nodding and smiling, Right? (With Bella doing her evil laser-eyes shit - creepy.)
Oh shit! Am I the baddie?
Eh! Whatevers! He's gone.
6:00am.
Come Bells. Bed now mate. Rest.
Have a sweet weekend peeps. Remember. Be nice to each other. Okay?
I swear ... if I hadn't been distracted by the Arab and the Bitch, I'd have had it all sorted by now!
Blessings all.
Woof
not-bono-ever
meh
Dunno what to say mate. I have had chats with HKers here in London and they are usually pretty open about stuff but are very guarded about the whole situation. Keep posting !
Tell me about it!
YOU try explaining the meaning of pure, unconditional love to a fucking Nihilist (and a dog!) at 4:00am on a fucking Saturday morning - while everyone's fucked out of their fucking brain!
It ain't fucking pretty. I can tell you.
But believe me, it's one hell of a fucking journey.
I really fucking love Hong Kong and I really fucking love my Fridays.
Oh boy. (ETA: Shame what's happened.
)Woof
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Meanwhile, another of the consequences of the collapse of the "Two Systems" part of the equation ...
Global bodies/organisations (such as the WTO/WHO/et al,) in which the HKSAR was supposed to have an independent voice, are now - in reality - merely an additional vote for the PRC.
Oh well, (as the Septics say): It is what it is!
(With an apology for the casual racism.)
Woof
Global bodies/organisations (such as the WTO/WHO/et al,) in which the HKSAR was supposed to have an independent voice, are now - in reality - merely an additional vote for the PRC.
Oh well, (as the Septics say): It is what it is!
(With an apology for the casual racism.)
Woof
The latest blog from legal scholar Jerome A. Cohen is a lengthy but worthwhile read, particularly for those interested in how the NSL has impacted Hong Kong's criminal justice and judicial systems and the ramifications.
www.jeromecohen.net
Woof
Hong Kong's Transformed Criminal Justice System: Instrument of Fear — Jerome A. Cohen | 孔傑榮（柯恩）
Several of us were recently asked to write essays for Taiwan’s Academia Sinica on developments in Hong Kong. These will be formally published in March but, in view of the pace of events and the importance of the topic, we have been authorized to make our views available now. HONG KONG’S TRANSFOR
www.jeromecohen.net
Woof
Last week, Lai Chun-lok, aged 29, was finally brought to court on a charge of rioting (in early 2019 - before things really kicked off).
While on a peaceful mass-protest, dressed only in jeans, tee-shirt and a pair of flip flops (no mask, helmet, gear, nothing), he threw a plastic water bottle "in the direction of police" lines. It didn't reach them.
Later in the evening, a very few (black-clad, Sau Juk, front-liners,) took it to the police a wee bit in revenge of the earlier mass teargassing of peaceful protesters.
THE NEXT DAY the police, retrospectively, declared that the whole protest had been a riot from the start. This then allowed protestors like Lai (and many others,) to be charged with "rioting" rather than unauthorised assembly.
He was sentenced to twenty eight months in jail (2y 4m).
So many thousands have been persecuted in this way - to try to deter the escalating, peaceful, protests during the first six months of 2019. The police became a brutal paramilitary force, acting with complete impunity. Teargassing tens of thousands of peaceful protesters. Children, young, families, elderly. For not dispersing at the end of the authorised time limit. And then, as tear-gassed families, ran weeping with their children, the Sau Juk began to step up.
The police brutality escalated rapidly and exponentially. All cops unidentifiable in full riot gear and authorised to carry no warrant card or any other identifying number. They could act carte blanche, with totally impunity. They were told to stop the protests. Hundreds of thousands of people marching, week after week after week.
The crackdown was brutal. The Sau Juk stepped up. Every Hongkonger had their role, played their part. Each part supported the other.
A fight for freedom. A fight to the death for a few and with the, literal, fear of death for far, FAR too many - mostly young - people for far, FAR too long.
news.rthk.hk
And today, Tony Chung, who was arrested just over a year ago in Oct' 2020 and has been held in custody since (his 20th birthday was in April 2021,) was the third person sentenced under the National Security Law (the first arrested, the third sentenced).
Already a well known secondary school student activist since 2016, he posted some shit on the internet about the people of Hong having the right to self determination (guaranteed under the Basic Law through Article 39 which cements the United Nations International Declarations - which Hong Kong has signed and ratified - into HK's mini-constitution).
Under the NSL?
Guilty of secession.
Three years and seven months in jail.
(And we don't do 1/2 off for good behaviour here, maximum 1/3 discount but you can guarantee that under the NSL, that won't happen - these are political prisoners and already being singled out and targeted for "special treatment" by the Correctional Services Department [CSD] - as are those jailed for unauthorised assembly, riot, etc.)
He was also convicted of money laundering. Over the years, he'd crowdfunded about GBP12,000 through his PayPal account, to help with his activism. Every single dollar was spent on activism (posters, leaflets, etc. etc.). He took not a cent for himself. Not one.
But recently in Hong Kong - as many activists and small democracy groups have discovered to their detriment - crowdfunding has been re-defined as money laundering. S'funny when you can make the law mean anything you want and then apply it selectively. But not really "fun" actually.
news.rthk.hk
Happy days.
All's well.
Be nice to each other, peeps.
(Edited: for the usual dog-pawed typo-fuckwittery, "fat thumbs" are nothing in the canine domain - it's fucking slow and really hard for dogs!
And then again, to add additional flavour - night peeps, come Bell; bed!)
Woof
While on a peaceful mass-protest, dressed only in jeans, tee-shirt and a pair of flip flops (no mask, helmet, gear, nothing), he threw a plastic water bottle "in the direction of police" lines. It didn't reach them.
Later in the evening, a very few (black-clad, Sau Juk, front-liners,) took it to the police a wee bit in revenge of the earlier mass teargassing of peaceful protesters.
THE NEXT DAY the police, retrospectively, declared that the whole protest had been a riot from the start. This then allowed protestors like Lai (and many others,) to be charged with "rioting" rather than unauthorised assembly.
He was sentenced to twenty eight months in jail (2y 4m).
So many thousands have been persecuted in this way - to try to deter the escalating, peaceful, protests during the first six months of 2019. The police became a brutal paramilitary force, acting with complete impunity. Teargassing tens of thousands of peaceful protesters. Children, young, families, elderly. For not dispersing at the end of the authorised time limit. And then, as tear-gassed families, ran weeping with their children, the Sau Juk began to step up.
The police brutality escalated rapidly and exponentially. All cops unidentifiable in full riot gear and authorised to carry no warrant card or any other identifying number. They could act carte blanche, with totally impunity. They were told to stop the protests. Hundreds of thousands of people marching, week after week after week.
The crackdown was brutal. The Sau Juk stepped up. Every Hongkonger had their role, played their part. Each part supported the other.
A fight for freedom. A fight to the death for a few and with the, literal, fear of death for far, FAR too many - mostly young - people for far, FAR too long.
Bottle-thrower jailed 28 months for rioting - RTHK
A man has been jailed for two years and four months for rioting after he threw a plastic water bottle in the direction of the police during protests i...
And today, Tony Chung, who was arrested just over a year ago in Oct' 2020 and has been held in custody since (his 20th birthday was in April 2021,) was the third person sentenced under the National Security Law (the first arrested, the third sentenced).
Already a well known secondary school student activist since 2016, he posted some shit on the internet about the people of Hong having the right to self determination (guaranteed under the Basic Law through Article 39 which cements the United Nations International Declarations - which Hong Kong has signed and ratified - into HK's mini-constitution).
Under the NSL?
Guilty of secession.
Three years and seven months in jail.
(And we don't do 1/2 off for good behaviour here, maximum 1/3 discount but you can guarantee that under the NSL, that won't happen - these are political prisoners and already being singled out and targeted for "special treatment" by the Correctional Services Department [CSD] - as are those jailed for unauthorised assembly, riot, etc.)
He was also convicted of money laundering. Over the years, he'd crowdfunded about GBP12,000 through his PayPal account, to help with his activism. Every single dollar was spent on activism (posters, leaflets, etc. etc.). He took not a cent for himself. Not one.
But recently in Hong Kong - as many activists and small democracy groups have discovered to their detriment - crowdfunding has been re-defined as money laundering. S'funny when you can make the law mean anything you want and then apply it selectively. But not really "fun" actually.
Ex-activist Tony Chung jailed for 3 years 7 months - RTHK
Former student activist Tony Chung was on Tuesday jailed for three years and seven months for secession and money laundering. He had earlier pleaded g...
Happy days.
All's well.
Be nice to each other, peeps.
(Edited: for the usual dog-pawed typo-fuckwittery, "fat thumbs" are nothing in the canine domain - it's fucking slow and really hard for dogs!
And then again, to add additional flavour - night peeps, come Bell; bed!)Woof
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krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Keep up the good work, Jessiedog
Feel so powerless about what's happening to the people of HK and what's going to happen in Taiwan.
Also, a wee bit saddened by the apparent apathy towards this thread. But guessing when something like this is occurring thousands of miles away it can feel like remote stuff.
Used to laugh at the US right wing contingent here in Japan when they say China is coming... not so sure anymore if it's funny.
Feel so powerless about what's happening to the people of HK and what's going to happen in Taiwan.
Also, a wee bit saddened by the apparent apathy towards this thread. But guessing when something like this is occurring thousands of miles away it can feel like remote stuff.
Used to laugh at the US right wing contingent here in Japan when they say China is coming... not so sure anymore if it's funny.
RTHK, the superb 100+ year old public broadcaster has turned into CCP state media inside of a year.
The news report (in Chinese, on their website,) written about the plight of Peng Shuai, has been removed and has also disappeared from their search engine and archives.
Total CCP control.
Woof
The news report (in Chinese, on their website,) written about the plight of Peng Shuai, has been removed and has also disappeared from their search engine and archives.
Total CCP control.
Woof
I remember going to vote in the District Council elections two years ago today (24/11/2019).
After many months of daily/weekly protests and ongoing and escalating violence between protesters - in particular front-line Sau Juk - and police (acting with complete impunity,) the Chief Executive, Carrie Lam, insisted that these elections MUST go ahead.
She claimed that the election would give the "Silent Majority" the chance to come out and condemn the out-of-control protesters.
Well ... She was right. The "Silent Majority" came out to vote in droves. A 72% turnout in local elections. By far the highest turnout of any democratic exercise that Hong Kong has ever conducted.
The Pan-Democratic camp (predominately comprised of candidates aged 20 - 25 who were all protesters/activists,) won a landslide 87% of the @ 450 seats at stake and took control of 17 of the 18 District Councils).
My representative (I voted for him,) was a 21 year old fresh graduate and democracy activist.
It showed the government what the Silent Majority wanted.
So ...
Then ... the CCP canceled the LegCo (parliamentary,) elections for 2020.
Then ... introduced the National Security Law (and effectively disbanded the District Councils - there's now no local representation to help with drainage problems, floods, landslides, footbridges, etc. etc.).
Then ... increased the number of LegCo (parliamentary,) election seats to 90 and reduced the directly elected seats to 20 (the CCP chooses the rest).
Then ... jailed (without trial,) most of the opposition camp (the ones that had not already fled into exile,) including District Councillors.
Then ... scheduled the LegCo election for December 2021.
Then ... accused democrats of refusing to participate in the election (we're all boycotting).
Then ... ordered all of the 90 CCP-favoured candidates to go out and find someone to stand against themselves, to ensure that every seat was contested.
Then ... made it illegal to suggest that people, if they choose, can cast a blank ballot, spoil their ballot or refrain from voting. It's still constitutionally guaranteed that we can do these things (under the Basic Law,) but now it's illegal to talk about doing it.
Then ... decreed that "Hongkongers" residing in the mainland (mostly among the - more-than-a-million - pro-CCP mainlanders shipped into Hong Kong over the last 20 years [characteristic displacement policies in recalcitrant "provinces"], that have obtained Hong Kong Permanent Residency and then gone home to the mainland,) to vote in the Hong Kong election, without leaving the mainland.
And still ... the only remaining reliable polls from local academics suggest that the likely turnout rate will be under 50% (that kind of independent polling will be shut down too, shortly).
I've voted in every local and general election since I was able to - for over 20 years.
I can't decide what to do in this December's general election ...
I can't vote for any of the available candidates. That would be against everything I value.
So ...
Do I vote by casting a blank ballot (it will be counted as a vote).
Do I vote by writing: "Fuck you! This is not democracy! This is fascism you cunts!" (Spoiled ballot. Counted as a vote. My favoured option [but, yeah, the "hothead" option, I know].)
Or do I withhold my consent by refraining from voting (boycotting, and hence reducing turnout).
Suggestions/opinions appreciated.
Maybe I should I do an Urban75 Poll?
Night peeps.
Keeps thinking.
Come Bella. Rest.
Woof
After many months of daily/weekly protests and ongoing and escalating violence between protesters - in particular front-line Sau Juk - and police (acting with complete impunity,) the Chief Executive, Carrie Lam, insisted that these elections MUST go ahead.
She claimed that the election would give the "Silent Majority" the chance to come out and condemn the out-of-control protesters.
Well ... She was right. The "Silent Majority" came out to vote in droves. A 72% turnout in local elections. By far the highest turnout of any democratic exercise that Hong Kong has ever conducted.
The Pan-Democratic camp (predominately comprised of candidates aged 20 - 25 who were all protesters/activists,) won a landslide 87% of the @ 450 seats at stake and took control of 17 of the 18 District Councils).
My representative (I voted for him,) was a 21 year old fresh graduate and democracy activist.
It showed the government what the Silent Majority wanted.
So ...
Then ... the CCP canceled the LegCo (parliamentary,) elections for 2020.
Then ... introduced the National Security Law (and effectively disbanded the District Councils - there's now no local representation to help with drainage problems, floods, landslides, footbridges, etc. etc.).
Then ... increased the number of LegCo (parliamentary,) election seats to 90 and reduced the directly elected seats to 20 (the CCP chooses the rest).
Then ... jailed (without trial,) most of the opposition camp (the ones that had not already fled into exile,) including District Councillors.
Then ... scheduled the LegCo election for December 2021.
Then ... accused democrats of refusing to participate in the election (we're all boycotting).
Then ... ordered all of the 90 CCP-favoured candidates to go out and find someone to stand against themselves, to ensure that every seat was contested.
Then ... made it illegal to suggest that people, if they choose, can cast a blank ballot, spoil their ballot or refrain from voting. It's still constitutionally guaranteed that we can do these things (under the Basic Law,) but now it's illegal to talk about doing it.
Then ... decreed that "Hongkongers" residing in the mainland (mostly among the - more-than-a-million - pro-CCP mainlanders shipped into Hong Kong over the last 20 years [characteristic displacement policies in recalcitrant "provinces"], that have obtained Hong Kong Permanent Residency and then gone home to the mainland,) to vote in the Hong Kong election, without leaving the mainland.
And still ... the only remaining reliable polls from local academics suggest that the likely turnout rate will be under 50% (that kind of independent polling will be shut down too, shortly).
I've voted in every local and general election since I was able to - for over 20 years.
I can't decide what to do in this December's general election ...
I can't vote for any of the available candidates. That would be against everything I value.
So ...
Do I vote by casting a blank ballot (it will be counted as a vote).
Do I vote by writing: "Fuck you! This is not democracy! This is fascism you cunts!" (Spoiled ballot. Counted as a vote. My favoured option [but, yeah, the "hothead" option, I know].)
Or do I withhold my consent by refraining from voting (boycotting, and hence reducing turnout).
Suggestions/opinions appreciated.
Maybe I should I do an Urban75 Poll?
Night peeps.
Keeps thinking.
Come Bella. Rest.
Woof
moochedit
I'm not feeding seagulls
The urban thing is to draw a spunking cock.
Or maybe a picture of winnie the pooh? (Can you draw?)
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
i'd draw a spunking umbrella on the ballot
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