Update: still going strong.

"TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut" (twincharged) 09/29/2014 at 10:30 • Filed to: None

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It's currently 10:30PM and the streets are packed. Clearly, they intend to stay overnight. There's even food available! As far as I know, there have been no major incidents of disobedience or violence - everyone's just calmly sitting there in peace.

(Edit: all those people there are standing across the 5-6 lane motorway outside the HKSAR government building)

It has also been announced that the fireworks for National Day have been cancelled - I'm predicting that events on Wednesday October 1st will tumultuous.

cletus44 aka Clayton Seams > TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut 09/29/2014 at 10:33

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I don't watch the news. Can you explain what's happening in a way my gnat brain can understand? Thanks for keeping us posted btw, very interesting.

vorspringing > TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut 09/29/2014 at 10:36

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This is pretty amazing. Thanks for the updates, and keep safe.

spanfucker retire bitch > TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut 09/29/2014 at 10:39

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Has nobody informed this poor man, that it's not how you eat Corn?

Leadbull > cletus44 aka Clayton Seams 09/29/2014 at 10:41

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Help freedom wanted.

Link won't embed: http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/29/wor…

TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut > cletus44 aka Clayton Seams 09/29/2014 at 10:42

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Basically, as far as I can make out, the protesting is against People's Republic of China's government. Hong Kong is funny because it works on the basis of "one country, two systems" - in China, they have one form of government, in Hong Kong they have another. China is allegedly trying to influence the HK government by attempting to place/choose its preferred government representatives in the HK government, which allows the PRC better control over HK.

When HK was handed back to China from the British in 1997, an agreement was made that Hong Kong would keep its freedom for 50 years. Technically, Hong Kong is a part of China, but because of its interesting political system, many see Hong Kong as a country on its own.

Thus, the general public consensus appears to conclude that this political manoeuvring by China is to place their own/preferred representatives in the government. This prevents the peoples of Hong Kong from democratically choosing someone with HK's concerns at mind - in fact, the Hong Kong people don't have a say in who leads the country, that is decided by an election committee. So far, the citizens of Hong Kong can only vote for constituency leaders but not the leader of the country itself. The idea is that if China is to continue its political wrangling, Hong Kong's government won't be working in the interests of the Hong Kong people, but rather in favour of the PRC government.

Don't quote me entirely on this, the issue is so touchy and sensitive that details can be hard to distinguish and make clear. I don't know the full facts (because my Cantonese isn't the best), but I understand most of it.

TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut > spanfucker retire bitch 09/29/2014 at 10:44

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I'm betting they're pretty hungry.

jariten1781 > TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut 09/29/2014 at 11:00

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That's pretty much how my HK friends think of it.

They generally wish that they'd stayed with the Brits in the first place though. All of them would prefer full independence, but between the PRC rule and the UK they felt there was a lot less meddling with the Brits.

There's also that whole warrantless search thing the govt was trying to put into place 10 or so years ago. Didn't keep touch well enough to know if that got resolved.

BansheeNornForgotHisBurnerKey > TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut 09/29/2014 at 11:26

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the guy just gave zero fracks on how to politely eat corn. lol.

Tohru > TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut 10/07/2014 at 01:02

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Weber grill! 22.5" One-Touch Gold, specifically. I used to do tech support for them.