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    The CCP will have you believe that now is not right the right time. Of course the time is not right, they need more time to brainwash the rest of the population that has yet to be brainwashed.

    This whole anti-radiation salt drama is the result of a dumbed-down, brainwashed public.

    F.A.O. HKITperson:

    By your measure of when the time is right, that time will never come. The time is never right, there is never enough money, no matter how much you have, and there will always be a disadvantaged lower rung of society.

    Now is all we have. If a country like Taiwan can thrive in a free society and democracy, why can't Hong Kong? Much smaller population, so let's drop this whole '1.30 billion is too many to control' sissy-footing line of thought mkay? It'll set the way for the rest of China to follow suit in ways that will suit them, not in ways that others see fit, which will take time but you have to start somewhere.

    The intention is lacking. The CCP have NO inclination to release their strangle-hold over the country.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadnought:
    The CCP will have you believe that now is not right the right time. Of course the time is not right, they need more time to brainwash the rest of the population that has yet to be brainwashed.

    This whole anti-radiation salt drama is the result of a dumbed-down, brainwashed public.
    What you mean people in HK are also brainwashed as well as 2.8B Chinese? This is really the only argument you have isn't it? Can't you think of something more creative?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadnought:
    This whole anti-radiation salt drama is the result of a dumbed-down, brainwashed public.
    Maybe not the best example.

    Anyone who was watching the news (in the US for example) while the event unfolded could have seen that US citizens were also stocking up on "anti radiation" stuffs - but indeed they are also media brainwashed.

    But I let you guys fight over who is right or wrong and I get back to my reading.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Freetrader:
    True. It is a fact that no diaster or upheaval has killed more people in China during the last 100 years than the Chinese Communist Party.
    This site shows how much atrocity is generated by wars and it is shocking how much is from internal strife in the 20th C to today!

    Nations are not nice to each other it seems.

    Not sure that the Mao era can be placed at the current regime's feet any more than Barack Obama can be blamed for the USA's horrific Civil War of 1861-65 which "remains the deadliest war in American history, resulting in the deaths of 620,000 soldiers and an undetermined number of civilian casualties. Ten percent of all Northern males 20–45 years of age died, as did 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18–40"



    Twentieth Century Atlas - Death Tolls

    While true from all accounts it is also true that China during that time had one of the most populated countries in the world.

    China - 1949 - 1976 - 40 million dead

    Despite the ongoing dispute, he is still regarded as one of the most important figures in modern world history,[7] and was named one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century by Time Magazine.[8]

    Russian Civil War (Feb 1917 - 1922)

    o Russian military dead - approx 800,000
    o Russian civilian dead - approx 8,000,000


    Iraq 2010

    o Iraq dead Apr 2003 - 2010 = 155,000 (Iraq Body Count Project)


    Colombia drug war deaths
    o Drug deaths per year = 32,000 (approx) due to drugs

    Somalia civil war (1991 - 2004)

    o Total deaths = 500,000 (European Union official estimate)

    Spanish Civil War (July 1936 - April 1939)

    o Total deaths = 500,000

    Source List and Detailed Death Tolls for the Primary Megadeaths of the Twentieth Century
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    Good to see mainlanders desperately come to HK to exercise their freedom of expression by... watching 3D porn

    BBC News - 3D erotic comedy Sex and Zen breaks Hong Kong record


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    Quote Originally Posted by arshavanpersie:
    Good to see mainlanders desperately come to HK to exercise their freedom of expression by... watching 3D porn

    BBC News - 3D erotic comedy Sex and Zen breaks Hong Kong record
    Well, what you expect after being locked up in brutal gulags.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mat:
    " Of the 1.3 billion Chinese, about 1.29 Billion will cut off their little finger for a US green card - so I don't even know the basis of that ridiculous statement."

    -> source?
    Do you seriously doubt that that is true?

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    Quote Originally Posted by HKITperson:
    Well, what you expect after being locked up in brutal gulags.
    Somehow, I doubt if any political prisoners were able to attend.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mat:
    Maybe not the best example.

    Anyone who was watching the news (in the US for example) while the event unfolded could have seen that US citizens were also stocking up on "anti radiation" stuffs - but indeed they are also media brainwashed.
    Nope. Anyone in China at the time witnessed a whole new level of mass delusion and ignorance. Nobody in California was even remotely concerned. As was previously discussed, the real issue in the PRC is that they know they aren't getting the whole story from the thugs in power, so lacking information, they start to make news (and bizarre radiation remedies) up.

    At least the people I know within the PRC realize they aren't getting the whole story so they ask their friends outside for update.

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    Nobody in California was even remotely concerned.

    -> ABC news was reporting on daily basis on the high level of concern from californian resident....