Dispatches from the State Ministry of Truth

[Razgovory]

So far they haven't done anything though.  I just don't think occupying streets is the appropriate response to the white paper.

Under what conditions would it be an appropriate response to be occupying the streets?  I'm assuming if they went after your pension you would be rioting in short order.

It is not appropriate to take the streets under any circumstances. I think civil service pay and benefits are even more secure after these incidents

HA!  The Greeks thought that as well.  Maybe after the crackdown and the replacement of the Hong Kong Bureaucracy by those deemed more loyal (I.E. not having a British passport), you can get a job driving a cab.

[Eddie Teach]

Maybe after the crackdown and the replacement of the Hong Kong Bureaucracy by those deemed more loyal (I.E. not having a British passport), you can get a job driving a cab.

In Canada.

[Monoriu]

I am afraid that you'll have to stop reading them instead

Ugh.  Can't one of the mods give this guy a "break" until the protesters break up or are broken up?

Mono, you do realize you've successfully pissed off a significant portion of the forum, right?  We joke a lot, but at some level, we at least respect that people can have problems with the government and have the right to "shake things up" to get those problems redressed.  Your inability to think past your own wallet is pretty disgusting.  Hell, you even talk about the protests ending in terms of wage shortfalls.

I know this is going to shock you, but there are people to whom having a working government means more than having a steady paycheck.  Crowing that eventually the army's going to crack down on these people for (mostly) peacefully insisting that their problems are addressed?  Stay classy, Mono.

There are anti-government protests in HK all the time.  Those who are unhappy can protest legally, and they have been doing so for years.  I however have no sympathy for those who occupy roads and attack police.

[mongers]

You seem to be a blind to this distinction as the CCP apparatchiks you've criticised above.

Mono, if there is an near inevitable crackdown on these peaceful protesters, then please show some residual decency and don't come here crowing about it.

I am afraid that you'll have to stop reading them instead

No, I'll continue to read the thread and wonder what happened to Mono, one of the posters I used to like the most on this forum, the guy had an eccentric and amusing take on life together with some interesting stories about life in the East. 

However too much concentrate on one character aspect has seen that Mono faded away, to be replaced with someone I'd really rather not communicate with.

[Monoriu]

So far they haven't done anything though.  I just don't think occupying streets is the appropriate response to the white paper.

Under what conditions would it be an appropriate response to be occupying the streets?  I'm assuming if they went after your pension you would be rioting in short order.

It is not appropriate to take the streets under any circumstances. I think civil service pay and benefits are even more secure after these incidents

HA!  The Greeks thought that as well.  Maybe after the crackdown and the replacement of the Hong Kong Bureaucracy by those deemed more loyal (I.E. not having a British passport), you can get a job driving a cab.

You seem to underestimate the number of people in HK who hold foreign passports

[Monoriu]

Rioters gave ultimatum that the Chief Executive must resign.  He immediately rejected. 

[Razgovory]

You seem to underestimate the number of people in HK who hold foreign passports

There are plenty of people in the mainland who fill out those positions.

[Martinus]

Maybe after the crackdown and the replacement of the Hong Kong Bureaucracy by those deemed more loyal (I.E. not having a British passport), you can get a job driving a cab.

In Canada.

In Cargaly. I can see a sitcom concept brewing. 

Mono could be played by the crazy Spanish teacher/janitor guy from the Community.

[Monoriu]

Maybe after the crackdown and the replacement of the Hong Kong Bureaucracy by those deemed more loyal (I.E. not having a British passport), you can get a job driving a cab.

In Canada.

In Cargaly. I can see a sitcom concept brewing. 

Mono could be played by the crazy Spanish teacher/janitor guy from the Community.

I like Ben Stiller.

[Lettow77]

 While I find Mono's rhetoric to be reprehensible, I'm leery of the requests to crack down on him. His opinion is a rancorous one, but it is representative of the embattled elites of Hong Kong. He is being true to his class and section by being so despicable.

Were this the 1960s, I wonder if Languish would be calling for bans on me for despicable pro-segregationist rhetoric? It seems unreasonable to punish a white male Southerner of that era for voicing such opinions, however poorly they may play on a wider international stage; similarly it doesn't feel right to be moved to want to see Mono censured and censored for being a filthy Chinese bureaucrat; we've all known him to be such, it is only that just now international events push the more disgusting, avaricious, self-aggrandizing and cravenly myopic aspects of his nature to the forefront.

[CountDeMoney]

1960s?  Hell, we do that now, you useless pile of confederate monkey spunk.

[garbon]

I am afraid that you'll have to stop reading them instead

Ugh.  Can't one of the mods give this guy a "break" until the protesters break up or are broken up?

Mono, you do realize you've successfully pissed off a significant portion of the forum, right?  We joke a lot, but at some level, we at least respect that people can have problems with the government and have the right to "shake things up" to get those problems redressed.  Your inability to think past your own wallet is pretty disgusting.  Hell, you even talk about the protests ending in terms of wage shortfalls.

I know this is going to shock you, but there are people to whom having a working government means more than having a steady paycheck.  Crowing that eventually the army's going to crack down on these people for (mostly) peacefully insisting that their problems are addressed?  Stay classy, Mono.

I'll agree that this post is frenzied.

[garbon]

1960s?  Hell, we do that now, you useless pile of confederate monkey spunk.

[Monoriu]

While I find Mono's rhetoric to be reprehensible, I'm leery of the requests to crack down on him. His opinion is a rancorous one, but it is representative of the embattled elites of Hong Kong. He is being true to his class and section by being so despicable.

Were this the 1960s, I wonder if Languish would be calling for bans on me for despicable pro-segregationist rhetoric? It seems unreasonable to punish a white male Southerner of that era for voicing such opinions, however poorly they may play on a wider international stage; similarly it doesn't feel right to be moved to want to see Mono censured and censored for being a filthy Chinese bureaucrat; we've all known him to be such, it is only that just now international events push the more disgusting, avaricious, self-aggrandizing and cravenly myopic aspects of his nature to the forefront.

A low tier civil service office drone is hardly an elite   

And elites don't like anime. 

[derspiess]

Ugh.  Can't one of the mods give this guy a "break" until the protesters break up or are broken up?

That's kind of an overreaction.  Mono has his POV, we have ours.  Chill.