Dispatches from the State Ministry of Truth

[Syt]

A low tier civil service office drone

[Lettow77]

 You've made a successful argument through the entire thread that most people can't obtain what you have, and the fact that the civil service is so exclusive and closed-off is a major source of this current resentment. It's a bit late to be backtracking from the stance that you are firmly in the elitist camp.

Although I will readily concede your anime taste is pretty plebian.

[frunk]

Monoriu strikes me as valuing stability and consistency more than almost anything else.  I think that's at the root of his contempt for the protesters rather than any class/wealth divide.  Anybody who rocks the boat is detested.

[Tamas]

http://444.hu/assets/hongkong_small.gif

[HVC]

If people were protesting in front of your home and work you wouldn't like them any more than mono. It's not like the occupy walstreet or g8 protestors got much love

[Admiral Yi]

Our Hillary.

[garbon]

If people were protesting in front of your home and work you wouldn't like them any more than mono. It's not like the occupy walstreet or g8 protestors got much love

I don't recall OWS having coherent aims.

[Grey Fox]

If people were protesting in front of your home and work you wouldn't like them any more than mono. It's not like the occupy walstreet or g8 protestors got much love

but they weren't protesting  a communist gov then.

[Jacob]

Personally I have no intention to censor Mono. I value his point of view, even as I find some of his ways of expressing it extremely distasteful. But honestly... what he's saying here isn't particularly off for many posts here on different subjects, even if there perhaps is some sort of ironic veneer of "humour".

But this...

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;

... just fuck off.

[crazy canuck]

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.

Uber is now in Toronto and is coming to Vancouver so he will have to go to Calgary to drive a cab.

[derspiess]

... just fuck off.

Did that seriously piss you off?  Why do you let him get in your head like that?

[Jacob]

... just fuck off.

Did that seriously piss you off?  Why do you let him get in your head like that?

Haha no, no pissing off. Just a "this is a complete waste of time and bankrupt in every way, but I can't be bothered coming up with a clever way to dismiss it so 'just fuck off' will have to do."

Thanks for the concern, though

[derspiess]

Ignoring it also works

[HVC]

Our Hillary.

i blame my phone. That's my story and I'm sticking to it

[celedhring]

A Japanese friend of mine has posted a photo of a demonstration in Tokyo in support of the Honk Kong protesters.

I get the feeling that's not gonna help...