• Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        you make it as though right to self-determination doesn’t matter

        Did it for Hong Kong?

        They do not identify as British, and Hong Kong is legally ceded back to China as part of 99 year lease deal between UK and China.

        But the residents didn’t want to go to China, they wanted to exercise their “self-determination” and stay British, exactly what you’ve been advocating in your argument for the Falklands residents and Argentina and ownership staying with Great Britain.

        Its very hypocritical to not apply the same thing to both circumstances.

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            10 months ago

            It would be more believable if you could recite a source that is not from a UK based organization.

            From everything I’ve seen on TV people did not want to belong to a Communist country, and were fearful. The intellectuals were fleeing/fled the country, and the young have been protesting as China cracks down on their freedoms/rights (they had to move trools into a garrison inside of Hong Kong over the law changes/protests).

            This was from watching American news, so it may have just been that slant colored the news being show, you can never tell, but the videos I saw seemed straightforward.

            On a tangent, I’m going to “bow out” of further replies. I’ve been at this for coming up on 24 hours now, and am tired of everyone wanting their “pound of flesh”, and have said pretty much everything I can say. No disrespect meant to you, just thing the conversation has reached a termination point. Take care.