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[therun.gg @therungg]

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[Yotta @yottayott]

Yatta-

[Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze]

Everything you need to know about our media is summed up in these Olympics.

Journalists grill American athletes about a "rising fascism" in the United States.

Meanwhile an American who takes millions of dollars to ski for an actual authoritarian communist dictatorship with concentration camps and zero free speech is treated like a beautified celebrity.

This is who our media is.

[Russ Read @RussCanRead]

@Olympics @FISfreestyle Does the CCP pay you guys per post or something?

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

"I'd rather we ally with CHINA than the UNITED STATES"

This British Woman says possibly the dumbest thing in Question Time History.

This is what happens when you have a failing education system that promotes Marxism and a leftist media

Clearly she's as dumb as a box of rocks

[Tom Grundy @tomgrundy]

#HongKong has recorded over 40,000 invalid ballots – or 3.12 per cent of all votes cast in the geographical constituencies – during Sunday’s “patriots only” legislative elections, a new high since the 1997 Handover.

https://t.co/o2yKLGb3r9

Urging blank/protest ballots is illegal. Casting one is not.

[Kevin Yam 任建峰 @kevinkfyam]

TO WESTERN MEDIA: don’t just report that the voter turnout rate in yesterday’s “patriots only” Hong Kong LegCo elections was “better” than that of 2021:

1. Fewer votes were cast yesterday than in 2021 so the higher turnout rate is a result of there being fewer registered voters since 2021; and

2. This turnout rate is still a lot lower than back when LegCo elections were semi-competitive.

[Kevin Yam 任建峰 @kevinkfyam]

The Hong Kong National Security Office has announced that in targeting “fake news” and “smears” over the Tai Po fire, it has arranged to speak with local and foreign news organisation journalists and heads “in accordance with law”.

Just pure insanity.

[Samuel Bickett @SamuelBickett]

According to the latest data, 42 percent of people in Hong Kong’s prisons are now on remand (unconvicted and presumed innocent)—a new record.

HT @webbhk

[Li Yuan袁莉 @LiYuan6]

After deadly fire, HK authorities showed it has adopted a crisis-management playbook that the CCP has relied on since the Tiananmen massacre in 1989. My latest https://t.co/jIuv2AQsjE

[Kris Cheng @krislc]

An influencer in Hong Kong apparently silenced, not talking to foreigners — after the Beijing and Hong Kong governments took a tougher line on comments over the fire

[Kevin Yam 任建峰 @kevinkfyam]

When the fire first happened, apart from a few sensationalist overseas-based HK YouTube influencers, most activists (myself included) actually asked for everyone to focus on rescue, helping the displaced and mourning the dead, and leave questions of accountability to another time. Overseas activists generally did not want any discussion of “political” aspects of the disaster to detract from rescue, relief and mourning.

But then the following happened rapidly which changed things:

- The Government rushed to blame bamboo scaffolding before investigating anything.

- The Chief Executive decided to thank Xi Jinping rather than the firefighters.

- Government-backed volunteers were caught being only interested in photo opportunities for propaganda purposes while ordinary citizens were busy taking things into their own hands and delivering help to the displaced efficiently.

- Government-backed volunteers then started working with the Government and the Police to kick out citizen volunteers while also trying to commandeer their supplies.

- State-friendly media outlets started flooding the zone with “heartwarming” stories about Government efforts, reminding HK people of the insensitive Mainland Chinese propaganda practice of “treating mourning as celebration” (喪事當喜事辦).

- Even while HK is still in mourning, both Beijing and HK decided to treat all calls for thorough investigation and accountability as national security threats, and started arresting people merely for calling for things that are no different to what Grenfell Tower survivors asked for.

- The Government decided not to launch a statutory independent commission of inquiry with full powers to compel production of documents and giving of evidence, opting for a “review committee” with no powers.

So, no, it’s not “external hostile forces” that “use the disaster to destabilise HK” (以災亂港), it’s the muppets in Beijing and HK Government that are doing so.

[Tend 🇭🇰 @TendHK]

The bodies haven’t even been fully identified and the CCP’s mouthpieces are already back to their usual bullshit.
If helping your own somehow violates national security, then maybe that nation shouldn’t exist.

[Terence Shen @Terenceshen]

The British turned Hong Kong into Asia’s World City, and CCP government has turned it into just another Chinese city.

[Frances Hui 許穎婷 @frances_hui]

The arrest of the student who launched a petition over the deadly Tai Po fire shows how little free speech #HongKong really has. The CCP tolerates mourning, but anyone who dares to seek accountability or hold criticism is treated as a "national security" threat and crushed.

[Finn Lau 劉祖廸 @finnlau_cd]

3 days after the fire outbreak, Hong Kong National Security Police arrested a student who initiated an online petition with 4 demands:
‘1. Keep supporting affected residents & ensure proper rehousing
2. Set up an independent inquiry into the fire, incl. suspected collusion
(1/3)

[Samuel Bickett @SamuelBickett]

The fire disaster in Hong Kong is a big test of whether there is any space for public advocacy left in the city. So far, it seems not: a student who organized a mild petition calling for official accountability has been arrested.

[Melissa Chan @melissakchan]

The Hong Kong fires is a political story, not a bamboo tragedy. It is about what happens when institutions are no longer accountable because of the erosion of the rule of law. When a government focuses on controlling the people, not serving them. When civil society is crushed.

[Luke de Pulford @lukedepulford]

Hong Kong’s CCP puppets so terrified of civil society that they will not even let people assist fire victims, let alone demand to know why so many people died in a preventable tragedy.

[Joyce Cheng @joyceccontact]

There are no investigations so far suggesting the scaffolding caused the fire. The bamboo angle has been widely used by state media in China. When global outlets adopt this framing uncritically, it distracts the public from questions of corruption & accountability.