the problem with hexbear is the same handful of users that have made it their hobby to complain incessantly about hexbear all over the fediverse

🤓 elitism

https://www youtube.com/shorts/QPnJveJLq_4

Interview snippet for the incredulous deboonkers

Some of the arguments/memes I’m seen there are been shared by conservatives, using the same talking points

such as…? People can’t respond if you keep being vague about it.

objectively the moderate wing

Recycle! Write to your senator! Vote!

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this article is traitorous

West Taiwan -100000 social credit DAE Xinnie? XD

Curious

Global Times is published by People’s Daily though?

It’s real. The party’s own newspaper is reporting on the objections to it during this “soliciting feedback” phase of legislating.

Edit: Actually, it’s more of an affiliate of the party’s official newspaper.

Max says fuck cars 10/10

Yeah that’s a silly article. Strange that a supposed “tankie” would post something that pushes the Chinese lab leak conspiracy though, especially from an outlet run by an NYT liberal like Bari Weiss.

peddling covid conspiracies

like what?

Chaak-ming Lau, an assistant professor of linguistics at the Education University of Hong Kong, believes that despite increased use of Mandarin in Hong Kong society, the city is not at risk of losing Cantonese. In Hong Kong’s 2021 census, over 6.3 million people aged 5 and up still have Cantonese as their usual spoken language. The Hong Kong government’s official stance is promoting biliteracy in English and written Chinese, and trilingualism in English, Putonghua, and Cantonese. And in the Ethnologue, the world’s most comprehensive catalog of languages, Cantonese—as part of the Yue Chinese family—has “institutional vitality,” which means communities and institutions use it extensively. “Cantonese is very far from being endangered,” Lau tells TIME.

6.3 million out of 7 million people still use it as their main language. I can see how calling for the “preservation of Cantonese” could be viewed as a separatist dogwhistle. The essay that caught the attention of the government was one that described the future of Hong Kong as one where Cantonese and local culture is all but wiped out by the mainland government in 20 years. One character in the story calls the protagonist who grew up in England “more qualified to be a Hong Konger than any of us” because they were saved from the see see pee mind virus. It’s very funny.

Where was it mentioned that they sold a subscription to access to copyrighted materials? They sold a subscription to their web archiving service.

common osprey W

21 > 1.6

If you’re only looking at the “immediate action” options it’s 4.5% independence vs 1.6% unification

Grouping the camps together, the graph shows 25% vs 8% currently while not too long ago in 2018 it was 20% vs 16%. It’s a contentious issue, and opinions wax and wane depending on the diplomatic situation with the only consistency being that the majority of people favor maintaining the status quo. However, I think as more of the older generations die off, much like in South Korea, identification with a cross-border national project will likely diminish.

The DPP (pro-Independence party) polling seems to differ a bit from National Chengchi University’s yearly poll where “maintain status quo indefinitely/decide later” were the two most popular selections.