Hong Kong’s oldest and largest pro-democracy political party is moving to disband as Beijing’s sweeping crackdown on the city leaves even moderate opposition groups with no room to operate.

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  • Subdivide6857@midwest.socialEnglish
    2543·
    4 days ago

    Hong Kong’s oldest and largest pro-democracy Capitalism political party is moving to disband

    Sounds like a reason to celebrate.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
      1910·
      4 days ago

      Of course! Dictatorship won’t through terror and torture, that always is a cause to celebrate because the group that lost might be your personal pet peeve.

      You’re an idiot, tankie

        • CMonster@discuss.onlineEnglish
          105·
          3 days ago

          If you had more than a single iota of geopolitical knowledge you would understand how fucking dumb that statement is.

        • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
          64·
          3 days ago

          Huh. What? I am definitely not coming to the defense of capitalism. Just trying to help you understand that it’s noy a relevant factor here.

          Your original comment is confused at best. China is communist in many ways but absolutely has a thriving capitalist based economy. The idea that the CCP would be threatened by a “capitalist party” is incoherent and silly.

          You’re making some super huge leaps and I’m not sure why.

          • bloubz@lemmygrad.ml
            61·
            3 days ago

            Why do you think China has a capitalist economy? Because it is thriving? It is indeed! But this is unrelated to capitalism. Capitalism is not economy good and international market access, socialism share potato and live happily.

            Capitalism is the control of means of production by a few individuals and exploitation of the workers enabled by this private possession. In China, the small and medium companies are allowed to be private but the bigger companies or the ones in critical fields are nationalized. Something like 80% of investment firms are public as well

            You can read more on this wiki: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/People's_Republic_of_China

          • Subdivide6857@midwest.socialEnglish
            58·
            3 days ago

            I never said they were threatened. If anyone is making huge leaps, it would be you. You’re making big assumptions based on two sentences. An American media company publishes an article about a dying liberal party in China as if that’s a bad thing. It’s only capitalistic when it’s convenient for you libturds. Otherwise, it’s a “scary state run Chinese company.” I never said capitalism doesn’t exist in the country. You have a funny way of “helping.”

            • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
              72·
              3 days ago

              thing. It’s only capitalistic when it’s convenient for you libturds. Otherwise, it’s a “scary state run Chinese company"

              🙄

              Okay. Sounds good. You’re on a war path against the stereotyped strawman you’ve set up, so I don’t really need to be involved anymore. Carry on. Idc.