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Re:China’s assault on Cathay Pacific by joelx on Friday August 23, 2019 @06:11PM (#20783190)
We need to evacuate Hong Kong and find other ways to fight against China's totalitarian government.

HN also needs to very carefully assess potential shill accounts.

Re:China’s assault on Cathay Pacific by dang on Saturday August 24, 2019 @05:50PM (#20789929)
Please don't insinuate astroturfing or shillage without evidence. This breaks the site guidelines, for reasons that I have tried to explain at great length for years; https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....

Someone else posting an opposing view does not count as evidence. Commenters are overwhelmingly too quick to jump to conclusions about that, and end up poisoning the threads worse because of it.

Re:China’s assault on Cathay Pacific by heavenlyblue on Friday August 23, 2019 @07:50PM (#20784000)
We need... And what exactly is the chance that we will?

I mean, Europe needed to settle 2 million refugees from Syria and how exactly did that turn out for everyone?

Re:China’s assault on Cathay Pacific by wbl on Friday August 23, 2019 @09:07PM (#20784460)
Other the European racism what was the problem? The US could use a few million people who work hard and believe in democracy.
Re:China’s assault on Cathay Pacific by tinco on Saturday August 24, 2019 @04:38AM (#20786016)
Mexicans you mean? People from Syria can not be simply compared to people from Mexico, there is nothing racist about Europe's hesitance to accept more Islamic immigrants. To start with a significant part of them most definitely does not believe in the sort of democracy we maintain.
Re:China’s assault on Cathay Pacific by joelx on Saturday August 24, 2019 @08:43AM (#20786812)
We can cut off illegal immigration by fixing the problem at the source. Illegal immigrants in many cases are fleeing oppressive regimes and evil dictatorships. We have the largest military on Earth. Let’s use it to help overthrow evil dictatorships in countries like Venezuela and combat drug gangs in Columbia. Let’s give these people free governments. Then they will have no reason to flee and try to emigrate illegally to the United States.
Re:China’s assault on Cathay Pacific by tinco on Saturday August 24, 2019 @01:54PM (#20788584)
If you could defeat a drug gang with military power, then Mexico would have done it by now.