How China Unleashed Twitter Trolls to Discredit Hong Kong’s Protesters

Re:How China Unleashed Twitter Trolls to Discredit Hong Kong... by alexron782 on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @05:44PM (#21010577)

Well, because the quality of life is indeed getting better and better in China. CCP successfully satisfied the fundamental need of people who were living under extreme poverty before right? Perhaps the next generation of Chinese people will start to demand more freedom, etc..

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Re:How China Unleashed Twitter Trolls to Discredit Hong Kong... by dragonwriter on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @06:05PM (#21010769)

> Well, because the quality of life is indeed getting better and better in China. CCP successfully satisfied the fundamental need of people who were living under extreme poverty before right?

That's a reason one might suspect that people would support the regime, but not an answer to the question asked in GP.

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Re:How China Unleashed Twitter Trolls to Discredit Hong Kong... by Retric on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @08:13PM (#21011920)

That would seem logical, but it’s less accurate than you might think. Revolutions actually become more common as society exists famine and extreme poverty.

The issue is when people start wanting more than food and shelter it becomes more apparent all the things they can’t buy like free speech, or more recently clean air.

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