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Re:Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 20 years' jail by FatherOfCurses on Monday February 09, 2026 @12:06PM (#46947737)
Only if you take a sixth-grader's view of geopolitics.

People can say that the Western world should do more to promote democracy in China (or not financially enable China to suppress its people) while at the same time saying that invading a country and kidnapping its leader is not the way to solve a similar problem.

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Re:Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 20 years' jail by takklob on Monday February 09, 2026 @12:13PM (#46947838)
> Only if you take a sixth-grader's view of geopolitics.

The problem of democracy indeed. Many of these people now yearn to be peasants too. A simpler life for a simpler mind. Perhaps they should be given what they want.

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