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Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

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2525 points hownottowrite | 1 comments | 08 Oct 19 09:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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loceng ◴[08 Oct 19 12:30 UTC] No.21191490[source]▶
From Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/de1ysj/china_acc... -

"If you ever wondered how the whole world stood by and watched as the Nazis came to power and began committing atrocities here’s your answer."

The whole thread has similar commentary - along with morbid humor: "The next Disney movie will feature forced abortions to appease China."

Makes me think of brand names - who are still in existence today - who provided services, products, to similar regimes; Russell Brand Rips on GQ, Hugo Boss, referencing Syria War and Nazi Germany - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inB-6R1-4ng

Edit to add: Seems the pro-tyrants of China's leadership brigade is here: I had 2 upvotes, now at 0. Or if the people downvoting don't understand what's going on in China is akin to Nazi Germany then they're either indoctrinated in propaganda or haven't studied, analyzed, understood the situation adequately.

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grecy ◴[08 Oct 19 14:24 UTC] No.21192633[source]▶
The pro-china movement on HN is extremely strong. It's fun to look at all the pro-China commenters, and then look through the account history for how long their account has existed, the kind of articles they submit and their comments.

It couldn't be more obvious.

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1. duxup ◴[08 Oct 19 15:46 UTC] No.21193539[source]▶
I've run into it on Reddit over a period of time last year as well.

The key identifier for me was what seemed to be either a certain level of intellectual dishonestly, or a real language barrier as sometimes their responses felt like a misunderstanding ... and then the real kicker were the identical links to US news sources that inevitably involved some US college professor (they like those stories) but also didn't quite say what they thought the story said.

If it was a real language barrier it was kinda sad as it was clear they couldn't understand what I was saying in English and their response was sometimes equally baffling to me.