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David Rovics moving quickly again

When you decide if he gets your critical support, the transphobia accusation is 100% legit.

But the stuff I hear about him not being socialist, grifting, opportunism... the man has held the same positions on Western Imperialism and worker's rights consistently since the 70s. Demonstrably so. Loudly so.

You can leave her questions via reddit or xitter

https://www.reddit.com/r/NewsWithJingjing/comments/1b3qha3/ama_about_china_dear_all_jingjing_here_are_you/

https://twitter.com/Jingjing_Li/status/1763575690346016974

This was a lecture given to foreign teachers, in English, by Miriam Lau - former member of the Legislative Council (Hong Kong's legislative branch of government) and former member of the National People's Congress.

The context of this lecture is that teachers in Hong Kong must now pass an exam showing sufficient understanding of the National Security Laws and its implementation, in order to apply for new jobs.

Note that Miriam Lau is not a Marxist-Leninist or Communist. She's a Pro-Beijing Conservative Liberal, and a solicitor (although there were a lot of snarky liberals in the audience that had no idea who she was and just assumed she was a Commie). However, there's a lot of useful information here for debunking the accusations libs make that the NSL destroys Hong Kong's freedoms.

One thing I learned from this lecture is that the Court of Final Appeal (HK's highest court) has the power of final adjudication in HK. You can't take your case to a higher court after the CFA makes a ruling. It's like if California didn't answer to the Supreme Court, had its own "Supreme Court of California" instead, and didn't have any nationality requirements for its judges apart from the Chief Justice, with most of the judges being foreigners. Compare that to any autonomous territory in any other country.

Part 1 - The Constitution, The Basic Law, and One Country Two Systems

Part 2 - National Security Law

(In this instance, legally safe ones)

I went to a lecture today entitled

Relationship between the PRC Constitution, the Hong Kong Basic Law, “One Country, Two Systems” and the Hong Kong National Security Law

and I wanted to share the slides, 'cos it was a good talk for anyone interested in how the National Security Law actually works, and it also introduces the basics of how the Central Government and Hong Kong regional government function (the lecture was for English speaking teachers in Hong Kong, so a lot of them were clueless). And a lot of useful facts to debunk accusations that HK's autonomy is fake.

The files are in pdf format.

Also the speaker was Miriam Lau, who used to be a member of the National People's Congress. First time I got to meet someone from China's highest organ of state power (but she's not communist though; she's a Beijing loyalist conservative).

edit: post is here

One of their games, China: Mao's Legacy is only HKD15 (less than 2 Euros) on Steam at the moment.

It looks like a political simulator playing as Hua Guofeng with a lot of historical narrative events that give you the option to deviate from what Hua actually did.

Obviously that kind of gaming experience will vary greatly depending on the ideology of its writers, so I'm wondering if anyone here has experience with them.

S02E03

Just sharing this info because it feels good to see it acknowledged.

edit: removed a spoiler because apparently the spoiler tags don't hide the text when the post appears in lists

My Surfshark subscription just ran out.

I found it a little sus when they removed their Russian endpoints after the Ukraine war started, so I don't want to renew with them. If they're going to bend the knee when it comes to US policies against Russia, where are they going to stand when the three-letter agencies ask for backdoors?

Open to any and all suggestions!

He started out as a comedian and satirical columnist in Hong Kong. As tensions in the city rose in 2019 he became outspokenly pro-China, pro-Socialism and pro-Community, and still managed to keep a cheerful, humorous vibe in all his work.