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Hong Kong’s top court rules in favour of legal recognition for same-sex couples
(www.theguardian.com)
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Wait until the population declines further and the CCP tightens its grip even more over Hong Kong. I doubt this'll last. It's just how authoritarian communist regimes work. Look at Putin and co. for examples.
you guys have a really weird fantasy of what China is actually like
China has increasingly gone the direction of official cultural conservatism.
more so than the US you reckon?
The US is not the topic here. Why bring it up?
Whataboutism - when you don't have an argument, just say "what about the US"
Typical Tankie deflection.
Yes. More than the US.
Exactly. Even the response to their whataboutism doesn’t help their point.
I don't understand this reasoning at all.
Yeah. A lot of people here live in fantasy worlds.
I'm always just laughing to myself whenever I see them speculate wild things like this. They're just not rooted in reality.
I'm from Hong Kong. This is reality.
Condescension and smugness doesn't make you sound correct. It just makes sound misinformed and willfully ignorant.
I'm from Hong Kong too and he's completely wrong.
Are you talking about yourself?
Spoken like a true pro-CCP mainlander who's mom came over to give birth and reap all the social benefits while actively voting to tear down all the democratic institutions.
Nope. I'm none of that. Stop with your assumptions and try again.
Lol, the fantasy worlds on this subreddit. Or lemmy thing.
Go back to hexbear or wherever you came from and kindly defederate yourself.
Lol, I came from lemmy.world.
China allows same sex relationships. This HK ruling actually puts it in line with what China already does for 4 years now.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2019-08-09/LGBT-couples-in-China-file-for-voluntary-guardianship-J15eC8QcrC/index.html
It's saying HK needs recognition similar to what China already does with mutual guardianship. So your argument makes no sense. As HK is following China on this one.
Mainland:
HK:
These are vastly different things.