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Sandor_06 t1_jdlhcey wrote

It's hard not to when you lived through their rise. My grandparents used to cook with an actual fire fueled by wood. Now he's happily living off of his retirement installing auto fish feeders in his pond. He didn't work any fancy jobs either. He was just a factory worker in a tape factory. You just can't convince someone in his generation that the political party that brought him out of the shittest living conditions is somehow bad.

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Hippobu2 t1_jdm1cqa wrote

Still, I'd assume someone based in Hong Kong before 1997 would be a tad more anti-mainland tbh. Heck, even now, I wouldn't think that most people in Hong Kong are exactly supportive of the CCP.

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halrold t1_jdmmmxg wrote

Lmao my guy, the dude was born in HK and literally saw the elevation of HK from a poor backwater port city into a international economic hub by not the CCP but the British government. The kicker is his dad had fled to Hong Kong because he had been a spy for the KMT during the Chinese Civil War. He's a shill for the side his family had fought against. Jackie Chan is a CCP lapdog and I haven't even gotten into his personal life.

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