CHYNA frothingfash

Feels like back in the 90’s people were a bit more chill and didn’t go into a genocidal lunatic rage at the mere mention of the country. Wild to think people used to get down with hong kong action movies.

  • Des [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    5 months ago

    my grandfather used to describe Hong Kong as like this burning ember of liberal market capitalism that would basically spread across China eventually. that they would become addicted to the wealth generated there and replicate it everywhere (this was in the 90s).

    he couldn’t predict how utterly irrelevant Hong Kong would become