Notice how there is next to no discussion about material conditions before and after China's tightened grip on HK other than a few people saying that basically nothing has changed and that the city is still perfectly fine for most people other than covid annoyances that exist basically everywhere now.
Even the guy explaining that Chinese people are satisfied with Xi is couching it in "there's no Democracy" BS. 70% of Chinese people describe their country as democratic, compared to about 50% of Americans.
These people unironically believe that the ideal democracy is one where everybody is mad at the government all the time because that means that neither "side" (as in, left and right-leaning people) is satisfied at the expense of the other. But this literally only works if you believe that the wealthy are part of regular society with the same interests and frustrations and concerns as the rest of us, instead of being above it and dictating almost everything - and they are pretty happy with the current state of things at the expense of 99.9% of people on this planet (and also the continued existence of advanced human civilization with bountiful ecology and a climate within tolerable limits).