Chaos in Hong Kong as hundreds of masked men assault protesters, journalists
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Re: Chaos in Hong Kong as hundreds of masked men assault protesters, journalists
#2Lots of footage with clear faces, shouldn’t be very difficult to put names next to those.
Does anyone know of any co-ordinated efforts to do so?
Re: Chaos in Hong Kong as hundreds of masked men assault protesters, journalists
#3This follows protesters' siege of The Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
PS: I'm just stating a fact not endorsing anyone here. The "siege" of CCP office is a very bad move. They are hurting the face of the mainland, provided excuses and received the ruthless response this political machine was designed to do.
Re: Chaos in Hong Kong as hundreds of masked men assault protesters, journalists
#4Lots of footage with clear faces, shouldn’t be very difficult to put names next to those. Does anyone know of any co-ordinated efforts to do so?
https://reddit.com/r/hongkong has a lot of discussion and footage of these guys coordinating with the police, including them getting into vehicles with mainland license plates.
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#5I am very curious, but worried, of the situation in HK.
Concretely, it seems HKers can protest as much as they want, but when push comes to shove, the PRC will just end up crushing them and the parts of democracy they still have.
I can't imagine how they may get any other outcome. Even if I wish they could just gain independence, it seems unlikely, and it's not like any foreign power would go to war to protect HK.
Re: Chaos in Hong Kong as hundreds of masked men assault protesters, journalists
#6Lots of footage with clear faces, shouldn’t be very difficult to put names next to those. Does anyone know of any co-ordinated efforts to do so?
Is that really the right course of action, given the protests are a push back against China asserting control and surveillance over HK's citizens?
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#7Seems like they could use the 2nd amendment there.
Re: Chaos in Hong Kong as hundreds of masked men assault protesters, journalists
#8I am very curious, but worried, of the situation in HK. Concretely, it seems HKers can protest as much as they want, but when push comes to shove, the PRC will just end up crushing them and the parts of democracy they still have. I can't imagine how they may get any other outcome. Even if I wish they could just gain independence, it seems unlikely, and it's not like any foreign power would go to war to protect HK.
Back in... IIRC 2012 mainland regime tried to impose the PRC school curriculum, which includes a bunch of false things (Mao defeating the Japanese instead of Chiang Kai Shek) and obviously removes references to others (the Tiananmen massacre).
The teachers won and the PRC curriculum was never implemented.
Re: Chaos in Hong Kong as hundreds of masked men assault protesters, journalists
#9Back to low-tech solutions like paid mobs to control the situation.
People in HK use Chinese apps and Chinese intelligence probably has comprehensive mass surveillance system in place, but it could not predict recent events. Chinese and HK leaders were caught by surprise.
Re: Chaos in Hong Kong as hundreds of masked men assault protesters, journalists
#10I am very curious, but worried, of the situation in HK. Concretely, it seems HKers can protest as much as they want, but when push comes to shove, the PRC will just end up crushing them and the parts of democracy they still have. I can't imagine how they may get any other outcome. Even if I wish they could just gain independence, it seems unlikely, and it's not like any foreign power would go to war to protect HK.
>I can't imagine how they may get any other outcome.
There is one person who has made himself a big single point of failure for China.