Context: Protesters storming their federal government legislative building. During this period of the riots protesters overwhelmed the bodyguards of and killed several cabinets members in home invasions.
What's specifically Orwellian in 'em? 'Dystopian' is what I'd describe them as.
Aaron Young
was he on fire?
Nathaniel Powell
Shit, now that you mention it I should be in the gas mask and umbrella business. You are right. Something about orange light has that gritty feel. No it's a man being hit by two water cannons and pepper sprayed because he doesn't like the extradition bill in HK.
This Wednesday Kyrgyzian special forces tried to assault the residence of ex-president Atambaev. They failed, as he barricaded in a room and held up until the locals arrived. They were captured and beaten by locals instead. Next day Atambaev voluntarily surrendered.
Makes sense. You can use them as a club and still have a legitimate excuse for carrying them to a protest. Kinda like how yanks do with their flags.
Dominic Sanders
How long until the Chinese government just says 'fuck it' and kills everyone in the street, then deports the rest out to Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang?
Cameron White
in for the win
late night bonglanders where we at
Jack Nguyen
To much international attention, they can’t pull another Tiananmen Square.
Henry Johnson
Ethnically and racially, they are still Ching-Chongians.
Dominic Thompson
china actually has to care about its image a LITTLE these days when the public is watching, since they're basically just one big corrupt corporate oligarchy that has to worry about selling its services to the world.
once the cameras turn away, rest assured every HKer will be liberated of their kidneys.
This one is somewhat interesting, the riot cops trapped a large number of protesters inside a mall with the intention of arresting them but it turned into a "You're trapped in here with me" type of thing and both sides ended up beating the shit out of eachother.
I think I disagree with you. Not that it would be nice for the US to have a riot culture but the assumption that we have one. With the exception of sports riots, the purpose of a riot is aggressive assemble with enough purpose and motivation to affect change in leadership and government. A good example in the modern era is the Yellow Vests in France. They got mad, the government made concessions. Obviously no one over there is satisfied but it did change things marginally and get the cogs turning. France had to come to the realization that some of it's domestic problems were so great it couldn't carry out the agenda they had planned. I don't see any of that in the United states. Antifa scrapping it up with some fascists hasn't motivated any kind of change or self analysis in US policy other than people lamenting the death of civil discourse over and over on cable news. I think that has to do with the fact that antifa is trivial and small and so is the alt-right types they scrap with. Neither are popular movements mobilizing tens of thousands. The government just gets to crackdown, throw some folks in jail and carry on with the status quo. Let me know if you disagree.
I do not think that HK even armed could resist the mainland. The Hong Kongers are riding a very desperate line between being just aggressive enough to affect change but not instigate a crackdown. If they started racking up bodies the PRC would have exactly the excuse it would need to use the force necessary to make them submit, which for them would be a win.