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    9 days ago

    You should be aware if you and your friends want to do the bottom half of the picture, you can organize and go to any of the protests and fuck shit up.

    In fact the large side of the crowd is what makes it possible to conduct more disruptive acts. Those people are at best your allies and at worst your sheep providing cover.

    What are you complaining on about - go do it.





  • My understanding was that there was some push back and political/police violence but the Chinese state largely let it play out and then within a month or two made mass arrests of the organizers.

    This was a broadly supported movement, impressive in its size and unity.

    The strategy Xi used was to not over emphasize the level of public support through direct confrontation - but to wipe out all resistance when the “controlled” energy of the crowd has somewhat dissipated.

    Lesson for the current environment in the US: have a long term strategy tied to your goals, put very high degrees of pressure on specific state actors / functions that they cannot ignore or wait out