The Essential Tool for Hong Kong Protesters? An Umbrella

Re:The Essential Tool for Hong Kong Protesters? An Umbrella by xwolfi on Saturday September 21, 2019 @07:44AM (#21034734)

Honestly, right now, the "unfairness of life" is the closest to a coherent message I can interpret from their "movement".

It was really a tense and passionate debate 2 months ago, but now many of us just roll our eyes at the latest news, like when they shave people who clean the streets, burn an MTR station, cry in a foreign country they need to be "freed", and the like...

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Re:The Essential Tool for Hong Kong Protesters? An Umbrella by barkxyz on Saturday September 21, 2019 @08:28AM (#21034925)

Seems a little bit unfair not to mention the five demands in this context: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/13/what-do-the-ho...

If you really want to "interpret" the message of their movement, that would seem like a good place to start.

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Re:The Essential Tool for Hong Kong Protesters? An Umbrella by 77546throw on Saturday September 21, 2019 @11:46AM (#21036000)

I’m actually surprised by how professional the police are acting.

The protesters are throwing Molotovs and yet no one has been killed.

After 2 months of riots, the police have been very reserved in there actions compared to other SWAT happy countries.

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Re:The Essential Tool for Hong Kong Protesters? An Umbrella by trevyn on Saturday September 21, 2019 @07:50AM (#21034753)

Is the message closer to “we reject the terms of the social contract that we’re being offered”?

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