The Siege of Carrie Lam

Re:The Siege of Carrie Lam by smhost on Friday December 06, 2019 @04:26AM (#21720286)

Hong Kong isn't a people's revolution. There are contradicting forces operating within the protesters, and if they succeed (which of course I hope they do), the people will soon realize that they've swapped out one master for another.

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Re:The Siege of Carrie Lam by extra88 on Friday December 06, 2019 @04:38AM (#21720334)

Don’t be such a tease, who would this other master be?

Any large movement has divisions within it with different priorities.

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Re:The Siege of Carrie Lam by treden on Friday December 06, 2019 @04:44AM (#21720363)

And what other master is comparable (in demonstrated authoritarianism, number of tanks, willingness to roll said tanks, etc...) to the Chinese communist party?

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Re:The Siege of Carrie Lam by fieryscribe on Friday December 06, 2019 @06:36AM (#21720898)

If you believe the CIA is behind this via Jimmy Lai and others, as many Mainlanders do, you should actually talk to some protestors. This is purely local.

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Re:The Siege of Carrie Lam by devocracy on Friday December 06, 2019 @06:22AM (#21720810)

It sure would be "unfortunate" if they replaced autocratic rule with a representative democracy.

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