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Re:China signals plan to take full control of Hong Kong by pnako on Thursday May 21, 2020 @01:01PM (#23261080)
Why not? It worked in Vietnam, it worked in Afghanistan.

Guns work. "Political power comes out of the barrel of a gun", said Mao.

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Re:China signals plan to take full control of Hong Kong by bpodgursky on Thursday May 21, 2020 @01:32PM (#23261670)
It worked in the US, even without shooting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundy_standoff)

(independent of whether you think the Bundys were in the right, the fact is, armed ranchers did deter armed BLM intervention, basically indefinitely)

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