So instead, they should just sit there nicely and be swallowed into the largest communist police state in the world, a country notoriously[0] less free than the

So instead, they should just sit there nicely and be swallowed into the largest communist police state in the world, a country notoriously[0] less free than the current government[1]? > They protest against what I'm guessing it's pretty clear, HK is against being reincorporated into mainland. Gilet jaune seems to be against the direction of law making in current French government (namely, tax the rich less and the poor more). The "young people" for more actions against pollution. > They protest, and they go nowhere ... What do you suggest they do instead, if they are not fine with that? You're protesting against them on an online forum, this is so much better. Protests have an actual effect on policy making[3], if only to rally people and express the vox populi, especially when said people doesn't have another to express itself than casting a general paper that gives a name, not an intent, into a box, with very long periodicity ; or don't have that luxury (e.g. Hong Kong in that case) [0] https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2019/china https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2019/china [1] https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2019/hong-kong https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2019/hong-kong [2] https://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/dshoag/Documents/Political%20Protests%20--%20Evidence%20from%20the%20Tea%20Party.pdf https://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/dshoag/Documents/Political%20... /edit: fixing a url/