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Supposedly, there were even handbooks on how to crush these protests. Look at Belarus, Myanmar and Iran. So far the oppressors are winning.
by puppymaster 5y ago
Supposedly, there were even handbooks on how to crush these protests. Look at Belarus, Myanmar and Iran. So far the oppressors are winning.
- mc32 5y agoIt's almost tautological but "nice" oppressors are not going to win. They will be "taken advantage of" The opposition will duly detect the weakness and attack it. That's just the way it is and these regimes know that. If you're in the oppression business you have to be a bad one. We all wish there weren't oppressive regimes, but there are.
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- est 5y agoHong Kong’s Police Violence Is Stamped ‘Made in U.K.’ https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/07/18/hong-kongs-police-violence-is-stamped-made-in-u-k/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/07/18/hong-kongs-police-viole... Bonus: > the techniques were on full display in British police violence against miners during the 1984-1985 strike
- dismantlethesun 5y agoAre you implying that the current Chinese government should be forgiven for abusing its citizens because the British did something similar 35 years ago? I don’t mean to offend, but your comment is so short that I can tell what kind of context you are trying to add.
- guerrilla 5y agoNo, they are criticizing the UK.
- dismantlethesun 5y agoAh, got it. I had thought they were relying on moral relativism to downplay the actions of the Chinese government.
- fogihujy 5y agoNarh, the Chinese government's actions are unforgivable. As are the actions of others who did the same thing.
- est 5y agoI am implying that the current Chinese government simply kept the colonial style police force, probably unchanged for another 50 years.