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The Hong Kong protests were way over 3.5% with no change? 3.5% seems like an arbitrary threshold that's meant to be broken...

• permo-w 4y ago
  as another commenter pointed out, it may well have been over 3.5% of the Hong Kong population, but it was by no means over 3.5% of the Chinese population
  • willmadden 4y ago
    You just illustrated why this is a flimsy, social sciences, propaganda piece. 3.5% of what? There are international, national, provincial, and local authorities, each with different constituencies, all of which overlap to some degree. The preferred method of coup by powerful external forces who finance them are color revolutions - usually via arming violent extremist groups with controlled opposition leaders. That’s about all I need to know.
    • iso1337 4y ago
      The local HK government has no power, it is controlled by the CCP. So at least in this case, I can buy the argument. An American analogy of your argument would be something like “but >3.5% of LA wanted policy XYZ, why didn’t it work”
    • permo-w 4y ago
      3.5% of a population under the jurisdiction of a protested government
  • d0mine 4y ago
    By this logic, you would need more than 350 millions protesters to affect policy regarding climate change (global industry interests). -- used 10B world population for simplicity.
    • s1artibartfast 4y ago
      Yes. Or at least 3.5% or your nation for national policy
    • permo-w 4y ago
      the article didn’t state that you need 3.5%, just that 3.5% is a number after which you’re practically guaranteed success