If anyone wondered what would have happened in the US if the US had a wave of protests similar to Hong Kong… This is what would have happened. In fact, this protest seems better organized, more structured, and a little awe inspiring to be honest
Now the question is if the students can organize en masse and march on the capital to occupy the Capitol.
HK was hugely coordinated though. It would be like if not just a campus but the whole city was in on it because they knew they didn’t have a choice, and the tactics were more specific to what would work against the CCP, not the US. If it was in another country that wasn’t an oppressive autocracy, it would probably have been very effective.
Edit: hey downvote if you want, but tell me something like this doesn’t take coordination:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/23/hong-kong-protesters-join-hands-in-30-mile-human-chain
This is… Not evidence of coordination, but of network effects. The same reason that hockey fans descending into a riot after losing Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals is not an indication that they organized a riot.
That’s exactly what they should do. Take this energy to DC and storm the Capital.
You guys really try to use that to make it less of an issue.
Man you’re fucking stupid if you’re anything but a troll or this is a bad joke. The capital building is just a building. Taking control of it does nothing. It’s just a good way to destroy a movement. You don’t put all of your biggest followers into a group to do something illegal in a way that makes them easy to track and follow, especially when achieving victory still does nothing except getting you arrested or killed a little while after and doing nothing.
Congress can operate operate out of any building. They operate out of that one by tradition. It doesn’t hold any power itself. If you take it then now you have control of a perfectly normal building, not something powerful.
Blue state, blue governor, blue mayor, blue senators, you physically cannot get more blue if you tried.
And yet, here we are
“…a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.”
“Blue mayor” and “Blue governor” are REALLY stretching the definition here… with a healthy push from the ever shifting Overton window.
Look at actions, not words or badges that people pin to their own lapels without earning them.
They’re members of the Democratic party. They are, by definition, blue.
They are a reddish shade of purple, at best.
US Supreme Court justices are, by definition, the highest arbiters of truth in the US… BUT the definition is clearly trailing the reality.
Actions, not words.
Maybe if we vote more blue, this won’t happen again…
Regardless of what side of the issue being protested you are on if you are in favor of cops in riot gear breaking up a peaceful protest, you are a traitor to our country.
It’s that simple. You cannot stand for American values and cheer that a peaceful protest was dismantled by government goons.
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Lul indeed. I wonder what would be the result if someone asked the world what ‘American values’ are …
… or if we asked historians.
Keep fighting, my brothers and sisters.
ACAB
'Gotta act fast if we want to continue supporting genocide.
Where’s the next Kent State? The weapons and armor are much bigger this time.
Ohio is red these days and the college still exists, don’t take away their shots at history!
The Bell Riots - September 2024
Funny how whenever literal nazis gather and protest cops are nowhere to be found
No, they’re there, just not in uniform.
Smoke more pork
Bacon for breakfast
This referred to CUNY a few times. I thought that, City University of New York, was a different institution, and I got the impression the article was referring to Columbia University as CUNY. Maybe I missed something?
