These scenes are from early June. Amazing how our "free" media doesn't this stuff.
HK & Western media consistently reports "police brutality" oppressing "peaceful protests".
Most of the protesting has been peaceful, even illegal ones, but to say that the protesters did not initiate the violence is ludicrous. HK Police have been more restrained than any other police force in the world would have been.
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(Old Spike)
Today Twitter & Facebook have blocked ~1,000 acounts for posting stuff like the above, claiming that it's part of a coordinated disinformation campaign.
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Meanwhile NYTimes & the rest have been going ham with the fakenews of "police brutality" for the past 2 months with daily articles about tear gas (ignoring the events leading up to the tear gas) & all Western social media is flooded with the same "freedom fighter" narrative - this is what dominates the narrative on social media. If you don't play along you get accused of being some kind of bot/shill/heretic. It's happened to me several times on Twitter just for disagreeing with people & I've even been reported to some kind of military cyber command by some dumb cunt who thinks our hidden info ops teams need help.
/rant. for now.
(Old Spike)
Findings from a 2016 study into China-related bots on social media:
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When has a "peaceful" protest ever worked? Im really curious here and would like to know if a "peaceful" protest has ever had any effect. I understand a protest is supposed to create some kind of change or get notice by inconveniencing or shutting down "normal" societal functions, otherwise the protest is ineffective, and police are either going to let it happen in support of the protest or they will try to stop it so it does not have any effect.
(Old Spike)
It worked in HK around 9th June, it caused the government to drop the bill & apologize after hundreds of thousand of (mostly) peaceful protesters marched.
It also worked this week - today the HKSAR govt caved to 1 of the 5 demands after a huge peaceful protest a few days ago. They were in a violent stalemate for 2 months before that but since last week's scenes at the airport the anti-govt faction are in PR damage control mode. The demand they caved to was to investigate police misconduct, which I find pretty cynical because the HKPD seem to be the only innocent party in the mess there.
Civil disobedience can work better, depending on which state you're talking about but if you have a decent government & turn out in numbers a modern liberal democratic govt will usually listen, if for no other reason than to maintain polical control.
France is another example. Macron caved on a bunch of demands but it's apparently not enough for the YVs. Their protests have been relatively peaceful.
Where it doesn't seem to work: USA