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plawolf
Lieutenant General
Anyone who knows anything about flashbangs will know how irresponsible it was to use them like that.
Even close proximity detonations can cause permanent blindness and deafness. Firing into a packed crowd like that, you can be sure there will be a lot of people who just suffered pretty serious and potentially life altering injuries just there.
Even close proximity detonations can cause permanent blindness and deafness. Firing into a packed crowd like that, you can be sure there will be a lot of people who just suffered pretty serious and potentially life altering injuries just there.
solarz
Brigadier
Nothing about American police surprises me anymore. A few years back, they broke into a home and threw a flashbang into a toddler's crib, causing life threatening injuries to the child.
Outside of the rare westerner who can see past the propaganda and decades of brainwashing, none of this matters and none of this will be applied to some internal re-evaluation of the struggle between China and the western world or authoritarianism and liberal democracy.
The fact that the HK protest movement is introducing the idea that HK is actually a part of the US (in some parts of social media) and continue to wave Union Jacks and US flags, shows us just how strong American soft power really is. They are cashing in on the global brainwashing since the Cold War I. They can lay waste to people who are in a violent love affair with "liberal democracy" and it doesn't even matter what the realities on the ground are like. History matters less to these people. If they can lay waste to liberal democracies in the middle east and Ukraine-Russia, they can overrun HK with ideology when the rulers are authoritarian on paper and in practice. The easiest and most available tool they apply is the fact that China and the CCP are far from perfect, even when you ignore its authoritarianism. While the US has been socially developed, wealthy, and "kind" for so long. People ignore the journey, the trends, and the progress, instead focus on ideological dogma and the destination. You can't "win over" people like that. Better to ignore them, nod when they spill their programmed drivel, and focus of matters that actually matter. Put your money where your mouth is and get on with life. As important as documenting and sharing these things are, it's no cause for celebration.
This doesn't mean we shouldn't all be observant, resilient, and notice these changes and when the western world exposes itself. These images hopefully become the Tiananmen protest symbols for the US in the 21st century... proving their governance is 30 years behind the CCP of the 1980s but of course it's not the same!
The fact that the HK protest movement is introducing the idea that HK is actually a part of the US (in some parts of social media) and continue to wave Union Jacks and US flags, shows us just how strong American soft power really is. They are cashing in on the global brainwashing since the Cold War I. They can lay waste to people who are in a violent love affair with "liberal democracy" and it doesn't even matter what the realities on the ground are like. History matters less to these people. If they can lay waste to liberal democracies in the middle east and Ukraine-Russia, they can overrun HK with ideology when the rulers are authoritarian on paper and in practice. The easiest and most available tool they apply is the fact that China and the CCP are far from perfect, even when you ignore its authoritarianism. While the US has been socially developed, wealthy, and "kind" for so long. People ignore the journey, the trends, and the progress, instead focus on ideological dogma and the destination. You can't "win over" people like that. Better to ignore them, nod when they spill their programmed drivel, and focus of matters that actually matter. Put your money where your mouth is and get on with life. As important as documenting and sharing these things are, it's no cause for celebration.
This doesn't mean we shouldn't all be observant, resilient, and notice these changes and when the western world exposes itself. These images hopefully become the Tiananmen protest symbols for the US in the 21st century... proving their governance is 30 years behind the CCP of the 1980s but of course it's not the same!
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solarz
Brigadier
I don't think American soft power is that strong, I think it's just that social media are echo chambers so depending on your mainstream culture, you are bombarded with the same narrative all the time.
Those HK insurgents are not good indicators of anything. They're just desperate for renewed funding now that China cut off all their old funding routes.
SteelBird
Colonel
What American politicians used to praise about Hong Kong now happen in their own home land. Is this what we call Karma?
He's an Uncle Chang. The type of guy who would join the colonial police to oppress his own people
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
What's the woman singing at 07:10?
I've been to that Best Buy they show being broken into. It's Emeryville close to Pixar Studios. It's a small town and the police were simply overwhelmed and literally could do nothing. It's a stretch of various stores along that area and all the stores there were being broken into.
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It's a light hearted take on the violent and looting aspect of the protests, sung as a parody to the 1987 Leslie Cheung song
, which itself is a cover of an original Japanese song.