• @naturalgasbad
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    2024 days ago

    Why is this escalating so much faster than the 1989 Chinese democracy protests or the 2019 Hong Kong protests? In those cases, it took weeks for arrests to happen and months for force to be deployed. Most law enforcement in those cases were unarmed.

          • @[email protected]
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            23 days ago

            Derp. I’d entirely forgotten about the red guard while writing that. In terms of enforcing the revolution.

            …And every other police state for that matter.

            Thanks.

            • @[email protected]M
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              123 days ago

              Sorry, are you saying red guards enforced every other police state? Or that all police states exist to protect the revolution? Both statements seem very nonsensical

              • @[email protected]
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                123 days ago

                Sorry, I wrote that when I was tired.

                All police states exist to enforce their own states… Which is a bit of a tautology so just ignore that bit.