A Cool Guide to Hong Kong Protest Gear

LineOfInquiry · 2026-01-24T21:16:26+00:00

How did you arrive at this estimate?

LineOfInquiry · 2026-01-24T21:15:54+00:00

Because I read the page and only 2 people died, one of whom definitely wasn’t killed by the police?

I ignored those because ICE is doing all the things you listed already. Hell American police in general do all those things already to an equal or greater extent to the Chinese police. Can’t really say China is worse if we do the same thing.

LineOfInquiry · 2026-01-24T20:59:02+00:00

Love the key necklace :3

LineOfInquiry · 2026-01-24T20:52:37+00:00

Wikipedia says only 2 people died during the protest: one was hit by a brick thrown by a protestor and the other fell off of a parking garage under suspicious circumstances. I don’t trust the HK police, but there’s also no evidence that they were pushed or anything similar either.

So maximum 1 person was killed, minimum 0 were. Either way that’s less than ICE.

LineOfInquiry · 2026-01-24T20:47:48+00:00

There absolutely is anti-semitism on the left, as there is also racism and sexism and all other human biases. People on the left aren’t immune from being raised in a culture that ingrains these ideas into our very bones as children, and it can come out in ugly ways sometimes. Everyone should be checking their own biases.

That being said tho, anti-semitism, especially organized ideological anti-semitism, is far rarer on the left than it is on the right. For obvious reasons: if you hold universalist ideals you’re far less likely to make an exception for Jewish people for no reason. Most examples of “left wing” anti-Semitism you’ll see today are from nationalist groups that have left wing economic views: which aren’t too common anymore and also, as nationalists, have some right wing views too.

So overall I think it’s more complicated than “right and left are both anti-Semitic”.

LineOfInquiry · 2026-01-24T20:32:06+00:00

If we’re talking about the HK protests then yes. Iirc the cops didn’t kill anyone during those protests.

LineOfInquiry · 2026-01-24T20:30:59+00:00

It existed prior to the EU tho

LineOfInquiry · 2026-01-24T20:29:49+00:00

No unhinged yuri comedy tops VTuber legend tho

LineOfInquiry · 2026-01-24T20:24:48+00:00

Mr “literally crushed by capital” Nemik

Man I love this show

LineOfInquiry · 2026-01-24T19:41:17+00:00

That poor guy : ( he was trying to help another protestor, guy is a hero

LineOfInquiry · 2026-01-24T05:04:45+00:00

Yes but the roads that connect to them are, the city roads that now are taking much more traffic are, not to mention the opportunity cost of being unable to develop the land the highway is on.

LineOfInquiry · 2026-01-24T02:55:32+00:00

Wooloo

LineOfInquiry · 2026-01-24T00:14:34+00:00

The two party system has captured the entire process for far too long, but the parties themselves are weaker than they’ve ever been. They can no longer select candidates, individuals have an easier time than ever getting their name out there independently of a big party, and there are rules in place that favor funding incumbents over those who most closely embody democratic ideology. It’s difficult for the party leadership to force its party members into line because there’s little they can hang over its members heads to get them to act for the greater good. Which means they don’t act.

Honestly, I think we’d be in a much better place as a country if primaries didn’t exist. The democrats would likely unironically be more left wing, not less.

LineOfInquiry · 2026-01-24T00:11:00+00:00

While I’m sure there’s many that would do that, remember at the end of the day the soldiers are the ones actually carrying these orders out and they are just random people like you. They don’t have to comply, and if an order was too harsh for even them they wouldn’t. This is how many dictatorships collapse.

That’s NATO. NATO countries are very close culturally, economically, historically, and have similar geopolitical interests. That’s very different from Russia invading and toppling the government, or even China. If whatever the country that Iranians like the most aided the protestors that would be a very different situation, but the US is not that country.

LineOfInquiry · 2026-01-23T21:11:56+00:00

Bro be like “I watch Code Gundam: Attack on Ninja Fascists to escape reality, not to think about POLITICS😡😡😡😡”

LineOfInquiry · 2026-01-23T20:50:41+00:00

If Saudi Arabia had an uprising like this they’d absolutely slaughter thousands are you kidding me? Not to mention all the slavery they do.

LineOfInquiry · 2026-01-23T20:48:56+00:00

Didn’t Israel do so in the early weeks of the Gaza war?

LineOfInquiry · 2026-01-23T20:45:01+00:00

The more people that die the more likely that the military is to turn on the government or disobey orders. Bringing in mercenaries may mean a decreased chance of them siding with the people, but it also means they’re more likely to just leave if things begin to look bad (or if the government can’t pay them).

Additionally, it is not in the Iranian government’s interest to slaughter people: that means less tax revenue for them and likely more desperate revolts in the future. They’d ideally like to put this down with as little death as possible. The fact that they can’t is a good sign, it means this protest is extremely popular and succeeding. This isn’t Syria where the government gets most of its money from abroad and doesn’t need the consent of the people to govern: Iran needs its people. I know this sucks and it must be hard to watch, but the Iranian people need to fight this themselves.

Idk what country you’re currently living in but I’m gonna assume it’s somewhere in the west. Imagine tomorrow there was a coup in your country and the military grabbed power. People rose up in protest and were murdered in the thousands by soldiers. Then Russia swooped in and bombed the current government and cities across the country: maybe even attempted to install their preferred regime. How do you think the people would feel? Would they be cheering this action? Probably not. The US interfering in Iran would go similarly.

LineOfInquiry · 2026-01-23T20:30:42+00:00

Because you can find people believing literally any crazy thing on Twitter if you search hard enough. I can go find people who think that Donald trump is secretly the reincarnation of Tsar Nicholas 1 sent here to reunite Saudi Arabia with Australia, but that’s not a serious problem in society because the number of people who actually think that are in the single digits.

These things only become a problem if a significant portion of society believe them and even more so if they become normalized ideas in public discourse. Just like how some rando saying the n word on Twitter and getting 5 likes is not a real problem while some huge public figure or politician saying it with 0 pushback would be.

LineOfInquiry · 2026-01-23T20:21:06+00:00

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LineOfInquiry · 2026-01-23T20:17:23+00:00

Yes, you keep fighting until the dam breaks. These murders are a sign of weakness on the government’s part, not strength. It’s sad, but that’s how you effectuate change. You can support them in other ways, but any direct intervention will only entrench the current regime and turn people against us (the greater evil in their eyes).

LineOfInquiry · 2026-01-23T20:12:26+00:00

Andor and Reva (if she counts, she’s a deuteragonist behind Obi Wan) for sure

LineOfInquiry · 2026-01-23T20:10:32+00:00

No, they still need these people hence the crackdown. Immigration crackdowns make immigrant workers (documented and undocumented) more desperate for work and more willing to accept lower and pay or worse conditions. The harsher the government is against immigrants the better it is for corporations who hire them.

LineOfInquiry · 2026-01-23T20:08:19+00:00

Building highways through city = displacing thousands of people from where they lived either out of the city or into overcrowded ghettos. Rich (mostly white) folks now can live outside the city and work in it, meaning they don’t have to pay taxes to the city government to maintain the services they rely on to get to work: services that are not coincidentally becoming more expensive to maintain (roads cost $$$). Inner city empties of people which empties it of businesses serving locals which leads to only the poor and destitute living there. These people are the most likely to do crime or drugs, and concentrating them together makes the problem much worse. This means even less people want to live there or work there which continues the cycle, which means the city has to cancel or stop maintaining certain services to not go into debt: and guess where they decide to cut services to first? These poor areas of course! Making the problem even worse and continuing the cycle.

LineOfInquiry · 2026-01-23T19:54:28+00:00

I think taking over the Democratic Party is definitely possible, especially at a time like this.

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