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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Potatofish 1 points 7 months ago

Network effects build from coordination. Not always, but when protesters organize across states and countries, it's coordinated.