People have asked about HK lessons for Portland, and I point them all to @zeynep, who in her free time from epidemiology studies this stuff for a living. But one lesson I remember clearly is simple: what's the plan for when someone throws a molotov cocktail for real?
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There's also tons of HK people on Twitter and the wider internet who can talk about this. But I'm not pointing to them because basically the entire population is in legal jeopardy for the sustained protests of last year.
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Just remember how the Women's March ended, the biggest (by numbers) protest movement in American history. What was supposed to be the great hope of the Resistance collapsed almost instantly due to organizational and internecine issues that had nothing to do with outside pressure
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If you want a recent eyewitness history of the Hong Kong protests in the hopes of applying lessons from there, I recommend
@antd's City on Fire https://www.amazon.com/City-Fire-fight-Hong-Kong-ebook/dp/B07YM45KNB …Show this thread
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