Yes I know it's crazy right, even the Chinese government doesn't deny they shot people after at least a dozen police/soliders were killed and immolated and others taken hostage... In a similar situation, I am absolutely sure that the west would not use lethal force...

I don't think you are proving the point you think you're proving.

[–] lobelia581@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

you're right, i think we're in agreement. the side with guns and tanks retaliated against the side with bricks and molotov cocktails by opening fire

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

No, I don't think we are. So tell me, how would the west react in a similar situation?

Not fifteen years before in the US the national guards shot at a group of 300 protestors who hadn't been occupying the place for months, didn't have Molotov cocktails, didn't take hostages, didn't immolate anyone. They killed four, and wounded nine.

[–] shiftymccool@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, yeah... This government is shitty, that government is shitty, let's have a big, shitty government dick swinging contest!

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

What do you think the state should do when a group, funded with millions of foreign dollars, starts burning and kidnapping police/soldiers?

If this happened here y'all would be the first to enlist, I guarantee it.