How is “martial tradition” related to protest effectiveness? You know there’s mo...

centimeter · on March 11, 2021

> You know there’s more to building long lived protest movements than street fighting, right

There's also more to being successful than being "long lived".

If you're going up against the Chinese government, you need some degree of violence in excess of that levied by the HK protestors.

> The doc itself lists many forms of effective action

The HK protest actions were not at all effective.

threatofrain · on March 11, 2021

It may have been that there was no winning position for HK.

smitty1e · on March 12, 2021

Departure.

Part of winning strategically is understanding that only 'sufficient' tactical engagements must be won.

Getting annihilated does not advance the cause.