• Insekticus@aussie.zone
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    14 hours ago

    The difference is the Hong Kong citizens weren’t installed in all levels of local, state, and federal position within the government.

    The amount of buildings getting destroyed and groups popping up all over America from California to New York will be way too big of a theatre for a federal government as deeply incompetent and corrupt as this one is, from stopping them in any meaningful way.

    Hong Kong resisted an outside military with the forces and wealth of an invading army.

    Yours is a false dichotomy.

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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      9 hours ago

      I think you meant false equivalence.

      A false dichotomy presents two options as if they are the only choices available when in reality there are other options.

      A false equivalence draws a comparison between two things that are actually disparate.

      I’m neither agreeing nor disagreeing with you or the person you replied to. Just letting you know the correct term for what you described.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      9 hours ago

      THAT DINT seem like the case for HK, they were most definitely taken over pretty quick, and without much resistance. thier govt was mostly appointed by ccp approved in the first place.