What do the Hong Kong "protestors" want? That's a serious question. I don't think they know what they want--they are being used to create chaos, the only thing the empire has ever been good at.
The "protestors" are NOT themselves a transparent democratic movement open to all (as in, "be that which you want to see.") The Hong Kong "protestors" may beat or burn people who disagree with them on the spot. That's not what Occupy did.
The "protestors" don't seem to intend to negotiate with anyone, or really accept anything, except total capitulation of the government and what does that mean, who would be the "new leaders" and what is their "program" once they have taken power? Clearly they are neither socialists nor communists of any stripe. It would then seem they represent extreme capitalism, and alliance with USA, but how is that supposed to make anything better in Hong Kong? It hasn't done that anywhere else.
I understand the mass demonstrations ended some time ago. It's been a smaller and smaller bunch of violent types, beating up on people who complain about the protests. Most recently a counterprotestor who was complaining to the violent types was set on fire, and barely survived, and there have been similar counterprotestors who have barely survived simple beatings by the "protestors." Most Hong Kongers are getting impatient with government not cracking down more, economy and tourism have been virtually shut down. While now small in number, the "protestors" have been shutting down transit systems by lying on tracks, etc. Hong Kong is heavily dependent on those systems. It's taken well over a month of extreme "protestor" violence (they've refined flame throwing to an art) to reach one government-caused fatality despite enormous, continuous, and violent provocations nearly shutting down the entire country. This is unduplicated and unimaginable anywhere else.
In my opinion, people who collaborate with the empire to violate international law like the Kurds, deserve no respect for that. And people who collaborate with the empire to create endless chaos and destroy their own homeland, like the Hong Kong "protestors" deserve much worse.
In my evil dreams, I'd let the "protestors" have what they "want" just to show others how that would go. But that wouldn't be very nice to the people who are not "protestors." That's the tough position of real governments as opposed to Trotskyist-Imperialist flame throwers.
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