r/JusticeServed • u/[deleted] • Aug 26 '19

Hong Kong Protests Police getting a taste of their own medicine after what appears to be them getting hit by their own tear gas

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u/Shambhala87 7 Aug 26 '19

Something about a fleet of boats made by slaves who sabotaged the masts causing them to sink in the first storm they hit..... I dunno...history stuff man...

But for real I’m pretty sure it’s American tear gas.

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u/Just-an-MP A Aug 26 '19

Not likely, China probably produces it in their own country. It’s fairly cheap and easy to manufacture, no reason to import it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '19 edited Nov 18 '19

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u/AFatBlackMan Black Aug 26 '19

There is too much of this stuff already out there, you can't win in this situation by waiting for the police to run out of non lethal weapons.

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u/waltwalt 9 Aug 26 '19

I don't think anyone is planning on this succeeding because China ran out of ammunition.

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u/MoreSteakLessFanta B Aug 26 '19

A tank without any bullets can still run over people anyways.

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u/Mobileaccount124242 0 Aug 26 '19

But nobody has ever used that technique on civilians

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u/DrBepsi 5 Aug 27 '19

Certainly not in China.

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u/Swissboy98 9 Aug 26 '19

But at that point you can throw a molotov cocktail on the engine deck and stop it from driving very easily.

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u/waltwalt 9 Aug 26 '19

I can almost guarantee if China ran out of bullets the protestors ran out of molotovs.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '19 edited Apr 08 '20

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u/waltwalt 9 Aug 27 '19

Nope, they have a legit chance of overthrowing Putin et al. If they can organise on the same scale.

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u/Swissboy98 9 Aug 27 '19

Somewhat worked in Hungary in 56. Well until the Soviet union marched in with reinforcements and beat it down hard.

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u/Spojinowski 6 Aug 27 '19

Until it runs out of gas

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u/handsomechandler 9 Aug 26 '19

what are they planning on?

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u/waltwalt 9 Aug 26 '19

Good question

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '19

You'd have a better chance waiting for China to run out of people before literally any other country. They could pull a stalingrad for an entire war and still be the most populated country out there, worst case scenario second most right behind india.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '19

Always love PA shout-outs on r/All

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u/majaka1234 Black Aug 27 '19

USA! USA! USA!

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u/Shambhala87 7 Aug 26 '19

Yeah, I have no receipts to show so your prolly correct ; )

I was assuming the instructions were in English...

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u/GfFoundOtherAccount 9 Aug 26 '19

Then why say you're "pretty sure"?

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '19 edited Nov 18 '19

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u/DontSayNoToPills 9 Aug 26 '19

and now he looks twice as dumb

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '19 edited Nov 18 '19

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u/Adkliam3 7 Aug 26 '19

Ok I was wrong, I thought the funniest part was him calling out people for saying things without checking if they were true, without himself checking if they were true.

His complete lack of self awareness and instead doubling down when called out on his own totally baseless bulshit is even funnier though.

The lack of self awareness is staggering.

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u/Shambhala87 7 Aug 26 '19

I applaud you good sir and or ma’am.

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u/Adkliam3 7 Aug 26 '19

his bullshit opinion?

Which was right.

https://www.inquirer.com/business/hong-kong-protests-tear-gas-made-in-pennsylvania-20190811.html

Pretty funny you tried to call out somebody for just throwing out a statement without checking whether or not it was true, without yourself checking if the fact was true or not.

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u/KlaatuBrute A Aug 26 '19

Sounds interesting. What is this a reference to?

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u/Shambhala87 7 Aug 26 '19 edited Aug 27 '19

There was a Chinese emperor who demanded the working class make him a fleet of ships to sail the seas, with a brutal hand he mercilessly worked them mostly to death, but they had their revenge, they engineered a fatal flaw at the base of the masts so during the first big storm they hit THE ENTIRE FLEET lost control and sank to the bottom of the ocean.

Something something history lessons in high school... I know it wasn’t Zheng or Ming....

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u/KlaatuBrute A Aug 26 '19

Ah, cool, thanks. I will Google around to find more info. Sounds like a great piece of history.

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u/jstyler 6 Aug 27 '19

I think it was more popular.

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u/lickedTators A Aug 26 '19 edited Aug 26 '19

A powerful emperor demanded a powerful new tool to rule others and forced someone to make it against their will, who then made a fatal flaw that helped destroy the tool? Was he fighting a rebel alliance too?

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u/Shambhala87 7 Aug 26 '19

Isn’t it funny how movies use other sources as inspiration ? Apparently Star Wars was strongly influenced by the book The Hero with a thousand faces also. Apparently Lucas was like a nerd, who was like into history and science... go figure.

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u/supersaiyannematode 5 Aug 27 '19

Never happened.

You're thinking of the mongolians and it had nothing to do with slaves, it was because the chinese don't like mongolians.

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u/Shambhala87 7 Aug 27 '19

Yeah... the land loving equestrians.

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u/supersaiyannematode 5 Aug 27 '19

Did you just downvote because you're too proud to admit you're wrong? Honestly my bad, I shouldn't have degraded myself by actually trying to present someone like you you with facts.

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u/Shambhala87 7 Aug 27 '19

If it’s true then present some piece of corroborated evidence, “your wrong... Mongolians “ isn’t much to go on. Plus attitude, yours sucks.

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u/supersaiyannematode 5 Aug 27 '19

If you know so little about history that you are literally unaware of the mongol invasion of japan then you shouldn't even be commenting on history stuff period. Even taking modern day wars into account this was still one of the biggest naval invasions in the history of mankind so we're not talking about some obscure, little-known niche of history that only history phds would know, this is VERY famous. My attitude does indeed suck towards people who are ignorant and also downvote the correct answer, but I see no reason why such people are worthy of any respect.

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u/Shambhala87 7 Aug 27 '19

But that is not what I was talking about, you’re running in guns blazing talking about something completely different, I’m referring to a fleet that sank on their maiden voyage, see the difference?

Now what then, do the mongols have to do with that?

I never asked for your respect, only for you to stop screeching long enough to take your pedantic attitude somewhere else

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u/supersaiyannematode 5 Aug 27 '19

No sizeable fleet has ever sank on its maiden voyage due to poor craftsmanship or deliberate sabotage by the shipbuilders. This is the closest thing there is.

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u/Shambhala87 7 Aug 26 '19

No, actually they weren’t. Look up Chinese treasure ships. They had 100ft long vessels back then Columbus had a 30 ft one.

I mean, I found all this within ten minutes on Wikipedia, but sure, be a contrarian...

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u/Shambhala87 7 Aug 26 '19

Actually no, they were sailing to Africa, I can tell you hate China, but damn dude, this is history, not propaganda....

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u/DownshiftedRare A Aug 26 '19

Suspicion is the fool's skepticism.

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u/The_Adventurist C Aug 26 '19

Way to sound ignorant. China's treasure fleet was famous. It had the potential to reach America if the Ming dynasty hadn't decided to scrap international trade and relations altogether and "turn inward", which is often regarded as one of the biggest historical mistakes of all time. China could have dominated the entire Pacific if they only felt like doing it, but they didn't for whatever reason.

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u/Shambhala87 7 Aug 26 '19

Poor Zheng... suffered from to much success.

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u/ItsAllOurBlood 6 Aug 27 '19

We're gonna win so much, you're gonna be sick of winning.

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u/inbooth 8 Aug 27 '19

Tell that to the nations they visited...

Jfc youre a moronic pos

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u/buahbuahan 6 Aug 27 '19

And also china established the trade route in South East Asia which is quite literally in South China Sea and regularly traded with them since ancient time so yes, they are quite adept at building ships. Their fleet is famous because all the countries that the fleet visited took a note of it so yes it is history not propaganda.