Hong Kong police are spraying protesters with blue-dye water cannons to mark them for arrest later

Why does the Chinese government have such a problem with people? I seriously don't understand it. Why not just let people do their thing? Let them go to work, eat dinner and vote. If you get voted out of office, you should have done a better job, sure but it's not a death sentence - get a new job as a cashier or something.

That's seriously how this whole thing sounds when I hear about oppressive governments: it's not some monolithic organization. It's a bunch of regular dudes who who think they're better than everyone else and are willing to kill people to keep their jobs. I like my job well enough but even if it was my favorite thing in the world, I'm not going to kill and censor thousands to millions of people to keep it. Just fucking...go do something else for awhile.

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