• @rockSlayer
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      This is more of a snapshot from what the US government would have done while settling land during manifest destiny if they had tanks.

      • @TrickDacy
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        97 months ago

        Yeah it’s definitely more a hypothetical that can be imagined than it is a concrete reality that happened. Makes sense.

        • @rockSlayer
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          -87 months ago

          The settler-colonial hypothetical is more comparable to this atrocity than the Tiananmen Square massacre. Did you associate this with Tiananmen Square simply because of tanks?

          • @TrickDacy
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            97 months ago

            Are you implying running over people with tanks is so common that we shouldn’t have associated the two?

            What a weird thing to imply.

            • @rockSlayer
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              -67 months ago

              Between all the different conflicts since tanks were invented during WW1, it’s a more common occurrence than either of us know.

              • @TrickDacy
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                47 months ago

                than either of us know.

                A key part of this phrase

        • @rockSlayer
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          17 months ago

          Lebensraum was directly taken from the manifest destiny, and is clearly the idea behind the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank

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      The one where… Tank man blocked a convoy of tanks by standing there?

      The one where he was pulled away by his friends afterwards?

      It’s sort of challenging to hide a crushed body, and yet no journalists who were there the night of or the morning after reported anything. No photographic evidence is available.

      • @Olhonestjim
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        157 months ago

        You know they pulled those soldiers out and replaced them with soldiers from other regions who would, and did, right? Tiananmen Square is famous because of the massacre they committed after Tank Man.