• @rockSlayer
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    7 months ago

    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