I’m finding it harder and harder to believe that someone can be this stupid unintentionally.

“Tiny Man Square” LMAO…. The coward won’t even say it.

  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    17 hours ago

    IIRC the western view is inaccurate, in that we typically figure “authorities mercilessly crushed dissent” and the reality is more like “local authorities were swayed by the dissent and nearly turned against the government, so the government sent the goddamn army to crush those authorities too.”

    But the one-party state declares itself the only representation of the people’s will, so obviously any popular defiance is a contradiction.

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      14 hours ago

      Yup. To make an American parallel, imagine if cops suddenly joined in on left wing anti-Trump protests… And then in response, Trump rolled tanks in and crushed both protesters and cops.

      The message behind Tiananmen Square wasn’t for the protestors, because they already knew what was at stake. The message was for the authorities who may have been considering doing similar things. Stay in line and support the administration; the nail that sticks out gets hammered down.

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      15 hours ago

      “local authorities were swayed by the dissent and nearly turned against the government, so the government sent the goddamn army to crush those authorities too.”

      It’s an ancient tankie tradition, after all. Hell, it doesn’t get more traditional than where you get the name from.