• @rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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      1 year 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@lemmy.world
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        91 year ago

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

        • @rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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          -81 year 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@lemmy.world
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            91 year 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@lemmy.world
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          11 year 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

    • @filoria@lemmy.ml
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      -141 year ago

      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.