Ahemmmmm…

  • Magnus@lemmy.ca
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    16 hours ago

    It’s wild when you see it on film. Usually it’s the line guy just standing there so you think the tanks were rolling up and just stopped. But they tried to get around lol

    Honestly tho. This is what the world should be doing to anyone who has more food than they can eat, more toys, works less, and makes decisions that affect your own life.

    We are the Citadel of Ricks but we long forgot that we are all, the same Rick.

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    2 days ago

    Jeff Widener, the photographer who took this photo, describes the protests. He wasn’t feeling well because a protester had smashed him in the head with a rock. His description starts at 2m30s.

    https://youtu.be/J0oV5DwIDZo

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    2 days ago

    I think it’s pretty awesome that the tank drivers didn’t flatten the guy.

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      21 hours ago

      They did, however, flatten many other students with tanks during that protest.

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        9 hours ago

        They didn’t, they beat them to death in the side streets and disappeared known leaders, get it right!

        Also the diplomatic cable that refers to armor units attacking the protestors in the Square which was denied by journalists on site specified APCs, jeez.

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      1 day ago

      Yeah, in the West they would have just rolled right over the top of him.

      (Incidentally, it’s interesting that westerners post this - truncated - clip almost constantly, yet most of them have never even seen a photo of Rachel Corrie)

    • Wanpieserino@lemm.ee
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      2 days ago

      I think it’s not awesome that DeepSeek isn’t allowed to talk about this subject whatsoever

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      1 day ago

      He gets taken away by some bystanders and no one is sure who he or the other people were. There is speculation online, but no definitive evidence.

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      1 day ago

      Reminder that Israel crushes so many people under tanks that it traumatizes their soldiers, and slavish devotion to them is bipartisan.

    • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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      1 day ago

      because its propaganda designed to make china look as bad as the us empire.

      its bad but it doesnt even compare so far.

    • baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 days ago

      there are multiple versions of the clip and the associated lore floating around and if you don’t spend enough time with what happened at the time you can easily be convinced of a variety of viewpoints

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          21 hours ago

          Occam’s razor, you’re on the Internet, bad crops are practically a meme. Personally, I distinctly remember watching the entire uncropped video multiple times throughout grade school and high school in the US

  • ssillyssadass@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Americans (in 1775): Declares war with one of the most powerful empires in history over taxes

    The French: Decapitates the upper classes due to hoarding wealth and creating class imbalance

    Haitians: Fights against their former masters in the name of freedom and the end of slavery

    The French (again): Fights back against one of the most cruel regimes in history to free their occupied homeland from Nazi rule

    Americans (now): “Oh I hope that if the message on my sign is passive aggressive enough the fascists will leave the government out of shame.”

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      2 days ago

      The Boston Tea party got started because of a tax cut from the British Empire. It was a whole different bunch declaring war than what people are lead to believe.

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        2 days ago

        Yeah, you need the wealthy with time and resources to be on your side or else you are just the peasants revolting which they all already think we are.

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            2 days ago

            Yeah. The smugglers were making bank though.
            Its kinda the rule that the government is filled with old mafia once they realize they can make a lot of money being the government.

            So I guess in this case we need the companies that are acting as mafia to want the change. Which brings us back to the wealthy.