• rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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    10 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.

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      10 months ago

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

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        10 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?

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          10 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.

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            10 months ago

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

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      10 months ago

      American: “How can I make this about me?”

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        10 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