• rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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      8 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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        8 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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          8 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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            8 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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              8 months ago

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