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Its funny how dunking on both PRC and the current US administration is being a "brainwashed American" 🤣
"I bet you think Tiananmen Square massacre was real too."
It's this really where we're at? Pretending it didn't even happen? Accusing those who acknowledge the event of being brainwashed? Jesus Christ.
You think that's air you're breathing levels of reality-bending.
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I like how they don't seem to realize how crazy they are
Tankies are basically just magats who swallowed eastern propaganda and somehow think it makes them morally superior to everyone else.
They're literally conservatives. What defines that label is ingroup loyalty as a theory-of-everything. Us good, you bad, and then you make up clever-sounding reasons why. If they don't match yesterday's reasons, who cares?
They think that's all you're doing. They think that's all there is.
Ah yes, we’ll stop the government from repressing people by… checks notes
Having the government repress people. Makes perfect sense.
Ahh shiet, tankie invaded lemmy zip too.
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they tend to do that. but they won't ever invade spaces that are critical of them
God, speaking of that phenomenon, my 'favorite' example is of Soviet citizens ~~unrolling a banner in~~ supporting the Soviet right to assembly in 1977(?), and getting arrested for it.
How many months away are we from that here in the States, do you think? My bet is on ~12, but the timetable is already faster than I expected, so I might be a bit optimistic with that number.
got a link about that banner stuff? sounds like an interesting read
Found what I think was the incident - no banner mentioned - maybe I'm confusing incidents.
incidents.
funny how that's a plural huh
How many months away are we from that here in the States, do you think? My bet is on ~12, but the timetable is already faster than I expected, so I might be a bit optimistic with that number.
Zero. The particular specific circumstance in your example hasn't happened yet (as far as we know...), but protesters are already getting, arrested, charged for RICO and/or terrorism, deported, etc. for nothing but their peaceful political speech.
Arrests for a meta-protest could happen tomorrow; it's all down to the random chance of some jackbooted thug's mood.
Yeah but I'm asking for the super-ironic version outlined in my example.
Why do you want the US to be Authoritarian?
Want? On the contrary, I'm terrified of the route we're going down.
When I say "12 months may be optimistic", the potential optimism in that statement is that the resistance of US society and institutions may be overestimated in that timetable.
I read this and didn't check in what community or context it was posted. After reading it there still was a 50% chance it could have been posted in any .ml community.