• rockSlayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    510·
    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.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      105·
      10 months ago

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

      • rockSlayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        310·
        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?

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          94·
          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.

          • rockSlayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
            27·
            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.