• rockSlayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    614·
    2 年前

    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
      145·
      2 年前

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

      • rockSlayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        412·
        2 年前

        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
          134·
          2 年前

          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
            28·
            2 年前

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

      • rockSlayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 年前

        Lebensraum was directly taken from the manifest destiny, and is clearly the idea behind the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank