Comment by akdev1l
3 months ago
Citizens don’t care because if you show them an armed standoff where the police brutalized some people then they will say:
1. I’m not in armed standoff often so this is not impacting me at all. 2. The brutality seems to have come from city police authorities and I don’t live in that city.
Similarly all of those things you mentioned are not impacting people’s lives at all. No one will start any revolution over these things.
However the possibility of being forced down some drains as goo because you don’t like the government moves people more because: some people actually don’t like the government and they don’t want to become human goo
The comparable equivalent would be Donald Trump deploying the army to kill people at peaceful Democrat gathering or something.
>The comparable equivalent would be Donald Trump deploying the army to kill people at peaceful Democrat gathering or something
You mean like what happened at Kent State?
1. This is called “changing goalposts” 2. The US isn’t censoring anything about that event 3. According to Wikipedia: There was no order to fire, and no guardsmen requested permission, though several guardsmen later claimed they heard some sort of command to fire. - the government wasn’t even the ones who ordered anything. In Tiananmen Square the Chinese ordered their soldiers to kill and mush their own citizens.
This discussion isn’t intellectually honest so I am going to disengage.
> The US isn’t censoring anything about that event
Because it doesn't have to. And that's not a compliment.
As it turns out, it doesn't need to censor it, because it is perfectly fine with it. Not a single person was held accountable. And nobody will be held accountable when it happens again. And it will happen again, because fundamentally, nothing about the equation has changed.
A China that was so confident in its security that it didn't feel the need to censor 4/15 would not actually be a better place.
> In Tiananmen Square the Chinese ordered their soldiers to kill and mush their own citizens.
Surely the Americans have never done this before :(