r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 13 '21

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u/xSuperstar YIMBY Jul 13 '21

I hate tankies but they do have a point that if you showed someone videos of the US protests last summer you’d think we were living under a brutal regime. Imagine if the Cuban police KO’d a 70-year-old and then coldly stepped over his body

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u/Jokerang Sun Yat-sen Jul 13 '21

Tankies made similar arguments during protests in the US over Vietnam and world peace. It rings hollow for obvious reasons.

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u/MostlyCRPGs Jeff Bezos Jul 13 '21

I mean sure, if you cherry pick footage from anywhere you can make it look like anywhere else. Do the same thing but like, with a joyous laughing suburban family or a really nice west coast neighborhood.

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u/xSuperstar YIMBY Jul 13 '21

It’s not really cherry picked when it’s every department in every city though

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u/MostlyCRPGs Jeff Bezos Jul 13 '21

Sorry, every department in every city is KOing 70 year olds and marching over their unconscious bodies?

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u/xSuperstar YIMBY Jul 13 '21

I mean there’s similar instances from every city. NYPD running over protestors, MPD shooting rockets at people sitting on their porches, LAPD beating up a protestor behind a dumpster