Comment on Absolutely nothing happened June 1989
Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 2 months agoThat is not the same as as the subject at hand, I have already addressed this, multiple times, down further. A more apt comparison would have been Kent State. Which was something that was immediately put on the news.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If you do anything that threatens the powerful in the USA you will be cracked down on just as hard. Your example, Edward Snowden, or even the union wars in Appalachia. All are just as forgotten in US public mind as Tianman Square.
Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I still see Snowden in the news, and see the information of his documents discussed in mainstream media. Even if it was forgotten, people arern’t being swept away by the feds for talking about online, and on tv.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Because it can no longer affect real change.
Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So it can in China?