Update, yes there are snipers:
Nixon invades Cambodia, campuses across the country erupt in protest, armed troops deployed to deal with the unrest on an Ohio campus, guns pointed at students to intimidate them into dispersing…hmmm, can’t remember what happened next…everything calmed down, I think, right?
Edit: Autocorrect betrayed me.
Remember that US intelligence services speculated in using snipers to kill “Occupy Wall Street” protesters on university campuses.
FBI coordinated with banks and universities to get information on students.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coordinated-crackdown-occupy
Conservatives
Liberalism is when you blame conservatives for what you’re both doing.
Should be treated like they are? Okay, so full outrage, comparisons to the Kent State massacre, and the administration facing reprisals and consequences for deploying snipers to intimidate, threaten, and potentially murder students.
We’re treating them like they’re snipers, Admin, you’re welcome.
Good. Update, they’re snipers.
Dude looks like he’s smiling
“This is just like American Sniper. I am the American Sniper!”
We’re so different from those godless immoral Chinese communists, something like Tianenman Square would never happen here.
Lol.
Lmao, even.
Did they shoot and kill as many as in Tiananmen or less?
Translation: Threats of violence are fine for a government to regularly make as long as no one has died.
Not authoritarian at all
But they have these at football games and other major events including political events and so on too? Why is this any different, especially when considering it’s related to the Middle East and considering what happens w/ suicide bombers?
These spotters are different from the police shootings in the Kent State incident, no?
Disinformation post ahead of election season - big shocker.
These aren’t snipers, they’re spotters. You can’t even make out what is in front of the dude in all black.
OPs only response to the closest thing we have to real fact being given was “I don’t buy it”
Seems legit. Toodles.
And now you’re deleting my posts lol. What a joke.
I would have left it if you didn’t spam shit at the bottom
Just because you can’t read Chinese doesn’t mean it was spam.
Industry standard tiananamen square copy pasta that gets Chinese propaganda pushers in trouble with Winnie The Pooh. You realize how this looks for you and this instance right?
I thought you were done. You used the yawn emoji.
Dude, I don’t care
No need to get bent out of shape, was just defending myself and enriching the comment section with more context.
So sorry
K
Look, can we start this over? I don’t like how this played out and I too was getting bent out of shape for what was likely good-intentions.
I’d understand if you were still upset and needed some time yet, totally fine
Lemmy is supposed to be better than Reddit culture, and be more civilized, and I feel like this was a fail here. I’d like to try again and maybe we can have some civil discourse about this if you’re up for it
Ok, I’ll add an edit to the post.
Where do you think the administration got the info that its just spotters from? Cops. The fact that they even called the cops is a red flag.
What the fuck does this have to do with the election?
Where are you getting that information from?
Source?
Why should I believe the university?
Because it’s better than believing an unregulated social media site that’s been proven to pedal disinformation repeatedly??
A platform owned by the richest man in the world who happens to be the son of South African apartheid?
A platform for which he removed fact checking on?
The only picture you have, you can’t even make out what’s in front of them?
Can I ask why you deleted my comment that had the Tiananmen Square Massacre copy pasta?
Because its spammy
