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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by hungryphrog to c/196

Guys, at this rate I don't think the revolution's going to happen anytime soon.

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[-] Forester@pawb.social 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's a political slang word. It refers to those who support leftist authoritarian regimes such as communist, China. Regimes where the state can do no wrong and the people do all the wrong so the state must step in to crush the people and "protect them" from dangerous, Western and capitalist ideas. Pretty sure the name derives from the 1989 tiananmen square incident.

[-] InquisitiveApathy@lemm.ee 24 points 2 weeks ago

The term has nothing to do with Tiananmen square and it's usage actually predates the massacre by almost 40 years.

[-] Forester@pawb.social 15 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah you're right. I was for some reason conflating the USSR invading Hungary

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