Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident?

• Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The guy who got killed doing nonviolent shit?

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  • the_mighty_kracken@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Are you suggesting he should have used the gun that he had on him?

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    • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes

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    • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes, there’s a chance he’d still be alive today if he did so.

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      • the_mighty_kracken@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        There’s a chance he would have died in a hail of gunfire, and probably gotten a lot of innocent bystanders killed as well, and a certainty that if he had survived, he would have gone to jail for the rest of his life. I don’t know what the solution is to the problems my country is facing right now, but I know for a fact that what you’re suggesting is not the solution.

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    • Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m suggesting that if it were me, and I was gonna go down either way, I’d rather die knowing that I helped rid the world of at least one of those rat bastards.

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      • tate@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Pretti’s death may have turned the tide. If he had fired his weapon or even unholstered it, that would not be true.

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      • the_mighty_kracken@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I see we’ve got a badass on our hands.

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• UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  LOL

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