• Call Me Mañana@lemmy.mlOP
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    4 months ago

    I already knew that and I find it abnormal how a Mandela Effect is among the liberals that the man in Tinyman’s Square was crushed by the tank, only he was only taken out of the way.

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    • Judge_Jury [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Whoever wrote the Genius annotation admitted that he wasn’t harmed, but Roger’s criticizing Bad Authoritarians so he must mean China

      Nevermind that Israel, arguably Waters’ main political topic, actually did crush a student with a tank in Palestine

      ETA Oh my god, the annotation suggestion that mentions Corrie has been marked as a stretch

      • Call Me Mañana@lemmy.mlOP
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        4 months ago

        And I would call his interpretation of “Watching TV” over simplistic, it’s a song that has the fucking verses:

        Her grandpa fought old Chiang Kai-shek//

        That no-good low-down dirty rat

        Who used to order his troops

        To fire on the women and children

        Imagine that imagine that

        And in the spring of '48

        Mao Tse-tung got quite irate

        And he kicked that old dictator Chiang

        Out of the state of China

        Chiang Kai-shek came down in Formosa

        And they armed the island of Quemoy

        And the shells were flying across the China Sea

        And they turned Formosa into a shoe factory

        Called Taiwan


        Instead of being an empty critique of authoritarianism, I consider this song much more a sincere lament of the direction that China was taking in the years of Deng given past history. A criticism that can be disagreed but that has its background of truth.

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