I just read someone claiming mao was an imperialist and I think it’s doing real psychic damage

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        Free-er than you!

        Here are Tibetan serfs burning the leases that legally bound them to their lords’ estates

        Here is the PLA training a women’s militia, so they can go shoot to death the landlords and theocrats who have enslaved them for a thousand years (look at that smile!)

        Here is the CIA’s opinion on the matter (note, China was still controlled by the nationalists so that’s what ‘pro-China’ means, the Mongolian People’s Republic were the closest communists)

        I’ll just

        leave these here

        Tibet has High Speed Rail. Do you?

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        You do realize it was the Tibetan peasant majority who raised up against the theocracy alongside the Chinese Red Army, an army that had tens of thousands of Tibetan volunteers

        Like you do know that basic historical fact right? And aren’t just going off some late-night CNN documentary ass conception of history?

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          Actually all of my knowledge of Tibet comes from the excellent heartwarming documentary Seven Years In Tibet starring Brad Pitt as good-guy Nazi SS Officer Heinrich Harrer, who was a true friend to all the oppressed peoples of the world!

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        We are not used to users not knowing some things, a product of isolation.

        Now, what civil liberties they don’t have in Tibet?

        Aside from illegal same sex marriage which is a valid criticism