CloutAtlas [none/use name]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 10 months agoWhen you definitely know what authoritarian means.hexbear.netimagemessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1103arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1103arrow-down1imageWhen you definitely know what authoritarian means.hexbear.netCloutAtlas [none/use name]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square24fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareDolores [love/loves]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41·10 months agoEXTREMELY NORMAL for a “democratic leader” to have a monument bigger than the actual emperors’
minus-squareRyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·10 months agoTo be fair they built a giant golden mao statue lol
minus-squareDolores [love/loves]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·10 months ago GONE in any case no mao statue, even that one is as large as that fucking eyesore lol
minus-squareBoxedFenders [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·10 months agoHa, the irony that entrepreneurs built a statue of Mao only to be denied by the CCP.
minus-squareBovineUniversity@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·10 months agoSun Yat Sen still has a big one on the mainland, literally built on the same site as a bunch of old emperors. China’s just kinda like that I guess.
minus-squareDolores [love/loves]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·10 months ago he was elected, tho
minus-squareoktherebuddy@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·10 months agoSYS is worthy of being venerated though, the Xinhai revolution gets kinda dwarfed by the tumultuous events of the latter half the 20th century but all republican revolutions are really fucking cool and worthy of study.
EXTREMELY NORMAL for a “democratic leader” to have a monument bigger than the actual emperors’
To be fair they built a giant golden mao statue lol
in any case no mao statue, even that one is as large as that fucking eyesore lol
Ha, the irony that entrepreneurs built a statue of Mao only to be denied by the CCP.
Sun Yat Sen still has a big one on the mainland, literally built on the same site as a bunch of old emperors. China’s just kinda like that I guess.
SYS is worthy of being venerated though, the Xinhai revolution gets kinda dwarfed by the tumultuous events of the latter half the 20th century but all republican revolutions are really fucking cool and worthy of study.