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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

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