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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

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[–] verdantbanana@lemmy.world 89 points 1 month ago (5 children)

winners get to write the history books so guess we will have to see or don't see

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 105 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's being recorded and the world is watching. It will be in some history books but who will have access to those books is a bigger question.

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

doomer here.

Mankind will extinguish itself and there won't be any history or its books.

[–] diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Didn't know you could Doom on lemmy

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 month ago

You can run Doom on just about anything.

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 month ago

Wouldn't that be nice? Too good to be true, though.

[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 31 points 1 month ago

The rest of the non-fascist world is watching. The US isn't the entire world believe it or not

[–] SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This idea that "history is written by the winners" is bullshit and literally only favors fascists. It's the main reason for a lot of the "clean wehrmacht" myths and is the entire thing that the "lost cause of the confederacy" thing revolves around.

[–] Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

In one of the John Green history videos, he covers Viking raids on Great Britain. Often, the Vikings left after raiding an area, so the history was written by the surviving "losers". John's comment was that in cases like that where history is written by the losers, they are bitter about it.

I think the bitter comment lines up with your examples like the "lost cause" narrative, too.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Bystanders write history as well.

[–] RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 month ago

Neo-Confederates proved that was not the case a long time ago