CloutAtlas [he/him] to the_dunk_tank • 10 months agoWhen you definitely know what authoritarian means.imagemessage-square24 fedilinkarrow-up1121file-text
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minus-squareDolores [love/loves]hexbear47·10 months agoEXTREMELY NORMAL for a "democratic leader" to have a monument bigger than the actual emperors' link
minus-squareBovineUniversityhexbear29·10 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. link
minus-squarePolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.mlhexbear22·edit-210 months agoHe even resigned without much fuss to make compromise, but they guy he resigned for literally crowned himself. Also Sun mausoleum was build in 1929, so by the very same party who build that one in Taiwan too. linkfedilink
minus-squareoktherebuddyhexbear6·10 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. link
minus-squareRyanGosling [none/use name]hexbear27·10 months agoTo be fair they built a giant golden mao statue lol link
minus-squareDolores [love/loves]hexbear31·10 months ago GONE in any case no mao statue, even that one is as large as that fucking eyesore lol link
minus-squareBoxedFenders [any, comrade/them]hexbear33·10 months agoHa, the irony that entrepreneurs built a statue of Mao only to be denied by the CCP. link
EXTREMELY NORMAL for a "democratic leader" to have a monument bigger than the actual emperors'
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.
He even resigned without much fuss to make compromise, but they guy he resigned for literally crowned himself.
Also Sun mausoleum was build in 1929, so by the very same party who build that one in Taiwan too.
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.
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.