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Post videos you genuinely enjoy and want to share, duh. Celebrate the diversity of interests shared by chapochatters by posting a deep dive into Venetian kelp farming, I dunno. Also media criticism, bite-sized versions of left-wing theory, all the stuff you expected. But I am curious about that kelp farming thing now that you mentioned it.
Low effort / spam videos might be removed, especially weeb content.
There is a cytube that you can paste videos into and watch with whoever happens to be around. It's open submission unless there's something important to commandeer it with at the time.
A weekly watch party happens every Saturday (Sunday down under), with video nominations Saturday-Monday, voting Monday-Thursday. See the pin for whatever stage it's currently in.
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You have to look at the broader world context. This wasn't just a simple protest. This was a Western backed movement (even wikipedia acknowledges the CIA was actively aiding the movement) to overthrow the Chinese government happening at the exact same time similar movements were ending socialism throughout the entire Eastern bloc. This entire purpose of a socialist state (we can debate about whether the PRC was one at this point, or w/e, but they at least ostensibly were) is to defend socialism against counter-revolutionaries. Is that not what happened here? If anything I think the response was rather lax.
If the leadership of the DDR, USSR, Poland, etc. had taken decisive action like this, then they wouldn't have collapsed. Of course, that would required them to not all be miserable revisionists; which they sadly all were.