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Getty photographer throwing his camera to another photographer while being tackled in Minneapolis (USA) to prevent confiscation. (infosec.pub)
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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/40655145

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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.

-- John Abernathy

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[–] 90 points 6 months ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 105 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    doomer here.

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

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    This guy dooms

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months 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.

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