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       2025-06-08T18:00:52Z
       
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       Everyone knows about Tiananmen Square but the Gwangju Uprising in S. Korea in 1980 is also a very interesting (tragic) event...the playbook for authoritarians is so rote...arrest and suppress the opposition (Homan threatened to arrest Newsom & Bass), provoke resistance and then turn state violence on the protesters. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwangju_Uprising#USpol