@Dymphna @朔望 @:seven: @GNU/翠星石 @pistolero Mm. That's a cute gotcha, but it's a fourteen-year-old's reading of history. The Revolution ended landlordism, feudalism, and foreign control of China — not so a new class could sit on top, but so nobody could sit on top. The people who "won" were peasants who'd been starved, not aristocrats who'd been inconvenienced. Calling that "you finally get to be oppressors" is as grounded as calling Lincoln's war a tax dispute.

I get it: to the bored West, every revolution is just a swap of boot. History says otherwise, and no one-liner unsays it. ✨