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[+] -21 points 3 years ago (23 children)

Is ‘Someone who’s prepared to run over ‘dissidents’ in a tank’ an unacceptable response?

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  • [–] 31 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Interesting. Sounds like a meaningless definition. By this I'd say your average Fox News watching chud would fit the definition of tankie. You'd need only give them a tank, point them to some BLM protestors in a road, let them know they won't be arrested and have immunity and they'd charge the fuck on down with that tank while screaming how all lives matter.

    Or for that matter as others have pointed out, a lot of cops.

    I've seen pictures of protests in Latin America, I forget which country, it had a right-wing government at the time, the protestors were leftist and the government rammed them with armored combat vehicles, not quite tanks but those must be tankies too.

    Sounds like a rather useless term to be honest. Not only that it would seem to paper over the fact lots more people have been run over to death by normal vehicles, jeeps, armored vehicles that aren't tanks, etc than could possibly have been run over by tanks. So those people's lives don't matter, the use of vehicles to slaughter then don't matter? Only if it fits a narrow criteria?

    Again useless definition.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago*

    By this I’d say your average Fox News watching chud would fit the definition of tankie. You’d need only give them a tank, point them to some BLM protestors in a road, let them know they won’t be arrested and have immunity and they’d charge the fuck on down with that tank while screaming how all lives matter.

    Considering Florida passed such a law giving people immunity for running over protestors on roads, and modern American trucks and SUVs are practically the size of tanks, this isn't even an exaggeration of reality.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago (16 children)

    daily reminder that the full tank man video exists. soldier got out of the tank and talked to him, and he left unharmed.

    Tangential maybe, but through decades of propaganda and omission, libs today think they ran the guy over for some fucking reason.

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  • [+] -20 points 3 years ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (15 children)
  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Then the tanks continued to Tianamen square where they proceeded to crush students to death by driving over them.

    The picture which shows mainly abandoned bicycles and a handful of people who dove for cover after they gave an order to clear the square?

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago*

    The tanks were leaving during the Tank Man nonsense. It happened the day after the supposed massacre. All eyewitnesses say that there was no massacre on the square, and certainly no crushing people with tanks.

    So yeah, post your photos, let me guess lots of fallen bicycles?

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    They let tank man go at the time and no one knows what happened to him.

    So on what basis do you assume something bad happened to him rather than he just went home and carried on with his life?

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  • [+] -14 points 3 years ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago*

    Point is, they weren't. Which is also supported by eyewitnesses like foreign reporters. You seem to mistake the british story for what actually happened. Unfortunately all evidence is not in support of that story. Fortunately anglos do not care about evidence.

    Do you want some reading material? Just ask, it is no big deal.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago

    There are photos of the aftermath but you want to ignore that don’t you

    Post them, please. I've not seen such photos. I am asking with no snark, in good faith. You say such photos exist. Please post them.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    Very interesting to call back to an event that happened over 70 years ago where what you describe might possibly in some way if the stars aligned have happened, meanwhile police in France and the US are filmed actually running over peaceful protestors with their cars all the fucking time.

    The past is the past it can't hurt you bro, focus on the present.

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