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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.

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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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Additional reading:

The Myth of Tiananmen published by the Graduate School of Journalism at the Ivy League Columbia University

BBC Reporters, CBS News, and New York Times reporter who were actually in the city the day it happened who report mainstream news got it all wrong. BBC Source | CBS Source | NYTimes Source

Readings into what happened with the protests:

https://redsails.org/another-view-of-tiananmen

https://www.liberationnews.org/tiananmen-the-massacre-that-wasnt-2/

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was going to make the same comment. What's lost in the distortion of image for propaganda, and even in the discussion of what really happened at Tiananmen is this:

It's an incredibly human moment. Amidst days of protests, lynchings, shootings, beatings, fire and violence two people had a conversation. We don't know what was said or who they were. They could have screamed insults at each other, pleaded to see each other's point of view, or just talked about crazy this had all gotten. But they had a conversation, as two people and the result was that everyone lived.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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