141
"It'S jUsT lIkE tHe tIaNaNmEn SqArE!"
(lemmygrad.ml)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2026
141 points (98.6% liked)
Memes
4768 readers
116 users here now
Good memes, bad memes, unite towards a united front.
founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
He was some random guy who got pulled away by bystanders in a period before mass surveillance was possible and when everyone involved was really fucking tired of all the fighting and wanted to go home and rest. What racist brainworm is piloting your body to make you say shit like "he was probably executed?" What evidence leads you to that conclusion? Check yourself.
the vast majority of people in china are executed, often many times a month, so it's just simple math
it's pretty common to be executing one week then getting executed the next.
still better than north korea, where there's only one executioner in the whole country and everyone has to get behind him and push
The executioner also doubles as the only train in the country!
President Xi personally executes all those who do not execute themselves.
There is nothing that suggests he was anything more than a random passer-by (as evidenced by the shopping bags he was carrying). And an elderly one at that. That means he was very likely not part of the student protests, and certainly not one of its leaders.
If the Chinese government was to arrest and punish someone it would be the leaders/instigators of the color revolution attempt. And they would not simply "disappear" them, they would make sure to put them on trial. That is much more effective at a) exposing them as traitors to the nation and agents of foreign powers, and b) dissuading others from associating with their movement.
Unfortunately, Western intelligence agencies smuggled most of the main leaders/instigators out of the country and subsequently gave them high paying jobs in the West. As for the "tank man", there is no reason to assume that anything more happened to him than continuing to live his normal life. More than likely he was, as most elderly Chinese people are, extremely patriotic. We do not even know why he wanted to talk to the tank driver.
Please recognize that unfounded and baseless narratives constructed around that footage have been used by anti-China propagandists to drum up sinophobia and anti-communist sentiments. We do not need to be feeding into that with sensationalist speculation. Stick to what is factual and reasonable.
Other leaders were not executed, because the US smuggled them out of country into the US where they live comfortably to this day.
Assuming there could have been consequences for breaking the law is not “racist”.
Why isn't the penalty for blocking traffic a fine? What about community service, or probation? He's obviously not part of the protests or the militants, since they are several blocks away from Tiannamen Square. Why does your mind immediately jump to execution?
You know deep in your heart why. Confronting racist things you were taught doesn't make you a bad person—introspection is good!
My mind jumps to that because thats what our propaganda has told us. Obviously. It’s what we are talking about here specifically. Race does not factor in here at ground level.
It does, actually. You're just unaware of it.
By what mechanism do you propose he was found and executed? The guy in the tank draws a masterpiece from memory and then the cops go door to door throughout the entire city to find this guy who... climbed on a tank? Really?
If there's no evidence either way, apply Occams Razor. Less events have to line up for him to just having vanished among the population, thus making this outcome the likely one.