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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (15 children)

Wait until the tankies come in here to tell you that he's a patriot trying to stop them from leaving the square so they could continue to keep the peace

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Can the tankies even see the gif?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (8 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fuck em. Let em come.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (16 children)

In the US they run over protesters. Just sayin.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Based on some of the other comments you're making, yes more than one country can be bad. And the crazy part is it doesn't justify either country, both are still bad

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Reminder that Donald Trump admires the Tiananmen Square massacre and told Playboy all about it in an interview right after it happened

https://www.businessinsider.com/trumpn-tiananmen-square-massacre-china-showed-power-of-strength-2019-6

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

He’s lucky it isn’t an Israeli tank, else he would have gotten run over.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Guess Feng Zhang just dropped his legs on the floor because he didn't want them.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Why did you cut off the part where he climbs up the tank and starts yelling at the tank driver?

Why is the clip zoomed in to not show that the tank is driving away from the square?

https://youtu.be/FaojdRThXbY

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

there are multiple versions of the clip and the associated lore floating around and if you don't spend enough time with what happened at the time you can easily be convinced of a variety of viewpoints

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The cut off clip is meant to imply a lot of things which did not happen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Occam's razor, you're on the Internet, bad crops are practically a meme. Personally, I distinctly remember watching the entire uncropped video multiple times throughout grade school and high school in the US

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Americans (in 1775): Declares war with one of the most powerful empires in history over taxes

The French: Decapitates the upper classes due to hoarding wealth and creating class imbalance

Haitians: Fights against their former masters in the name of freedom and the end of slavery

The French (again): Fights back against one of the most cruel regimes in history to free their occupied homeland from Nazi rule

Americans (now): "Oh I hope that if the message on my sign is passive aggressive enough the fascists will leave the government out of shame."

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The Boston Tea party got started because of a tax cut from the British Empire. It was a whole different bunch declaring war than what people are lead to believe.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I think it's pretty awesome that the tank drivers didn't flatten the guy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They did, however, flatten many other students with tanks during that protest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

They didn't, they beat them to death in the side streets and disappeared known leaders, get it right!

Also the diplomatic cable that refers to armor units attacking the protestors in the Square which was denied by journalists on site specified APCs, jeez.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Fyi to others: You can search images of bikes completely flattened with blood all around them and other pictures of protesters laying on the ground among bikes with injuries no human could inflict without something very heavy. I remember first seeing these pictures in the 2000s. Horrific.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

gro-cer-ies…such a strange and mythical word

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You have titled this as though nobody has ever seen it before.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (14 children)

I titled it to poke at 'murica for their inaction against their dictatorial regime because it is affecting my family and my country.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

That's a deep cut, and I missed it.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Tankies hate this one weird trick

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Jeff Widener, the photographer who took this photo, describes the protests. He wasn't feeling well because a protester had smashed him in the head with a rock. His description starts at 2m30s.

https://youtu.be/J0oV5DwIDZo

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