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China tightens access to Tiananmen Square while 32 are detained in Hong Kong (www.npr.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

Don't ever let anyone forget or brush under the rug the horrible acts that occurred in Tiananmen Square on June 4th, 1989.

https://www.history.com/topics/asian-history/tiananmen-square

[+] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why make/go to another political echo chamber over potentially getting "ratio'd" (which is meaningless and doesnt say anything about one's argument). Anyone has the right to post something no matter what people around think. Posting all this on an instance that would be INSTANTLY defederated by instances like lemmygrad is pointless and we'd just end up with less debate and more polarization.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey, I just wanted to clarify something because I wasn't sure from reading your comment, but Lemmygrad federates with everyone by default, except instances that have caused us troll waves in the past. We federate with e.g. lemmy.one and beehaw.org, but they instantly blocked us on day one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

We do also block the nazis

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No thanks. I don't give a fuck about getting ratio'd. Let the people decide. Assuming this platform ever gets more traction, which it seems to be doing, the vast majority of the people that come here won't be tankies so... no, no I don't think I will go somewhere else.

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

These people really want their echo chamber, not a good look for Lemmy imo

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

echo chamber? youre the one echoing western corporate media narrative.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have done no such thing lol. I’ve made two comments one making fun of the guy that said china isn’t part of world news and this one. Your comment trying to paint me in this light just reeks of desperation or the inability to read

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

I'm sorry let me clarify. By 'you' I mean the influx of users with a predominantly western liberal mindset.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So posting one article about china bad is an influx of new users with a predominantly western liberal mindset echoing the corporate media narrative. Seems like a bit of a reach.

If someone posted some bad shit about USA nobody would give af and would mostly agree, you just seem like you don’t want anything critical of china

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

Hey, tankies, decent countries don't have to violently suppress their populations and then lie about it. Oh, and socialism is worker ownership of the means of production, not whatever the fuck they're doing in China.

(inb4 people assuming I must support the US since I hate China)

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

Decent countries. What a slippery slope for supremacist thoughts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Lol. Thinking some countries have better governments than others is supremacist? Whatever, dude.

By the way. If there are any countries with decent governments, I don't know of them. But like. If there were decent countries, they wouldn't behave like China.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Meanwhile in Taiwan, the island's equivalent of the Tiananmen massacre from the KMT dictatorship (the 228 incident) has its own memorial park and museum.

No need for a self-inflicted legitimacy crisis when you respect your citizens' basic rights.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure I understand China's reactions here... if nothing happened, then why not just let them congregate and "remember" something that supposedly didn't happen? What's the harm? If they were blocking traffic or riots were involved, it would understandable to want to stop it, but if it's peaceful, where's the harm? Unless of course, something did happen that they want people to forget...

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