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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
Can the tankies even see the gif?
Prolly, I'm on ml
WHY are you on ml, though, if you're not a tankie?
It said technology oriented, self-hosting, privacy stuff and I didn't know any better. It doesn't seem to degrade my experience, I browse what I browse. I haven't bothered to move, mostly out of laziness
Pretty much the same for me. I'm a FLOSS developer and it made sense to join the host closest to the development of Lemmy. I don't really follow any of the more political groups, I'm mostly here for the science, trek and programming memes. I guess I'll have to test the subscription portability if the home server gets more widely de-federated though.
There's more kinds of Communist than Stalinist.
Of course, but .ml is mostly by and for Marxist-Leninists aka Stalinists aka tankies.
Dessalines himself banned me for a month from several communities (including technology and memes) for very mildly criticizing Chinese government authoritarianism in a comment in the .ml world politics community and that's very typical of ml moderation.
Damn they sound based
What was the comment you got banned for?
Fuck em. Let em come.
This gif that's objectively depicting tanks leaving the square?
They think it's AI generated.
In the US they run over protesters. Just sayin.
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
Liberals always tell me to support the lesser evil when it's election time, but when I apply that logic to geopolitics they get mad lol
When it comes to voting you are presented with a choice. You can abstain, but you will have to live with the result. You lose nothing by making as best of a choice as you can. To date I've not once been presented with the option to move to a new country, but if either were better I would chose the best option for myself even if neither is ideal.
Both can still be bad options, but I find it hard to believe that neither is better than the other.
Functionality when it comes to geopolitics I get absolutely no choice on it, so there's not really a point in ranking evil unless I get the opportunity to chose. Then I absolutely will rank evils to find the best place for myself
By your logic, there's not really a point in declaring evil. You might as well have no opinion about any of this.
Why even learn about geopolitics or other countries in the first place? You get "absolutely no choice on it" after all.
You might as well say nothing at all.
I see no point in ranking evil, however my country does interact on a global stage and theoretically that is guided by our representatives that the people chose. It's good to stay informed and know which countries regularly abuse human rights. It's a long list.
Ideally I will be able to vote for a canidate that does not want to funnel money to Israel, they are perpetuating a genocide after all. If one is not available I'll go down a long list of issues to determine the best choice.
And I try to choose representatives that will keep their hands off China.
i do see a point.
one is meddling in my country and is raising hell all over the planet.
the other hasn't dropped a single bomb in more than 50 years.
Is there a forty year old truncated clip of a protestor not being harmed in America that you endlessly reposted, including every time America is mentioned? Or do you just do that with China?
One more commonality between China and the US.
Tank man didn't get run over.
Do people not know this?
No, it just caused a giant massacre when they didn't run him over. Much better.
How does that make sense?
They didn't run this guy over as they were leaving the square well after the events of that night had ended. I don't believe there's any proven record of tanks killing anyone at all (specifically tanks, I'm not denying that there was bloodshed).
I've seen a few photos of bodies that looked run over. But nothing that rises to that insane claim that sometimes floats around that they mushed a crowed and washed them down the drain.
What?
What exactly do you think happened?
No, because the whole thing wasn't commonly aired, most people I ever heard talking about invented a completely different ending which they swore they saw.
No, Not Tank man. But Feng Zhang for example.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feng_Zhang
This guy? Doesn't look like he got run over to me.
Mixed up vowels: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fang_Zheng
Based on the fact that he got medical attention and based on the tanks explicitly not running over Tank Man, I'm inclined to think this was an accident.
He got medical attention not from the military, but because other protesters rushed him to a hospital.
The military allowed those other protesters to rush him to a hospital and allowed the hospital to treat him. Why didn't the military stop them?
Queer, we've met a couple of times on this platform. We both know you would not extend the same benefit of the doubt to, say, the forces perpetrating the 1968 Orangeburg massacre. They too allowed people to be treated by hospitals. They too allowed protesters to be rushed to safety after being shot. Hell, they even took them there themselves.
So why would we do that to the military?
There's a vast difference between someone getting run over and someone being shot. Being run over can actually be an accident. Opening fire is never an accident.
Also, people get gunned down by the US government all the time. It's extremely common. China doesn't resort to that kind of violence nearly as often.
we usually come to point out that if this event was so brutal why didn't this guy get run over?
are you guys aware this guy has a friendly chat with the driver afterwards, right? all captured on camera too, i'm pretty sure there are close up photos beyond just the video.
why do liberals love using this image as some symbol of chinese evil.
Wonder what his name is
slim shady
???
Citing objective geographic reality of the tanks leaving the square makes one a tankie?
Are you people on fucking shrooms?
Guys check this out, maps and directions are tankie now lmfao what's next, GPS is a communist mind control satellite constellation?
Lack of reading comprehension claims yet another victim
I swear they edited it
Either that or the weed was stronger than I expected
There's an edit icon next to the comment so you have that going for you.
I edited the word patriot when my phone originally autocorrected to parrot, if you're talking about me.
Acknowledging objective facts does seem to be the main thing western liberals hate tankies for, yes
Well, the tankies are correct on that one.
That they are leaving the square is literally an undisputable fact though. Are undisputed facts "tankie" now?