And if something did maybe happen, it's the CIA's fault
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"After several weeks of standoffs and violent confrontations between the army and demonstrators left many on both sides severely injured, a meeting held among the CCP's top leadership on 1 June concluded with a decision to clear the square.[15][13][14] The troops advanced into central parts of Beijing on the city's major thoroughfares in the early morning hours of 4 June and engaged in bloody clashes with demonstrators attempting to block them, in which many people – demonstrators, bystanders, and soldiers – were killed. Estimates of the death toll vary from several hundred to several thousand, with thousands more wounded.[16][17][18][19][20][21]"
When you go to Wikipedia, click on those numbers in the brackets
As I said, there were clashes at major thoroughfares surrounding the square, there was not tanks gunning down masses of protesters inside the square.
Who said anything about tanks shooting people? Did you just make that up and denied it yourself? Lmao.
Student protesters where shot up and killed. Indiscriminataley. I could not fucking care less what type of pew pew was used.
Yeah but if you don't know what exact bullet they used or what they had for breakfast that morning then your argument is invalid I'm afraid /s
ACAB
Like clockwork you're here to deny the many atrocities of authoritarian despots.
What do you even get out of constantly getting your metaphoric-cock beaten into the dirt 2 dozen times a day?
What exactly do you think happened, and what do you think I am claiming happened?
I am not deflecting, I am trying to understand what you think I am denying.
Everything I've said happened, protesters lynching police and police gunning down protesters in the streets surrounding the square, is reflected in the wikipedia article, the only thing that I've denied, that masses of unarmed students were gunned down and run over by tanks in the square, is proven false in the tankman video, which I linked.
Wait I also denied that China claims nothing happened at Tienanmen square, that's also proven by the official Chinese account of what happened in the Wikipedia article.
Yes, I did. Tianmen square massacre deniers make me mad.
It should make you mad as well, if you were a decent person.
Wikipedia indicates there wasn't a massacre in Tiananmen square: "Several people who were situated around the square that night, including former Beijing bureau chief of The Washington Post Jay Mathews[f] and CBS correspondent Richard Roth[g] reported that while they had heard sporadic gunfire, they could not find enough evidence to suggest that a massacre took place on the square"
"In 2011, three secret cables from the United States embassy in Beijing agreed there was no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square.[244] Instead, they said Chinese soldiers opened fire on protesters outside the square as they fought their way from the west towards the center.[244] A Chilean diplomat who had been positioned next to a Red Cross station inside the square told his US counterparts that he did not observe any mass firing of weapons into the crowds in the square itself, although sporadic gunfire was heard. He said that most of the troops who entered the square were armed only with anti-riot gear."
While they do provide sources that say the student death toll was likely high, most sources estimate around 500. (Again, not in the square itself)
I'm just trying to be factual- the students were funded and supported by Western forces including the United States, probably not to help the students and spread democracy and capitalism, but to create division. The students clashed with China's fucked up communist government and military. There's not too many possibilities when a civilian force clashes with a state military.
I support you if you oppose China's actions here, I just think saying there was a massacre in Tiananmen square is insincere.
Fucking delusional.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-tiananmen-square-demonstrations-crackdown-2022-06-02/
Okay, that's Wikipedia that I quoted
Thanks, it's called a typo.
No nuance, only china bad evil commees who kill their own people because they hate freedom.
Nah, China kills it's own people because the ruler can't ever tolerate handing power to anyone else.
Nice try tho 🤡
The average CPC presidency length over the last 70 years is like 8 years.
And how long do you think Winnie's reign will be?
Well he's incredibly popular, so probably quite long unless he starts fucking up or gets coup'd by capitalists in the party ala Yeltsin.
Unlike Hu Jintao's path, he isn't struggling to manage the contradictions between the interests of the national bourgeoisie against those of the working class.
Easy to seem popular when you make people who are against you disappear
I'd examine why you think that's how China works, but we're at conspiracy-theory level nonsense where you'll just keep making up shit to justify your original position.
Instead lets stay on solid ground: What policies or actions has Xi Jinping taken that you feel hurt his popularity? (Or would have, if everyone in China wasn't afraid to say so for fear of getting disappeared)
Right, ministers just disappear but that's just shit that happens... Did you also know that in Russia suicide by defenestration is just what people do after criticizing Putin?
Which ministers?
You're never going to convert sinophobes. It's like trying to convert white supremacists, except even more unlikely to work since there is zero pressure to not be sinophobic in society.
Criticizing a regime isn't racism against the people living under that regime.
The people control that regime in a much more robust democracy than the US has.
This has nothing to do with what I was saying. Try again.
Let's agree that both are bad. What is your goal with this whataboutism?
Imagine knowing what words mean.
At this point I should ask for a delicious cookie recipe...
Only when someone denies the massacre do I link to these horrific NSFL photos.
You do know that the pictures support what he said right? There's pictures of dead soldiers because they weren't given ammo when marching into the city. Once they started getting killed, they gave them ammo and they just started shooting everybody. Before then the protesters smashed their heads, stripped them, and burned them.
The ones who stayed in the square were mostly the peaceful hunger strikers and not the fighters so the square itself was cleared without much trouble compared to the march into the city.
Your comment after being imported into China:
~~The chinese narrative isn’t that~~ nothing happened ~~, it’s that there was a battle outside the square, including protesters lynching and burning cops and cops gunning down unarmed protesters on bikes from their trucks~~. This is corroborated by videos and pictures.
The western narrative ~~of tanks going into the square and gunning down tens of thousands of protesters (after getting delayed by tank man)~~ is blatantly false, ~~as you can see in the uncut tankman video pans over to show the square the tanks are leaving was empty~~ except for some bikes.
ACAB 😄🖕
https://youtu.be/kMKvxJ-Js3A
Fuck you.