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
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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.
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Fuck em. Let em come.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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???
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?
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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.
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Well, the tankies are correct on that one.
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Reminder that Donald Trump admires the Tiananmen Square massacre and told Playboy all about it in an interview right after it happened
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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?
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
The cut off clip is meant to imply a lot of things which did not happen.
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He’s lucky it isn’t an Israeli tank, else he would have gotten run over.
Guess Feng Zhang just dropped his legs on the floor because he didn't want them.
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."
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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I think it's pretty awesome that the tank drivers didn't flatten the guy.
I think it's not awesome that DeepSeek isn't allowed to talk about this subject whatsoever
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You have titled this as though nobody has ever seen it before.
I titled it to poke at 'murica for their inaction against their dictatorial regime because it is affecting my family and my country.
That's a deep cut, and I missed it.
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Tankies hate this one weird trick
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.
Oh my God that tank was going out of its way too run that guy over! ~/s~
I saw the full video, he eventually climbs up the tank and then is forcefully taken away. He never gets run over.
*taken away by other protesters, not the army, to be clear
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