Ahemmmmm…
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It’s really echoey in here today.e
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.
Thanks, IE6!
I think it’s pretty awesome that the tank drivers didn’t flatten the guy.
They did, however, flatten many other students with tanks during that protest.
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.
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.
Yeah, in the West they would have just rolled right over the top of him.
(Incidentally, it’s interesting that westerners post this - truncated - clip almost constantly, yet most of them have never even seen a photo of Rachel Corrie)
Incidentally, thousands of people were killed in Tiananmen Square. Even today, people are being oppressed for even talking about it.
I think Chinese did the right thing. Look where they now.
I think it’s not awesome that DeepSeek isn’t allowed to talk about this subject whatsoever
What happened to the guy in this after? Iv been meaning to look it up
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Nothing. He climbed up on the tank and started yelling at the driver.
Reminder that Donald Trump admires the Tiananmen Square massacre and told Playboy all about it in an interview right after it happened
Reminder that Israel crushes so many people under tanks that it traumatizes their soldiers, and slavish devotion to them is bipartisan.
And look - china came out on top.
And guess what - they have uhc, guaranteed vacations and u don’t.
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If u break your leg - is hospital going to turn u away?
If u don’t have insurance - are u going to owe 200k for broken leg?If you cant pay for treatment - do they take your house?
I think u maybe confused about what universal health care is.
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A tankie that has no idea what they’re talking about? Shocking!
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The tanks were lEAviNg ThE sQuaRe!
Are you denying basic geography now?
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.
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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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.”
It’s not that bad for white people yet
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.
Yeah, you need the wealthy with time and resources to be on your side or else you are just the peasants revolting which they all already think we are.
No, you need crime. The tax cut would have affected the tea smuggling profits.
Yeah. The smugglers were making bank though.
Its kinda the rule that the government is filled with old mafia once they realize they can make a lot of money being the government.So I guess in this case we need the companies that are acting as mafia to want the change. Which brings us back to the wealthy.
He was clearly outside of the crosswalk.
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.
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
