• 运气好@lemmygrad.ml
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    Day after day westoid libs and an unfortunate swathe of the western “left” on here and across the internet convince me more and more that the biggest enemy of the global working class is not just the imperial core ruling class but the entire treatlerite people.

    They speak with such arrogance on topics they clearly know less than nothing about talking down to us like we’re brainwashed bugs incapable of our own thoughts ideas and experiences and in need of the great white saviours who are so superior not only intellectually but morally. It makes me sick.

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      People in the west are taught white supremacism from birth, they don’t use that name for it, but that is what it is, that the west is more “developed” more “learned” than the rest of the world, and that your average westerner is inherently superior to all others and is more knowledgeable. If you push your way out of this mindset you are ostracised and alienated, to a more extreme degree than one is ostracised for being a “leftist” so you get a lot of western “leftists” who still have a massive amount of white supremacist brainworms.

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    With apologies to y’all for opportunistically using this post -

    Does anyone have a link to a collected set of videos of Good’s murder? Either just for viewing, or download? I finally have an opening with someone in my life to help them peer behind the propaganda veil, could be a turning point for them, they’ve signaled openness. Need full length, no distraction, multi angle footage for greatest effect.

    I saw a link to something similar posted a few days ago (zero recollection where) and have been trying to find it.

    I’d ask in my own instance (and maybe still will) but frankly I came here first cuz y’all have been considerably less…“messy”? for a while now.

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      15 hours ago

      Another View of Tiananmen | Redsails (Sun Feiyang, Roderic Day)

      This article’s great because it’s aimed at people that probably are already vaguely familiar with the narrative of there being a massacre being BS but shows a lot more information that will be interesting to leftists who want to learn more about China and Reform and Opening Up era.

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    16 hours ago

    One of them was taken before

    One of them was taken after

    What’s your point?

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        1 second after the video ends, the person in the tank changes their mind and drives back to the square to unleash unlimited genocide on all the bicycles.

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            I actually did click on it and start reading it, because this has been the most decent response in the thread so far (despite the condescension - the bar is pretty low, to be fair). The loaded language was already quite something. And I tried to find more information on the source. Well, the website doesn’t exist anymore and I’m hard pressed to find any reliable information about it. So… Maybe not the most reliable source.

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              Buddy, you don’t get to say things like “despite the condescension” when you came in here suggesting that we should take a fantasy you made up in your head seriously as if that was a matter of historical record.

              And it’s not like you deserve it, but here’s an essay from a Chinese scholar and a Canadian-Peruvian Marxist synthesizing together a few dozen first hand accounts and historical documents/articles about the event.

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              loaded language

              bourgeois media is filled with loaded language but it doesn’t register to you because of your chauvinism

            • Kumikommunism [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
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              And what was the reliable source where you got your current belief?

              That was not the most decent answer, and you are a liar. Someone asked you why you believed he was killed, and you ignored it. Because you know the answer isn’t a good one.

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              this piece in the Columbia Journalism Review by a western journalist who was there still has some of the liberal brainworms but solidly shows that the conventional narrative is bullshit:

              The Myth of Tiananmen | Columbia Journalism Review

              The problem is this: as far as can be determined from the available evidence, no one died that night in Tiananmen Square.

              I look forward to hearing how a primary witness writing in CJR is unreliable

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                Most of the hundreds of foreign journalists that night, including me, were in other parts of the city or were removed from the square so that they could not witness the final chapter of the student story.

                Right, all the media was ushered out so that they couldn’t see the peaceful ending. Seems legit. But OK, let’s assume it’s the case. Whatever.

                Hundreds of people, most of them workers and passersby, did die that night, but in a different place and under different circumstances. […] Many victims were shot by soldiers on stretches of Changan Jie, the Avenue of Eternal Peace, about a mile west of the square, and in scattered confrontations in other parts of the city

                What are workers and passersby? Right, civilians.

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                  I’m struggling to see what revelation you’ve identified here that is so scandalous. Yes, the Chinese government killed several hundred Chinese civilians surrounding the Tiananmen Square in the 1989 protests. Has anyone claimed otherwise?

                  Your original claim was that the man pictured in the OP in front of the tanks was executed. That claims remains as baseless as China overseas.

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          Not exactly , and nor do you, but there’s no reason to think he would be allowed to berate a tank commander for iirc ~15 minutes including climbing up on the tank, then be secretly killed later. You believe the CPC had no problem killing however many people openly in the streets, in front of foreign diplomats and journalists, but this one dude had to be spirited away and secretly murdered? Please use a little common sense. I’m guessing you believe there were thousands killed in the protests. I’ll allow that, it’s hard to tell exactly what happened in Beijing over 30 years ago. You also believe I assume that those were peaceful protestors killed in cold blood. I don’t know if you realise this but the events were documented by non-chinese sources including the Belgian ambassador to China - and the government knew that was going on at the time. What makes you think they suddenly became so squeamish around this one guy? Far more likely it’s exactly what it looks like - he was led away by neighbours and the government just let sleeping dogs lie. There’s nothing to be gained from going after him and no evidence that it happened.

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            I’m guessing you believe there were thousands killed in the protests. I’ll allow that, it’s hard to tell exactly what happened in Beijing over 30 years ago.

            I wouldn’t go that far. No contemporary sources claim thousands were killed and it’s hard to see how that’s possible. The actual sources that were present at the time are consistent with the official claims of several hundred dead but no more than 1000.

            Even in the Gwangju Uprising only 165 people were massacred, and that was a proper contemporaneous massacre (as opposed to the skirmishes around Tiananmen Square in June 1989 where the protesters were firing back).

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          No one knows.

          You simply have a fantasy that aligns with how you see the world - have declared that to be the absolute truth - and hold that anyone who doesn’t also indulge in same fantasy for the same reason must be the enemy; pure evil. What a whimsical way for the human mind to work.

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              We were taught in school that the video ended with the guy standing there and that no other footage made it out of the evil dictatorship.

              I only more recently learned the video goes on for some time

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              I just read some of the comments in the first thread you linked and whew. It’s just thoughtless lib regurgitation countered by pages of material analysis which elicit no response or the most milquetoast “interesting!” from people who will clearly never click a single resource linked

              All I can say is, infinite flowers for the comrades posting on the frontlines of the war on brainworms

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                This particular exchange will live in my head rent free forever.

                Presents basic argument

                Receives basic response justified by very simple theory

                Goes on rant about how the concept of even having political theory at all is bad and limits your perspective

                Academics hate this one simple trick to never having to read anything: have you considered that thinking about things ahead of time and writing down your observations is tyranny?

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                  Why do these people always have the same insufferable tone of “I refuse to engage with your arguments, not because I don’t understand them or don’t have anything meaningful to respond with, but because I am at a higher level of evolution than you simpletons. Having no opinions is the ultimate proof of intellectual rigour” grhshahhshd

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          Look I already replied but it would mean a lot to me if you could explain what the point of leaving these 2 comments was. Are you trying to convince anyone by saying what you imagined happened with literally 0 evidence? Are you just performing something where you get to interact with people and contradict them just to feel smarter? Like what was the plan here?

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          You certainly don’t but you heard rumors that still confirm whatever bias you wanted to keep from before you knew a video was “hiding in plain sight.”

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          Do you have the blueprints for the time machine you used to go back to 1989 and stalk tank man and find out what happened? Why have you not shared this technology with the rest of the world?

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          Tank Man was hauled off (by either fellow civilians or plain-clothes cops, we’ll never know), and the tanks drove home.

          The violence was the day before.

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            I think they’re suggesting that the government then extrajudicially executed the tank man.

            One would wonder what the government would stand to gain from killing a nameless man who stood in front of some tanks, delaying them for a few seconds. Wanted to stop him from standing in front of more tanks?

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              One would wonder what the government would stand to gain from killing a nameless man who stood in front of some tanks, delaying them for a few seconds.

              Going to stop you right there. They did it because they needed a moment of individual brutality that makes the audience feel bad for the people the villains are oppressing, so it is satisfying when the heroes go in and stop the evil dictatorship at the end of the movie. I would’ve preferred if they showed a scene with tank man’s loving family before he was brutally killed to inspire the good guys, but they probably had to leave that on the cutting room floor so the overall flow of the scene worked better.

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              I think it’s easy to get to that conclusion if you only have the image to go by and haven’t researched more into what happened.

              Good on china if they were lenient on the guy.