Ahemmmmm…
I think it’s pretty awesome that the tank drivers didn’t flatten the guy.
Reminder that Donald Trump admires the Tiananmen Square massacre and told Playboy all about it in an interview right after it happened
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
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.
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’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.
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
Well, the tankies are correct on that one.
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
Fuck em. Let em come.
In the US they run over protesters. Just sayin.
One more commonality between China and the US.
Tank man didn’t get run over.
Do people not know this?
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 included to think this was an accident.
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, 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).
???
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
What happened to the guy in this after? Iv been meaning to look it up
Nothing. He climbed up on the tank and started yelling at the driver.
gro-cer-ies…such a strange and mythical word
Some people call it food.
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.
Then do something about it instead of the laziest thing imaginable. Let me know when I can expect to see you in the news for your brave actions.
I am Canadian. You continue to not act and I am just as fucked as you. We will mount a resistance though. Many are already economically by supporting a very prominent buy Canada campaign, cross border travel has decreased by ~40% over a year ago from Canada to the US, our government has instituted reciprocal tarrifs and laid out a plan to defend the country I am certain. There is even a rumor circulating that Canada started a world wide slow selloff of American Treasury bonds that I certainly hope is true because honestly, it would be a master stroke of genius.
Many individuals are openly preparing for war. Taking classes, buying guns, training for first aid, joining mutual aid orgs, saving money to fly their kids out of country if they can, when it becomes necessary. Hell, yesterday we had record turnout for voting at advanced polls for our federal election. I and the rest of my country are doing our part at home thank you.
Funny that we can see what’s necessary as can the rest of the world but you are blind to it and fight against recognising it for what it is.
I am also doing something else. I am coming to Lemmy every day. I am consistently challenging American exceptionalism and individualism like yours, in the face of personal attacks and possible doxing.
Here’s the Canadian…
I’m sorry but you will likely be lumped in with the regime when the world comes knocking, as inaction is seen as blatantly approving of the actions of your dictator. Just a little bit from Nuremberg.
Americans are protesting
https://bsky.app/profile/50501movement.bsky.social
Now those are organized weekly, there’s also a continuous protest starting in DC on May https://maydaymovementusa.org/
Bernie Sanders also has Fight the Oligarchy Tour that was highly successful even in the very red states.
The biggest problem though is that this time majority of media bent the knee, and tries to not report, and when they do, minimize the attendance.
It seems like that unfortunately also affects international coverage.
You are governed by a dictator who has unlimited power enshrined by your highest court. He will not be stopped without agression. He is not the type to step down I’m sure you know.
My very liberal, anti gun Canadian friends are literally training at the range every week right now and just bought their first guns. They aren’t the only ones.
I’d encourage you to step up your game.
Got it. So you want to tell people how they should use violence while you sit around pretending to be doing something. How long do you need to sit around & prepare. Should I plan on seeing your declaration of war in the next week or so?
Don’t feel bad you’re lazy and can’t manage to stand up for yourself. It’s ok. The camps will be fun. Just like summer when you were a kid.
When I have the opportunity to use violence against incursion by your fascist regime into my country I will. As of yet I have no reason to be violent. We’re a peaceful country for the most part. You on.the other hand…
I got in “the paper.”
He was clearly outside of the crosswalk.
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
The tanks were lEAviNg ThE sQuaRe!
