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One person stopping a vehicle, the other judging the people in the vehicle like a disappointed parent.
Direct link to the actual toot source.
The second image is a bit on the nose IMO. The comparison was clear enough from the original. And yeah maybe some people need it pointed out to them, but I suspect those people are also the ones who will reject the idea regardless.
There are probably some out there, especially younger people or those who have only recently started educating themselves, who simply haven’t seen the second image before.
Maybe, but I’d say if they don’t know Tank Man, seeing it in this context without further explanation is still unhelpful. Because they’re likely to think it’s a photo taken in America today.
not to mention the amount of people who dont know its a still of a video with tiananmen square in the background.
i didn’t even see the guy in the first picture until i looked at the second and realized what i should be looking for
Huh, fair enough.
Tankman travels through time!
Wait until the tankies come in here and tell you this guy was trying to stop them from leaving and asking them to go back and detain more immigrants while also claiming there were no immigrants there anyways
If you are talking about tank man i can just show you you can clearly see tiananmen square in the background and the direction the tanks are going and where the guy is pointing.
can’t wait for that one guy from .ml to show up and argue that Tiananmen Square was a peaceful protest and post links claiming that there were no deaths recorded there.
You dont need to make a strawman of what mls believe, you can just quote the wikipedia and ignore the claims by countries that have a reason to fabricate hostile evidence. If you want to go further, look at testimonies by witnesses that corroborate the side opposed to where they currently live.
Its also important to try to understand why the chinese feel the issue is contentious and the various perspectives, as opposed to letting the other side tell you how the chinese feel and why.
There is no positive justification for tanks on a city street what the fuck are you even talking about.
it’s a new account of a known tankie. Just block and ignore
There were no deaths recorded there though. Here is what a reporter of the washington post who was in Beijing at the time says about that.
IIRC, The chinese government say 200 something died, and presumably they have more information than a wapo reporter, since they can ask the hospitals and witnesses to verify the police and military reports.
Source?
Some minister, 15 days after the events, according to a paywalled book in 1998, according to wikipedia.
The death toll was certainly greater than zero, theres pictures of dead soldiers and like 2 dozen protestors in the streets surrounding the square.
Ive read parts of the wikipedia page on it and it says the chinese gov states there were around 20 soldiers killed, but it doesnt mention civilians killed, plus a bunch of injured people. That minister really says something about 200 dead?
I believe those were from the fighting happening elsewhere since there was an active rebellion going on with soldiers being lynched etc. What the wapo reporter is speaking against is this idea in the western mind of peaceful protesters on tiananmen square being mowed down by gunfire.
Ok yeah no nobody who has done as minimal investigation as “looking at the square in the background of the tankman video” and cares about the incident beyond its utility as hostile evidence believes that, I assumed we were talking about the entire incident.
Thats precisely the distinction the wapo reporter makes
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Perception is more powerful than reality. You think the tankman from china actually accomplished much. But he is still a symbol today.
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But do they have the same optics. Will they be perceived like this one? Probably not.
Okay post a really good picture right here in the thread.
I still find it so odd the tank didn’t want to run him over, when just the day before they had tanks running over hundreds of bodies over and over to the point where they could just spray the remains with a fire hose into the sewer.
When there are many people, you don’t have to look at individual faces. When it is one calm and harmless man, you can find the tank driver is human too. The driver was probably execured or something for not running the guy over.
It’s more than any of us have done. Often, genuine actions and words are much stronger than any impact they may initially have.
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We can’t keep fighting with the weapons of yesterday. Like it or not, propaganda is a part of resistance. Look back at all the WW2 propaganda in the US and the UK. We must take control of the message.
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The blocker pussied out in the end? Was about to get his own Tiananmen moment but decided that taking a stand for what’s right should only come when personally safe to do so
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what does that even mean?
It means that of you think he did it wrong then you should go out there and do it right yourself.
I’ll leave that for any Americans left. Fix your own country. Call me when this fascist takeover shit is happening in Ottawa.
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Just another American wanting a foreigner to do all the work, eh? Typical.
In the U.S, our tanks would run them over
this is in the US
It indeed is in the US, and the Hummer kept moving and would have run the guy over, if he had not stepped aside.
Yes, I was making the comparison to that one event in China to this event (in the u.s) saying that our tanks (literal or metaphorical for a member of a military convoy) would run over our protestors instead of stopping.
I want to see the US soldier who swore to uphold the US Constitution operating a tank run down US citizens on US soil. Then we will know for sure China has won.
Why does it have to be specifically a tank?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:United_States_military_killing_of_American_civilians
What do you mean? Is it china that has forced the usa to be violent to its own citizens?
lol sure
china???
10 men!
