"Ha ha, I don't believe in tankies, I've never even seen a tankie" - UnderpantsWeevil immediately above a tankie denying the Tienanmen Square Massacre

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"Ha ha, I don't believe in tankies, I've never even seen a tankie" - UnderpantsWeevil immediately above a tankie denying the Tienanmen Square Massacre
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Name some name

Dessaline.

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@underpantsweevil@lemmy.world

Happy to name some names:

participating in Tienanmen revisionism to glorify that time when students violently attempted to create a counter-revolution and killed 200 soldiers while the US cheered them on hoping for another color revolution.

-@freagle@lemmygrad.ml (link)

Everything I’ve said happened, protesters lynching police and police gunning down protesters in the streets surrounding the square, is reflected in the wikipedia article, the only thing that I’ve denied, that masses of unarmed students were gunned down and run over by tanks in the square, is proven false in the tankman video, which I linked.

-@alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml (link)

The Chinese Communist Party has its own version of Limited Hangout and goes to some length to assert that the riots in Tienanmen were the result of outside agitation, the civilian death toll was minimal, and the reforms that followed succeeded in restoring trust in the national government.

-@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world (link)

Then of course there is dessalines from the sticky post. I think that covers every element of toolshed’s progression with some amount of overlap.

This is a little tangential but also funny. In the course of this I found:

.ml very often features criticism about Russia and/or China without being removed. Case in point the Tienanmen square posts yesterday and today. But because it also allows viewpoints which .world users have never experienced in their life they can’t help it but start a shit-slinging contest in comment sections.

-Linkerbaan@lemmy.world, click the link for punchline

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This is a who’s who list of embarrassingly sad mouth breathing blowhards. With evidence.

Well done!

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Happy to name some names

Brother, selectively quoting history you don’t like is not denying history you get off to

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Oh! I forgot, IndustryStandard also said “it literally did not happen on video” in the comment right below yours.

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There you go then. You’ve got one

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Those pesky violent students. I know whenever students go up against the country’s military, the military gets gunned down like some Blair Mountain Miners. Hundreds of them die, and of course they have to shoot some of the students, but they always come out the worst of it. It’s always the way, it’s just sad that it had to happen in China of all places.

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Those pesky violent students.

Students can be as violent as anyone else, given the opportunity.

Once you start flinging molotovs, you’re in the fight. I get liberals cheering at Their Team when a radical kills a squad of police officers from The Evil County.

I find it curious that they can’t see the connection between Chinese counter-revolutionaries (yay!) and the Vietcong resisting US/French occupation (boo!) with the same tactics.

But the idea that holding a student ID card automatically makes you a pacifist? Come on.

Hundreds of them die, and of course they have to shoot some of the students, but they always come out the worst of it.

Lightly armed amateur rioters engaging a bunch of blooded veteran soldiers are going to have a bad time.

But this myth of Tianamen as a peaceful protest that Deng flattened with tanks is as ahistorical as it is choked with Bircher propaganda.

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the Vietcong resisting US/French occupation (boo!)

It’s fucking wild to me that you think the people you’re talking to here supported the US in the Vietnam War. Absolutely fucking wild.

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who started the violence? who was the first death?

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