Edit : Holy Shit, i Didn’t Realized this post upvoted so quickly in just a single day, 90+ upvotes, New Record For me I guess…
China does not exist. It collapsed in 2022. Anyone stating otherwise is a shill
Yeah but they BULLDOZED ten million STUDENTS and flushed the human squash through THE drain
I have never understood the obsession with Tankman by liberals. If this was most western countries, they’d have just driven over the guy. We have seen police do exactly that in protest after protest.
Even before I saw the full clip and was a deluded socdem, I always saw it as a testament to the patience and consideration of the PLA.
What’s especially fucked up is that there is an actual real life version of events like this that did happen in a “Western” “country”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Corrie
Rachel Corrie was protesting the destruction of Palestinian homes by the Zionist forces in Rafah, and stood in front of a bulldozer that was attempting to flatten a house. The driver didn’t stop, and drove over her, crushing and killing her.
Yet we don’t see the internet commemorating her death every year and condemning the people who actually did it. Shameful.
If this was most western countries, they’d have just driven over the guy.
I always thought it was implied that he was ran over or something. The picture really doesn’t mean anything otherwise, and the US education system really doesn’t try to explain any further than “this one guy standing in front of 3 tanks? he was like totally massacred bro, trust me”.
worst part is tank man was trying to get the tanks to go back to the plaza not trying to stop them going in. He wanted the terrorist dealt with, his OUR hero not theirs.
The full footage shows that the tanks were leaving the square, not entering. They stand in front of them, the driver tries to get around him, they climb on top and chat with the driver for a bit, then bystanders come and walk them away. They have never been identified, their motives never ascertained. It was a divisive time, they could have been stopping them for liberal anti-CPC reasons, they could have been a loyalist counter-protestor insisting they go back to remain in the square, they could have had undiagnosed mental illness and be having a breakdown at really inopportune time, etc
Honestly, if they were ever going to color overthrow China that was the time, when China was still rock bottom poor and socialism worldwide was in a rapid downward turn. A color revolution in China now is about as likely as the US having civil war 2 so it’s understandable why liberals would still be seething about it all these years later.
it genuinely makes me happy to know how mad liberals are that it didn’t work lol. like you can hear it in how they talk about it. they fucking hate that China is powerful now
