• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 hours ago

    Just like in USA where nobody ever talks about the endless massacres and the media completely compliant. Those who speak up (eg. Manning) are disappeared into torture prisons.

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      7 hours ago

      The things you are talking about are public US record.

      Where does the Chinese government admit that they killed protesting students for wanting free elections in 1989?

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      18 hours ago

      Ain’t like it was in mid-2023. The tankies mostly stay off of .world anymore, thank the gods.

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        18 hours ago

        I left the night of the election, when literally all of lemmy was screaming that a vote for Harris was voting for genocide.

        Fucking morons.

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          18 hours ago

          Don’t worry, now that their favorite fascist is in power, they’re [checks notes]

          … complaining that Dems aren’t doing enough.

          I mean, Dems aren’t doing enough, but one would think that with a strategy like “ensure the Dems lose” one might have some sort of alternate method for dealing with the consequences of ‘success’.

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            17 hours ago

            You have utterly and completely misunderstood the goal all along.

            The goal was never improving things, or helping people.

            The real goal, the only goal that truly matters, is being able to feel superior behind their keyboards/phones , it’s knowing that everyone else is evil and stupid and weak, and if they only did exactly whatever crazy idea you had last night in your pot-fueled hallucinations, then everything would be perfect.

            But those in power can’t admit how wrong/evil/stupid they are, so everybody has to suffer.

            It’s exactly the same as southern baptists celebrating when a hurricane hits because it’s a clear sign God hates gays.

            Don’t get me wrong, the right is just cruel, vicious, evil, but the left is something almost worst: Hipsters.

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    17 hours ago

    It’s interesting that diplomatic messages said 10,000 were killed. The current Chinese government claims 241 died. Guess we’ll never know because they incinerated the APC paste and washed that down the drain.

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      16 hours ago

      The one message that basically said that his source heard from a good friend this happened?

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      17 hours ago

      The diplomatic messages sent from the British ambassador that was out of the country at the time?

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    15 hours ago

    There’s a lot to say about the protests then but honestly I have seen zero convincing evidence that tanks were used in this way. (Specifically, to “mash” a number of people into “paste” to later be “washed down the drain”.)

    Seems like an ahistorical lie pushed by propaganda, which would weaken any legitimate criticism you might have. Better to be accurate. But I’m open to any sources you might have.

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        14 hours ago

        Bad faith tankie apologists will deny anything and change the goalposts to whatever suits their purposes.

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        Of course not. I’m not saying nobody died or nothing happened… I’m just specifically disputing this claim I’ve heard that they ran over a large number of people and “washed them down the drain”. There’s a few photos such as your link that show an isolated person or two who had been run over, but nothing to the extent of the claims that they had “mashed” hundreds or thousands and “washed” them away.

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          Yes, ignore the stark reality of the Chinese government painted by the facts presented and instead focus on the hyperbole used to relate the digusting discontempt displayed by said facts. Surely this is a great way to engage with the truth of the matter.

          I hope you’re just painfully socially inept, and if that’s the case I sincerely apologize for this. But I suspect the hyperfocus on linguistic flair instead of the message is to intentionally mislead, so fuck off, tankie.