• Thief_of_Crows@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    Tianenmen square is mostly just US propaganda. More than half of those who died that day were soldiers, and the rest were a striking union they were fighting. The tank man photo itself is propaganda, since the tank was literally leaving TS at the time. If a foreign country makes up lies about you, shouldn’t you do your best to shut them down? Because according to US media, China murdered a shit ton of peaceful students that day, which is factually incorrect. Literally nobody died inside TS.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah, sure

      I can hit you with even more gruesome photos, but probably shouldn’t post gore in a random thread.

      only a few hundred died, generally scattered around the areas and did include soldiers, but that’s a huge fucking number. And ultimately my point is around china’s iron fist information control of that whole month.

      There’s always someone saying “it wasn’t really a thing”, but being so blind to the fact that hundreds of people dying is very much a thing.

      Also you didn’t address the two main topics I raised in my comment. This isn’t just about tienamen square but it’s telling that you jumped to that

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        10 months ago

        China was putting down a violent strike. Afaik, the workers started the violence. Which is not to say I at all support China’s response,but it’s not at all what US media claimed. The only guns being used were by the workers, for one thing. I commented on TS because that’s the part I knew most about, I’m not going to spend an hour typing up a detailed response to everything people write.