It didn’t used to be like this. Maybe take it up with the brave patriot who’s made it his sacred duty to repost ml memes to world, in the hopes of convincing the world admins to defederate from ml. https://lemmy.world/comment/15251475

And here you are living the meme.

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Breaks Community Rules

Welcome to Lemmy, where the rules are made up and the votes don’t matter.

Yeah you don’t appear to be banned, and I’m stumped, too. I’m grasping at straws here, but you might try checking your community & user blocks.

That community appears to be synced up with your instance?

• https://lemmy.world/c/crazyfuckingvideos?sort=New
• https://lemmy.ca/c/[email protected]?sort=New

O Canada

Reason: Spam or Abuse

You understand that you’re reporting me to myself, right?

Now I’m even less convinced that you actually did “a quick search on google.”

Reason: Mis or disinformation. These numbers are not correct.

Seeing how you found such evidence, feel free to provide it, or it didn’t happen.

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy. — J. Stalin

• Domenico Losurdo, 2008, Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend
• Grover Furr, 2014, Blood Lies: The Evidence that Every Accusation against Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union in Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands Is False

Please remove the body shaming comment, or we will remove the post.

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He says he wants free speech, but all he ever wanted was to replace the previous censorship and propaganda regime with his own.

That’s just a shorter version of the video I posted. And I don’t think the full footage ever aired on TV, because it’s around ten or twenty minutes long, mostly of him on top of the tank having a conversation with the crew.

You don’t know where they were going any more than I do. All we know is they were leaving the Square, and he was standing to stop them. We don’t know what conversation he had with the person in the tank (that part of the video was clipped out, presumably for brevity, because it goes on for several minutes).

He seems to be blocking their exiting the square, so it appears he wanted them to remain in it. I don’t know where the tanks were going. Perhaps back to base, perhaps somewhere else.

Edit to add: Back to base seems most likely, because this was on June 5th, the day after the protests had ended.

Doesn’t this rather ignore the fact that the day before the square was cleared of protestors, resulting in hundreds/thousands of deaths?

You can see people in the Square in this photo. No one died in the Square, though some people did die elsewhere in the downtown area, but not thousands.

Considering that Tank Man was never heard from again after the photo was taken, I don’t think you claim to understand his rationale for standing in front of the tank.

I can’t read his mind, no. But why else might he want to stop tanks from leaving?

We can only assume the reason due to the continued censorship of the photo inside China to this day.

It’s not censored inside China, though. Why do you think that it is, other than through our own Cold War propaganda that tells us so?

• Columbia Journalism Review: The Myth of Tiananmen
• The Tian’anmen Square ‘Massacre’: The West’s Most Persuasive, Most Pervasive Lie.
• 1989 Tian’anmen Square riots
• A Note on the Tiananmen Protests
• Images from Tiananmen 1989 the West never shows (NSFW / CW: violence and death)
• How psy-ops warriors fooled me about Tiananmen Square: a warning
• My Memories of Tiananmen Protest

Thanks, fixed.

Hah, the video must have been taken down last week. I figured it might eventually be.

Here’s another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq8zFLIftGk