While the stroad seem realistic, seeing a pedestrian carrying groceries doesn’t seem like americana iconography.
Blocking the road is not a valid form of protest! runs over pedestrian 🤠
Liberals will kick and scream about the fascism of Tianamen without stopping to ask why the Tank Driver stopped and even tried to drive around Tank Man without success.
The idea that an American civilian could survive getting that close to a military vehicle - that this kind of protest wouldn’t be used to justify his murder - is utterly alien to the Western brain.
So much of this image is pregnant with what Americans understand a US police officer would do to an unarmed protester. You’ll never see pictures of what happened next, because it flies in the face of the narrative.
Look up the Bonus Army, one of many protests that were brutally stomped on by the US military and police.
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Where is Tank Man now? I bet he’s a celebrated civil rights icon who freely walks the streets, right? I did see some reporting suggesting he was executed by firing squad but that can’t be right.
I did see some reporting suggesting he was executed by firing squad but that can’t be right.
The unsourced anecdote as a rebuttal to the live video footage is textbook western discourse. Don’t believe your lying eyes. I know a guy who knows a guy who knows the Real Secret Truth.
Nobody knows his identity or whereabouts. Nobody knows what happened to the soldiers who stopped either.
And thats probably intentionally so, to avoid martyrdom if hes dead. Or to protect his life if he’s not.
And that in itself is a very powerful part of the story.
It says Times Square. Manhattan is one of the walkable places in the US where carrying groceries is actually something you can see.
Good point.
the murican cops are all fucking disgusting violent fascist pigs.
Always was like that
Wasnt expecting to see the news dude at the end of . . Wow that was depressing.
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Tank Man survived, but not everyone was as lucky…
Official government announcements shortly after the event put the number who died at around 300
On 19 June, Beijing Party Secretary Li Ximing reported to the Politburo that the government’s confirmed death toll was 241, including 218 civilians (of which 36 were students), 10 PLA soldiers, and 13 People’s Armed Police, along with 7,000 wounded.[233][234] On 30 June, Mayor Chen Xitong said that the number of injured was around 6,000.
(Other estimates are much higher but still. And I don’t think this happened in the actual square, but rather in other places in Beijing)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre#Death_toll
Nobody denies that hundreds died all over Beijing that day, what’s called into question is using the “Tank Man” image out of context and telling everyone that he was run over. It’s a mythologizing of another country’s tragedy for the purpose of twisting events in the favor of Western interests.
Think about it another way: why is it that the US, BBC, etc readily and repeatedly report on a mythologized version of the events when they know that the truth is closer to what you say?
Good point.
I was just bringing context to the Tank Man/USA cops comparison. I didn’t think anyone was here defending things or spreading false info.
I like the image and messaging. I was thinking of calling them Cybercucks.
Swasticars?
Both. Not all swasticars are Cybercucks, but all Cubercucks are swasticars.
Some folks call them Deploreans.
Cybercuck is a better name for Elon than the truck, but Trump is the cuck in their relationship. Iunno.
Tesla would be screwed the first time they see a new sign. Machine Learning is about learning from the past but if you don’t have seen it before you might be screwed. But humans can actually think,. even stop and Google the new sign.
Somehow I knew that this would be controversial here. It’s a very funny meme though
It isn’t that controversial actually, seems pretty unified with only a couple people getting upset.
Idk there seems to be a big fight especially under this reply and more fights and upset around the comments. Maybe we set the bar for controversy differently.
Only a few people are actually pushing back, though. I wouldn’t call that controversy, for such a context that is usually far worse.
Oh I just counted everyone, no matter what side. Just the fact that there’s a fight going on. But it’s not as dramatic as it could’ve been
Not Times Square, should be Lafayette Square.
no that’s just silly
Beautiful
