It's the dunk tank.
This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.
Rule 1: All posts must include links to the subject matter, and no identifying information should be redacted.
Rule 2: If your source is a reactionary website, please use archive.is instead of linking directly.
Rule 3: No sectarianism.
Rule 4: TERF/SWERFs Not Welcome
Rule 5: No ableism of any kind (that includes stuff like libt*rd)
Rule 6: Do not post fellow hexbears.
Rule 7: Do not individually target other instances' admins or moderators.
Rule 8: The subject of a post cannot be low hanging fruit, that is comments/posts made by a private person that have low amount of upvotes/likes/views. Comments/Posts made on other instances that are accessible from hexbear are an exception to this. Posts that do not meet this requirement can be posted to !shitreactionariessay@lemmygrad.ml
Rule 9: if you post ironic rage bait im going to make a personal visit to your house to make sure you never make this mistake again
"I hope this is not true forever but I can’t argue with you. My father is the artist, he turned 88 on Monday, so he has witnessed the rise and fall of most of the dictatorships of the 20th century. A neo-conservative of the 1960s, Andre believes that, while the CCP may not fall in his lifetime, that eventually it will crumble to the will of the people."
I’m still unable to wrap my head around why for something the west calls a “massacre,” they chose the specific event where no one fucking died. HE NEVER DIED. The column of tanks also weren’t hostile to the guy because they tried to fucking go around him, and they all stopped when they realized he kept blocking their way. They even had a casual conversation with each other before parting ways.
Fuck man this shit is annoying. That’s emblematic of democracy more than anything. In the US the soldier would’ve been applauded for running over the uppity whiny protestor for blocking the intersection. You’d think they’d choose more violence and death to show the “massacre” that went on in Tiananmen but it’s always just pictures of students standing around or marching and the tank man. But weirdly enough they never show the pictures of soldiers and the same students have camaraderie with each other because many of them didn’t want to overthrow anything.
It's not that no one died anywhere, but Tank Man didn't die and neither did anyone in the square itself. Some PLA troops, insurgent guerillas, and bystanders did die and, critically, some of the student leaders who were being used by western intelligence got on TV immediately after the chaos of the event to tell ridiculous stories like the tank-mulching thing. They tried to create an actual massacre and, when they failed to, they just said that one happened anyway.
The “specific event” I was referring to is the rank man, not the whole protest. But that’s what I mean. Whether it was students dying or soldiers dying, you rarely see pictures of that. It’s always the same stuff of the tanks or students standing around