GarbageShoot

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[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ironically enough, the site usually does encourage people to link to NYT with an archived version or something for exactly that reason.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I was literally referring to the Amicus curiae that screwed the man over, so yes my shorthand of "state capitalist institution" is a little more accurate, either way who gives a fuck,

Because "state capitalism" is a term that's kind of important for understanding political-economy and doesn't refer to liberal capitalist states.

everyone fell for it regardless

I think many of us do not have a relation to reactor content mills like pz0 and don't take positions on their dumb clickbait "news" stories.

which is why I linked to penguinz0 who had an outsized impact in popularizing the story

Which is why he shouldn't be rewarded with more engagement

I'm not making a value judgement on his dumbass pseudo-libertarian content

And yet, like most professions of neutrality, you're still tacitly supporting him by linking to him in the first place! His business model is engagement, what do you think this is?

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She, along with other ~~Assets~~ student leaders fled before the clash actually happened.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Chai Ling is great, there is a lot more from that interview where she just openly displays what an unhinged monster she is, like when she adds to that part that the students are stupid and unworthy of her sacrifice, which is why she plans to escape (and though she didn't leave quite as quickly as she seemed to plan, she did leave quickly enough that she wasn't around for when the "massacre" would have happened)

Oh! And it's also important to note that it was her interviews with western outlets following fleeing the conflict that produced the "tanks mulching corpses" story

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It would be "capitalist state institutions" and the thing you should learn is to not directly link that asshole's videos

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh yeah, near the bottom some dumbass claims people here think the same of Mao, Pol Pot, and Putin!!

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One of them is the Mother of Champions, whose whole superpower is based on rapidly producing litters of super-strong expendable children. The team was created not to be offensive per se, but

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (22 children)

If anyone wants a good example of this brainworm freshly-regurgitated by our .World friends: https://lemmy.world/comment/10437862

Tankies, famous for pretending Tank Man media exists only in the form of one picture. Also one of them says "Peking" for some fucking reason.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are some pretty gory pictures of the battle that happened in the surrounding streets.

Besides the PLA corpses, are there really gory pictures? I've seen a pretty large amount of documentation and, in the rare instances of something seeming to be a gory protestor death, there was no usable citation presented with it that would allow me to actually place the picture at that event (unlike, to pick an easy example, the wide-angle shots of the streets that invariably show a bunch of abandoned bikes rather than corpses). Maybe a military equipment person could tell, but I certainly couldn't.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

The charitable reading of this is that Biden is a demon who considers point-scoring with reactionaries to be a win. Is that correct?

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

That's okay, I'll still keep watching that garbage

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