Reminder that Donald Trump admires the Tiananmen Square massacre and told Playboy all about it in an interview right after it happened
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He’s lucky it isn’t an Israeli tank, else he would have gotten run over.
Guess Feng Zhang just dropped his legs on the floor because he didn't want them.
Why did you cut off the part where he climbs up the tank and starts yelling at the tank driver?
Why is the clip zoomed in to not show that the tank is driving away from the square?
there are multiple versions of the clip and the associated lore floating around and if you don't spend enough time with what happened at the time you can easily be convinced of a variety of viewpoints
The cut off clip is meant to imply a lot of things which did not happen.
Occam's razor, you're on the Internet, bad crops are practically a meme. Personally, I distinctly remember watching the entire uncropped video multiple times throughout grade school and high school in the US
Americans (in 1775): Declares war with one of the most powerful empires in history over taxes
The French: Decapitates the upper classes due to hoarding wealth and creating class imbalance
Haitians: Fights against their former masters in the name of freedom and the end of slavery
The French (again): Fights back against one of the most cruel regimes in history to free their occupied homeland from Nazi rule
Americans (now): "Oh I hope that if the message on my sign is passive aggressive enough the fascists will leave the government out of shame."
The Boston Tea party got started because of a tax cut from the British Empire. It was a whole different bunch declaring war than what people are lead to believe.
Yeah, you need the wealthy with time and resources to be on your side or else you are just the peasants revolting which they all already think we are.
No, you need crime. The tax cut would have affected the tea smuggling profits.
Yeah. The smugglers were making bank though.
Its kinda the rule that the government is filled with old mafia once they realize they can make a lot of money being the government.
So I guess in this case we need the companies that are acting as mafia to want the change. Which brings us back to the wealthy.
It's not that bad for white people yet
gro-cer-ies…such a strange and mythical word
Some people call it food.
You have titled this as though nobody has ever seen it before.
I titled it to poke at 'murica for their inaction against their dictatorial regime because it is affecting my family and my country.
That's a deep cut, and I missed it.
I'm sorry that my government is making a mess for you and yours. But please don't think that there is a lack of action. There have been basically nonstop (very liberal and mostly toothless) protests since before the election even, but the news refuses to report on them. Furthermore, there is a LOT going on from folks who would rather not advertise how they are resisting.
A resistance to a fascist government cannot, by it's nature, be public facing, so you'll never know everything that people are sacrificing and doing every day. But they are. We are.
Tankies hate this one weird trick
It's really echoey in here today.e
Oh my God that tank was going out of its way too run that guy over! ~/s~
I saw the full video, he eventually climbs up the tank and then is forcefully taken away. He never gets run over.
*taken away by other protesters, not the army, to be clear
He was clearly outside of the crosswalk.
The tanks were lEAviNg ThE sQuaRe!
Thanks, IE6!