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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 34 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Since we have a lot of racist redditors coming over here catching bans for their historical ignorance about the June 4th incident, here are some resources:

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[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 days ago

Also most US police forces, as part of the militarization of police, have been effectively using tanks and APCs against protestors and civilians for at least 15 years now. Israel uses the Palestinian people as guinea pigs for most of this new population control tech, then the equipment that works gets sold to US police.

One other more recent example too of the US using tanks against its citizens was the waco standoff. The US used tanks against, then burned ~100 people alive.

[–] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 47 points 4 days ago (15 children)

Westerners aren’t helpless innocents whose minds are injected with atrocity propaganda, science fiction-style; they’re generally smug bourgeois proletarians who intelligently seek out as much racist propaganda as they can get their hands on. This is because it fundamentally makes them feel better about who they are and how they live. The psychic and material costs are rationally worth the benefits. -Roderic Day

All the libs in the comments really living up to the quote.

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The operative word being smug

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[–] Dialectical_Idealist@lemmygrad.ml 46 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Americans think they know about Tienanmen Square 1989 while themselves living in a police state / surveillance state.

No one talks about the Philadelphia police bombing (yes, a literal bombing) of a Black residential neighborhood in 1985.

No one talks about the police brutality against peaceful anti-Vietnam war groups in the 1960s/70s. Veterans who were drafted to fight an immoral war of aggression overseas were then beaten by the police for protesting that war. In 1970, the Ohio national guard opened fire on college students protesting at Kent State.

Eric Garner, Tamir Rice (12 years old), Daniel Shaver, Philando Castile, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Renee Good, Alex Pretti and far, far too many people have been murdered on camera. Millions around the world protested the routine extrajudicial killings of unarmed Americans. But police killings increased every year during the Biden administration and Trump continues to throw people in the back of unmarked vans.

Americans judge the PRC (and every socialist country) by their own retelling of its worst blunder in history; Americans judge the US by it's latest controversy while forgetting everything else.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 3 days ago

I've not seen one mention of Tlatelolco massacre which was propped up by the CIA through the mexican goverment.

[–] teagrrl@lemmy.ml 32 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I love whenever someone posts the "tank man" photo because the liberals always reveal themselves like roaches scattering across the room when a lightswitch is turned on. Mod ban hammer squish them all plz and thank you.

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[–] orc_princess@lemmy.ml 120 points 4 days ago (25 children)

We literally have the video of tankman climbing up the tank and not being flattened, it was even reported back in the day, but people downvoting you can't be bothered to google that

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