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this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2025
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Wait until the tankies come in here and tell you this guy was trying to stop them from leaving and asking them to go back and detain more immigrants while also claiming there were no immigrants there anyways
If you are talking about tank man i can just show you you can clearly see tiananmen square in the background and the direction the tanks are going and where the guy is pointing.
can't wait for that one guy from .ml to show up and argue that Tiananmen Square was a peaceful protest and post links claiming that there were no deaths recorded there.
There were no deaths recorded there though. Here is what a reporter of the washington post who was in Beijing at the time says about that.
You dont need to make a strawman of what mls believe, you can just quote the wikipedia and ignore the claims by countries that have a reason to fabricate hostile evidence. If you want to go further, look at testimonies by witnesses that corroborate the side opposed to where they currently live.
Its also important to try to understand why the chinese feel the issue is contentious and the various perspectives, as opposed to letting the other side tell you how the chinese feel and why.
10 men!
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The second image is a bit on the nose IMO. The comparison was clear enough from the original. And yeah maybe some people need it pointed out to them, but I suspect those people are also the ones who will reject the idea regardless.
i didn't even see the guy in the first picture until i looked at the second and realized what i should be looking for
Huh, fair enough.
There are probably some out there, especially younger people or those who have only recently started educating themselves, who simply haven't seen the second image before.
not to mention the amount of people who dont know its a still of a video with tiananmen square in the background.
Maybe, but I'd say if they don't know Tank Man, seeing it in this context without further explanation is still unhelpful. Because they're likely to think it's a photo taken in America today.
I'm just thinking about the Venn diagram of people who know who George Takei is, are of the right kind of mind that they would actually see the link between the two images, but have not seen the second image.
Probably not a huge overlap but then again adding it for even just a few doesn't do any harm.
He shares it, people who follow him share it with people they know, which may include some fringe magas, and maybe even some full-blown magats.
One person stopping a vehicle, the other judging the people in the vehicle like a disappointed parent.
"Do your mothers know what you're doing?"
"Would your Grandmother be happy with you right now?"
"You aren't being the neighbor that Fred Rogers knew you could be!"
I'm always amazed at how powerful that single sentence is to almost all Americans.
