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This is a large album of images from the protests in Beijing in 1989. It gives the historical context for the events leading up to the "tank man" photo, and what happened after.
Warning: blood, gore, visible injuries, death
I uploaded this pictures in my old Xiaomi cloud account. It took almost 100 MB out of 5 GB free space. Other 4.9 GB is taken by Winnie the Pooh pictures and memes about Xi.
It's pretty amazing how they let that guy just harass a tank for several minutes and even climb on it, then just kinda let him be led away by bystanders.
For some reason growing up I think everyone assumed he got ran over or killed?
Because hundreds if not thousands of others were (others have already linked the graphic content).
Also, seeing him being led away in this footage is zero evidence that he survived his protest (unsurprisingly, there is no documentation of him or what the government did to him, but considering what they did to others like him, there is very little room to doubt that he didn't make it).
I'll play devil's advocate - the photographs don't seem to show evidence of thousands dying, or even hundreds necessarily. Dozens, absolutely. I doubt we'll ever know the actual numbers, though. Clearly something awful happened.
I’ll play devil’s advocate
Devil's one of the most powerful countries in the world, with people on this platform regularly repeating its propaganda, including in this thread.
Not sure the devil needs an advocate in this case.
Weird saying when you think about it that way.
There's a reason they only show a picture instead of the video.
Damn malicious AI image generators trying to tarnish the good name of the CCP. Smh. (/s)
This man is a fucking hero and deserves to be recognized as such.
Thanks for this. China keeps trying to wipe away this event by having any image deleted. It needs to be reposed and seen often.
There are diplomatic cables from Australia and Britain about the massacre that have been declassified. Shit was fucked and I don't know if the cables are common knowledge. That article is a great read.
AI?
What part looks AI at all?
Its really not about if this person thinks the pic is AI. They're using the term to muddy the waters around a historical fact because they deepthroat the ccp's dick.
Spez probably thought of the possibility of new angles of historic events being generated by AI, but lacked the technical knowledge to realize the technology is not to the point where it becomes indifferentiable.
Given the constant stream of CCP propaganda on Lemmy, I don't give random accounts the benefit of the doubt anymore.
I feel that.
Also a video at this link. The man moves to stay in front of the tank and even climbs on top of it. Eventually some folks on foot come and guide/force him out of the way.
