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The redditor "Tienanmen Square massacre" narrative is flat earther levels of crank shit and needs to be recognized as such. (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 months ago by Frank@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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This shit has seriously gone on too long. People who continue to cling to the "10,000 dead crushed by tanks hosed i to the gutter" bs are cranks. It's jews control the banks, chemtrails, the earth is flat, the moon isn't real level of crank shit and unless you're feeling very indulgent and someone is asking in good faith it can be dismissed as equally serious to that kind of crank shit.

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[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 72 points 5 months ago

Pretty much everything people believe about it isn't true, but nobody cares because it's aimed at bad country shrug-outta-hecks

I'm still shocked they actually admitted Saddam's shredder wasn't real.

[-] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 38 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The fact that most Americans just assume tank man got run over and killed even after seeing part of the video of it is what genuinely drives me insane. Like the rest of the video is readily available bro you can see him walk away

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 36 points 5 months ago

That baffles me, because even when I was a turbolib I realized the whole point was that one guy was holding up the tanks. If they had just run him over, why would they have stopped?

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 26 points 5 months ago

As a kid, I figured he singlehandedly stopped the tanks from doing something terrible.

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 14 points 5 months ago

Same lol, good thing I found Hexbear

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 31 points 5 months ago

Saddam's shredder?!?!?! I am too young to remember Saddam, please elaborate

[-] Huldra@hexbear.net 39 points 5 months ago

They said Saddam owned a woodchipper or big shredder that he would throw dissidents in to execute them and destroy the body.

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 31 points 5 months ago

The moment I realized r/LateStageCapitalism had been ruined was when someone was unironically defending the Iraq War by referring to Saddam's shredder. In the old days that person would've been quickly banned.