Maybe not, but it's still pretty cool.

this account aligns with our current understanding.”

ALTHOUGH HE DID NOT ACTUALLY WITNESS ANY LARGE SCALE SHOOTINGS ON THE SQUARE PROPER, GALLO SAW MANY CASUALTIES BROUGHT INTO THE SQUARE AND DID NOT DOUBT THAT HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE IN BEIJING WERE KILLED BY THE ARMY ON JUNE 3 AND 4.

I guess we can agree that many people, probably hundreds, were killed.

The “massacre” narrative is that “big bad even Chinaman gunned down innocent children for no reason other than their undying love of democracy!@!@3!!”

That's not something I, or anyone else here has said. Stop inventing strawmen.

Are you aware that videos are made up of many images shown in sequence to give the illusion of motion?

That’s not the claim made by the propagandaist Jeff whatever the fuck. He claims he took a photograph, and was given awards based on his photograph.

Again, you know that videos are made up of many images, right?

And you know that more than one person recorded the moment, right?

Five photographers managed to capture the event on film.[3] On June 4, 2009, the fifth photographer released an image of the scene taken from ground level.[42]

In addition to the still photography, video footage of the scene was recorded and transmitted across the globe. Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) cameraman Willie Phua, CNN cameraman Jonathan Schaer and National Broadcasting Company (NBC) cameraman Tony Wasserman appear to be the only television cameramen who captured the scene.[49][50][51] The ABC correspondents Max Uechtritz and Peter Cave were the journalists reporting from the balcony.[52]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man

But it is the opinion of the US STATE DEPARTMENT that the “massacre” did not happen.

SUMMARY DURING A RECENT MEETING, A LATIN AMERICAN DIPLOMAT AND HIS WIFE PROVIDED POLOFF AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR MOVEMENTS ON JUNE 3-4 AND THEIR EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF EVENTS AT TIANANMEN SQUARE.

1. That's not the state department saying there was not massacre, it's an account provided by a Chilean diplomat.

ALTHOUGH HE DID NOT ACTUALLY WITNESS ANY LARGE SCALE SHOOTINGS ON THE SQUARE PROPER, GALLO SAW MANY CASUALTIES BROUGHT INTO THE SQUARE AND DID NOT DOUBT THAT HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE IN BEIJING WERE KILLED BY THE ARMY ON JUNE 3 AND 4.

2. They don't deny that a massacre occurred, they just say it didn't take place directly in the square

BODIES AND WOUNDED, HOWEVER, BEGAN TO ARRIVE AT THE RED CROSS STATION INDICATING THE EXTENT OF THE FIGHTING AND THE FACT THAT REAL BULLETS WERE BEING USED. AS THE MILITARY BEGAN TO REACH THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE SQUARE AND SHOTS WERE FIRED IN THE VICINITY OF THE RED CROSS STATION, MRS. GALLO DECIDED SHE WANTED TO LEAVE.

3. They still say there were many dead and wounded, although they don't give a number for either.

There is no ‘tank man’ photo, it’s a video,

Are you aware that videos are made up of many images shown in sequence to give the illusion of motion?

where more then 1000 partygoers where vaporized by advanced unknown alien technology.

You've got to be joking, right?

Also, I found an hilarious article from 2009

So no one here in this thread, and no one in the past 16 years. Sure. I guess obsessing over a 17 year old correction is good and healthy behavior, especially when you pretend that the statements from before the correction are still what everyone's saying.

So which one is it? Is it the Tiananmen Square massacre or the “something to the west somewhere massacre idk”?

Alright, so you really are just upset about the name.

It’s not me who talks about machine gun fire and tank shells with thousands of casualties.

Who else brought them up, and where? It's not in the article this post is about or any of the comments I've seen except yours.

where are the thousands and thousands of students massacred by relentless machine gun fire and tank shells?

INITIALLY NOT MUCH WAS HAPPENING IN THE SQUARE AS MOST OF THE FIGHTING WAS TAKING PLACE TO THE WEST

Presumably to the west, where most of the fighting was happening. I think there was something about the Liubukou junction (NSFW)?

But anyways, I don't think anyone is giving an actual number of dead beyond "hundreds or thousands". Asking about the "thousands and thousands of students" is already disingenuous. Bringing up "relentless machine gun fire and tank shells" even more so.

ALTHOUGH HE DID NOT ACTUALLY WITNESS ANY LARGE SCALE SHOOTINGS ON THE SQUARE PROPER, GALLO SAW MANY CASUALTIES BROUGHT INTO THE SQUARE AND DID NOT DOUBT THAT HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE IN BEIJING WERE KILLED BY THE ARMY ON JUNE 3 AND 4.

The part you seem to be ignoring. Are you just upset about the name implying people died in the square?

6. THE GALLOS POSITIONED THEMSELVES NEAR THE RED CROSS STATION AT THE FOOT OF THE STEPS TO THE MUSEUM. INITIALLY NOT MUCH WAS HAPPENING IN THE SQUARE AS MOST OF THE FIGHTING WAS TAKING PLACE TO THE WEST. BODIES AND WOUNDED, HOWEVER, BEGAN TO ARRIVE AT THE RED CROSS STATION INDICATING THE EXTENT OF THE FIGHTING AND THE FACT THAT REAL BULLETS WERE BEING USED.

11. LATER THE MORNING OF JUNE 4, GALLO AND HIS WIFE MADE THEIR WAY BACK TO THE SQUARE, AGAIN VIA THE ALLEY TO THE SOUTH OF THE MUSEUM OF THE REVOLUTION. HE SAID THAT FOR NO APPARENT REASON THAT ALLEY WAS THE ONLY ONE NOT SEALED OFF. FROM THE ALLEY THEY SAW TROOPS CLEARING THE SQUARE PILING UP LARGE PLASTIC BAGS AND DRAGGING THEM TO HELICOPTERS. THEY COULD NOT COMMENT ON WHETHER THE BAGS CONTAINED REFUSE OR BODIES. AT THE TIME, THEY SAID, THEY COULD NOT IMAGINE THE BAGS CONTAINED BODIES AND HAD ASSUMED IT WAS GARBAGE. ALTHOUGH HE DID NOT ACTUALLY WITNESS ANY LARGE SCALE SHOOTINGS ON THE SQUARE PROPER, GALLO SAW MANY CASUALTIES BROUGHT INTO THE SQUARE AND DID NOT DOUBT THAT HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE IN BEIJING WERE KILLED BY THE ARMY ON JUNE 3 AND 4.

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/89BEIJING18828_a.html

Said proof from the US embassy if anyone was curious.

I thought there might be some joke I wasn't getting related to what a "genuis" is, but I'm pretty sure it was just a spelling error.

You might be surprised, unless you exclusively play multiplayer games with anti-cheat.

What they don’t have is the store part - you can’t actually BUY games from those tools.

Heroic does let you buy games through the app, but it seems like it's just a browser that gives heroic an affiliate link when you make the purchase.

You got me curious about the origins of this. I'm pretty sure this image of Pooh and Tigger was made after the photo was taken, but it does seem to illustrate the point pretty well.