They'll say "Yes, anyone who disagrees with you is a tankie" sarcastically as if we didn't have a legitimate reason for calling them tankies, while we're perfectly capable of disagreeing with people who aren't tankies without calling them tankies.

But then suddenly whenever someone disagrees with them they go all-out "liberal fascist zionist scum!", disregarding all context and nuance and with basically no support for those labels...

Strange... almost like the "every accusation is a confession" applies to extremist hypocrites on both sides of the political spectrum... weird...

Tanks don't kill people. Agents of the state do!

Sorry, I was busy jorkin it to photos of tanks on Wikipedia, and lost track of time 😔

It's kind of eerie... like the calm before a storm...

Twelve hours from now we're all going to be bombarded by the same two accounts hurling insults and accusations without any substance, and never actually making a coherent point...

Not a Tankie, but they would point out there was no actual massacre and that it was relatively peaceful in the square itself. Of course there were thousands that died around the square at different times leading up to it.

Then they would say these were agitators paid or organized by western sources like the CIA to cause problems. Not dissatisfied citizens who were snuffed out by the ruling party.

You see the Chinese government was nothing more than murderous assholes all along and have the blood of tens of millions of their citizens on their hands and they are not afraid to lock up and disappear anyone who brings this up.

The Tiananmen Square massacre never happened, and that's why they're not allowed to talk about it. Makes perfect sense, doesn't it?

Something something anglosphere and other braindead mutterings

Tankies will say the inevitable and predictable line about how we all just believe western propaganda, and that this never happened. And the propaganda that they listen to is always correct about China. It's how they always spin this.

I'd love to hear cowbee bullshit spin this one.

"no students were harmed. The armed rioters outside the square were killed in combat that they initiated and refused to back down from. They had to be stopped because they were destroying the city and harming the citizens.

Ofc the Chinese government won't let people celebrate citizen murdering, capitalist funded, armed rioters"

I'm pretty sure they'd say exactly that.

37 hour hunger strike? With my budget that’s called a Wednesday.

Tankies won't respond. In celebration of a canon event, federal netizens were notified by Xi-Think-Link that they have been given the day off work.

Have you ever seen an interview with one of the “dead students”? No? Thought not…