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[-] sagrotan@lemmy.world 106 points 1 year ago

The 1% how much taxes they pay

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 25 points 1 year ago

You're too generous for not making it a yes/no question

[-] Cabrio@lemmy.world 66 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can tell the poster is American because they blame the government involved for all of these except the US, where they blamed the CIA.

[-] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 36 points 1 year ago

You're right, as an American I knew the specific government agency that overthrew foreign governments. But I don't mean to imply that the U.S. government is blameless.

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[-] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

I mean the CIA is the us government

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[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 63 points 1 year ago

CBS NEWS: “We saw no bodies, injured people, ambulances or medical personnel — in short, nothing to even suggest, let alone prove, that a “massacre” had occurred in [Tiananmen Square]”

BBC NEWS: “I was one of the foreign journalists who witnessed the events that night. There was no massacre on Tiananmen Square”

NY TIMES: In June 13, 1989, NY Times reporter Nicholas Kristof – who was in Beijing at that time – wrote, “State television has even shown film of students marching peacefully away from the [Tiananmen] square shortly after dawn as proof that they [protesters] were not slaughtered.” In that article, he also debunked an unidentified student protester who had claimed in a sensational article that Chinese soldiers with machine guns simply mowed down peaceful protesters in Tiananmen Square.

REUTERS: Graham Earnshaw was in the Tiananmen Square on the night of June 3. He didn’t leave the square until the morning of June 4th. He wrote in his memoir that the military came, negotiated with the students and made everyone (including himself) leave peacefully; and that nobody died in the square.

200-300 people died in clashes in various parts of Beijing, around June 4 — and about half of those who died were soldiers and cops..

A Wikileaks cable from the US Embassy in Beijing (sent in July 1989) also reveals the eyewitness accounts of a Latin American diplomat and his wife: “They were able to enter and leave the [Tiananmen] square several times and were not harassed by troops. Remaining with students … until the final withdrawal, the diplomat said there were no mass shootings in the square or the monument.”

Numerous military buses, trucks, armored vehicles, and tanks being burned by the “peaceful” protesters. Sometimes the soldiers were allowed to escape, and sometimes they were brutally killed by the protesters. Numerous protesters were armed with Molotov cocktails and even guns.

Wall Street Journal: In an article from June 5, 1989, the Wall Street Journal described some of this violence: “Dozens of soldiers were pulled from trucks, severely beaten and left for dead. At an intersection west of the square, the body of a young soldier, who had been beaten to death, was stripped naked and hung from the side of a bus.”

The official report of the Chinese government from 1989 (translated here) shows that more than 1000 military and police vehicles were burned by rioters. And 200+ soldiers and policemen were murdered. Just imagine how much restraint the military and the police had shown.

Wait, how could the protesters kill so many soldiers? Because, until the very end, Chinese soldiers were unarmed. Most of the times, they didn’t even have helmets or batons.

What exactly happened in Beijing in 1989 that lead to this bloody affair?

The answer lies with two key figures: General Secretary Hu Yaobang, and Ambassador James Lilley.

Hu Yaobang was a member of the communist party of China and was one of the three major rightist-reformers that set China on the path its on today, the other two being Zhao Ziyang, and Deng Xiaoping respectively. Hu Yaobang as a reformer was also a spokesman for the intelligentsia and by the end of his life was well-beloved by the youth of China (we're talking below 30 here, folks) therefore when he passed away the youth of China organized public grieving events with the largest occurring in Beijing. This is to say if Hu didn't die from old age that year, none of this would've happened that year. This is to also say this event had nothing to do with "freedom" or "democracy" or whatever pigshit your favorite rush limburger propagandist spoon feeds you, it was a funeral service that was hijacked to unseat the Chinese government - which so coincidentally is a speciality of the agency the second person we're talking about.

Ambassador James Lilley, the son of an american expat oil executive for Standard Oil, was a CIA agent operating in east Asia from 1951 to 1981 with little officially known about him (I know for a fact he's fucked around Korea and Laos, so it's not a stretch to say he's likely been involved with every conflict that occured during his official career). In his "post" CIA career he's acted as a diplomatic liason to the provice of Taiwan, a teacher to future state department ghouls, and "helped" South Korea end its military dicatorship by helping the military win the election "democratically", and abruptly five days after the death of General Secretary Hu Yaobang James Lilley was appointed as the US Ambassador to China by also former CIA ghoul and president of the United States George H. W. Bush. What an astounding coincidence.

In an article from Vancouver Sun (17 Sep 1992) described the role of the CIA: “The Central Intelligence Agency had sources among [Tiananmen Square] protesters” … and “For months before [the protests], the CIA had been helping student activists form the anti-government movement.”

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 56 points 1 year ago

And just a reminder. In communist China, you can be a pain in the ass by obstructing tanks trying to exist a parade, argue with the commander, then get rushed away by other normal people going "dude what the Hell's your problem"

In capitalist America if you step out of line by doing something as minor a exersizing your constitutional rights, you'll be maimed or murdered. Hell sometimes you'll get maimed and murdered because the schutzstaffel feel like it

[-] DBVegas@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago

Lmao was just about to say, one of these is not like the other.

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[-] No_Money_Just_Change@lemmy.ml 59 points 1 year ago

Don't ask OP about the use of prepositions

[-] Samsy@lemmy.ml 53 points 1 year ago

The US about indigenous Americans.

Oh wait, they made hundreds of movies about killing them.

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[-] andthenthreemore@startrek.website 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Australian's about their treatment of ~~aborigines~~ first nation Australians

The Irish about mother and baby homes.

China about Uyghurs

[-] zephyreks@programming.dev 33 points 1 year ago

Didn't a bunch of Muslim countries actually ask China about Uyghurs (and even visit Xinjiang) and they left unanimously content with the response?

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago

Yes. The only country worried about it is the same one that's actually killed millions of Muslims over the last 20 years

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[-] GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de 40 points 1 year ago

Never ask a Lemmy user where they've hidden the good posts.

[-] Erika2rsis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Was there a massacre in Tiananmen Square?"

—"No."

"Were people killed elsewhere in Beijing?"

—"...Ermh..."

"Ahem. I am asking you if people were killed in the area immediately surrounding Tiananmen Square, even if nobody was killed in the square itself."

—"The protesters in Tiananmen Square left after negotiations with the PLA. There was no bloodshed in Tiananmen Square."

"I understand that, but were people killed elsewhere in Beijing?"

—"Nowhere in Beijing were student protestors specifically targeted."

"Well, were non-students targeted, and were any students injured or killed without being targeted?"

—"Hey did you know that the Three Gorges Dam is the world's largest—"

"Gongchandang, my friend, I am begging you."

—"...Force may have been used when provoked by attacks."

"May force have also been used unprovoked? Could it have been that the protesters felt like they were provoked first, because you were sending tanks past the barricades that they'd put up?"

—"I mean... you know... uhh..."

"Gongchandang. Were you scared that the occupation of Beijing and the potential of a workers' revolt would threaten the survival of socialism in China, by presenting a still-socialist alternative to your rule, because societal division particularly among the less politically literate could be (and was) exploited by outside forces?"

—"OUR YOUTH ARE VULNERABLE TO IMPERIALIST PROPAGANDA, OK‽ ALSO, TANK MAN DIDN'T GET RUN OVER. SEE. HE WAS PULLED AWAY BY A PASSERBY. NOT RUN OVER."

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't know if I would have used Tiananmen Square.

The Uighur re-education cities seems far more fitting.

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[-] ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

One of these is not like the other

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[-] icepuncher69@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Canadian government about the canadian indian residential school system

The Iran government about Salman Rushdie

The Mexican government about Ayotzinapas 43

The British government about their museums

The German government about their car manufacturers.

The Indian government about Aasif Sultan

The Russian government about how much the war in Ukraine should have lasted.

And many more...

Do let me know btw if you know of anymore of this.

Edit:

Aded russia

[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 30 points 1 year ago

To be fair, Germans largely don't deny what happened. Being a holocaust denier can even get you into prison. IHMO that is how you should handle such matters.

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[-] Anonymousllama@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Never forget about the vicious emu war in Australia either, our shameful defeat https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 23 points 1 year ago

What do you mean don't ask the UK about African interment camps?

Our lovely Tory government spent most of last year proud of trying to deport asylum seekers to fucking Rwanda. Like it was some sort of vote winner.

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[-] Gray@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 year ago

How a person reacts to being asked about the version of these things most close to them is telling. If they get defensive and deny the event happened, I would hesitate to trust their opinion on other things. Clearly that person bases their opinions on what they want to be true rather than reality. That's the kind of person whose ideology would likely lead to another event to be ashamed of. If, on the other hand, they admit it was a horrible thing and agree that people should be educated on it and that steps should be taken to prevent it from ever happening again, then I'm more likely to take their opinion seriously and believe that they can be part of the conversations we need to happen to create a better world.

[-] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

imagine believing tiananmen square is in any way comparable to the rest of this list. OP showing their whole ass

Death to America

[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

what do you mean 300 deaths isn't in any way comparable to thousands/millions of deaths during the Holocaust, Aremnian genocide, Bengal famine, Operation Condor or Japanese occupation?

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[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Ukrainian Government, OUN.

The Lithuanian Government, what happened to the Jews.

[-] supercriticalcheese@feddit.it 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Don't ask the French (Police) what happened in 17 October 1961

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_massacre_of_1961

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[-] lunaticneko@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago

In Thailand:

  • 6 October
  • Bloody May
  • The K--g Never Smiles
  • The Devil's Discus
  • "Unfortunately Some People Died"
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[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Don't forget Unit 731 for the imperial Japanese as well.

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[-] Astroturfed@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Don't ask the UK anything about their troubling history with black people or slavery unless it's to mention that they were one of the first countries to stop making black people property. They get really mad if you mention anything but that.

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[-] SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

Was about to comment "the germans about ww2" but then remembered that we are quite open about that time. Wouldn't have made much sense either as there would be no use in evem trying to hide it

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