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heartbreaking

When Communists hold power, too often we still let libs get away with their petty obstructions and wrecking.

  • HarryLime [any]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    Many of the Tienanmen protesters were opposed to Deng’s market reforms, and some wanted to return to the Cultural Revolution.

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      8 months ago

      I remember the tank man photograph in school text books and posters and boomer memes. Finding out a video exists is like the political version of finding out Santa Clause isn’t real.

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        8 months ago

        If you go to some of the uploads of it on Youtube, the comments are filled with people experiencing the mandela effect like “Whaaaaaa?? I could have sworn I saw this decades ago and he died? Is this edited??”

        Turns out that repeating a lie often enough really does make it true

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    8 months ago

    Libs: LOL, China tells the people nothing happened at Tiananmen Square.

    “Well, what did happen at Tiananmen Square?”

    Libs: Well, they killed people, I think? And there was something about tanks? A protest about… something?