• toppy@lemy.lol
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    10 hours ago

    It is photoshopped. US americans don’t have guts to directly confront their government.

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    10 hours ago

    Unrealistic. If someone stood in front of an ICE car like this they would immediately get shot.

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    19 hours ago

    AI generated slop, ICE would not have stopped, ICE would have ran her over and told you to ignore your lying eyes. Though it certainly puts tank man in perspective, it wasn’t just tank man, it was those driving and commanding that tank who still had enough shame to stop and not trample them.

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      Do you actually know what happened at Tiananmen Square?

      Tank man was the day after. The night before, they turned a massive student protest into a slurry that they pushed into the sewers. There was no shame.

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        You seem to think I’m trying to justify the Tiananmen Square when I’m just putting one particular incident in perspective to how ICE usually acts. Your gross oversimplifcations seem to want to act like whataboutism to how much worse the Tiananmen Square by portraying it into a caricature of “a massive student protest into a slurry that they pushed into the sewers”.

        It got pretty bad, a lot worse than any particular ICE incident up to date, but in a lot of ways it was served to the people just like ICE is being served up. People in the US should really inform themselves better with nuance, because the nuance is that it’s far closer to how ICE is acting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre#Military_action

        This is only a year into Trump’s second term and it’s already this bad. Just look at how long it took Hitler. I’m one of the people that follow several China youtubers, who supports how they can be an outlet for criticism that could not be made any other way in China, but I’ve gotta say, it has been revealing how much they are willing to ignore what is happening in the US and how illegal the operation against Venezuela was to the point that I now ask how much their bias is influencing them taking about outliers as if they were representative of the whole. The standard you compare against matters.

        There were tanks that mowed down people in Tiananmen Square Massacre, but in the infamous particular photo that made Tank Man famous, it really does characterize the restraint of that particular commander and/or driver from their shame, specially because others in the same massacre didn’t. It’s used to illustrate what difference one instance of opposition can make, but it’s also inherently only possible because that tank chose not to make that guy an statistic. The thing is, you are much more likely to get someone in the military to doubt themselves when facing its from an army that made up of the general geographic group of your peers than you are from one specially made to include the most racist, narcissistic, and power-tripping members of it. That’s why soldiers get a lot of the post traumatic stress disorder than some of these assholes never will (and neither do I think Jonathan Ross was suffering from it).

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          You seem to think I’m trying to justify the Tiananmen Square

          I did no such thing. I was just pointing out that the “restraint” by the tank drivers the following day is not at all representative of the actual massacre

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    19 hours ago

    All of the ICE vehicles I’ve seen are unmarked, with non-uniformed masked men jumping out of them and attacking people or their vehicles. Maybe 10 years ago, a Florida Man shot a black kid for wearing a hoodie, and got off on “stand your ground laws”. Apparentlly, MAGA thinks “if they could be ICE, give them all your money and vehicles” or you, as domestic terrorist scum, deserve to get killed.

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    21 hours ago

    I made this same comparison a few days ago and got down voted to hell for it. Glad I’m not the only one that sees it

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    8 hours ago

    litteraly happened in iran and nobody cared, but you need ia to fantazize your own fake martyr

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          19 hours ago

          Eye witness account plus video

          Pretty famously, he climbed directly up on the tank and chewed out the driver, then got back down and continued to block the tank. Others in the crowd pulled him away back down the street. The tank didn’t try to run him over, he was never reported captured, and as far as we’re aware he’s alive to this day.

          Imagine an American climbing onto the hood of an ICE van or stubbornly maneuvering in front of a vehicle.

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            I’m old enough to remember the footage being on live and the hope that this action brought to the world.

            Sadly a few weeks later tanks rolled over everything on Tianmen Square flattening bikes and human bodies alike.

            ICE is shit and everybody involved needs to rot in jail but so far they have not flattened anything with a tank. Given the chance they no doubt will murder people at the scale it happened on Tianmen Square.

            Comparing wannabe mass murderers (ICE) to accomplished mass murderers (CCP) doesn’t really help painting the wannabes as bad as they are.

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              Theres no images of human bodies crushed by tanks in tiananmen square. Theres some who were shot on their bikes, in the surrounding streets, probably by police.

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        The fact that I trust a Chinese tank driver “more”, doesn’t mean I trust a Chinese tank driver.

        It would have been better formed if I said “I distrust a Chinese tank driver less than an ICE agent-”

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          No, the premise is stupid. Like sticking your left hand in a jar of deadly scorpion s and your right hand in a jar of deadly centipede and stating you like the stinging in your left hand better.

          I’m old enough to remember the footage being on live and the hope that this action brought to the world.

          Sadly a few weeks later tanks rolled over everything on Tianmen Square flattening bikes and human bodies alike.

          ICE is shit and everybody involved needs to rot in jail but so far they have not flattened anything with a tank. Given the chance they no doubt will murder people at the scale it happened on Tianmen Square.

          Comparing wannabe mass murderers (ICE) to accomplished mass murderers (CCP) doesn’t really help painting the wannabes as bad as they are.

          But you know what? I’m just going to join the majority of people that have already set this tankie instance on block. so you and your tankie friends, most of whom are some quarter-assed LLM bot anyway, can knock yourselves out in your little tankie echo chamber. Cheers

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            This is the most pretentious, my-shit-doesn’t-stink reply I’ve seen outside of an .ml instance lol

            Touch grass.

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            What are you on about, there have been many instances where ICE drove over people. They have shot people.

            There hasn’t been a Tiananman square like massacre, but the Chinese were military forced to to slaughter countrymen or be shot themselves. They made the wrong choice, killing civilians. ICE is people willingly joining to do unlawful things to innocent civilians, SS style. Murder, concentration camps, torture, starvation, etc.

            The one is someone with a gun to their head, making the wrong choice. The other is making the wrong choice to willingly be the fucking gun.

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        No. The Tianmen Square video is of tank man who made a tank stop instead of running him over. The protests were over a previous (1-3 nights before) protest or, according to Chinese Government, riot where protesters were killed. Deaths did not happen after tankman.

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        I wouldn’t trust a single ICE or DHS agent to do the right thing in this situation. We have proof of at least one Chinese tank crew doing so.

        How do you define “better”?

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    So according to the tankie narrative, what this woman is really doing is telling them to go back and do their jobs