The settler-colonial hypothetical is more comparable to this atrocity than the Tiananmen Square massacre. Did you associate this with Tiananmen Square simply because of tanks?
The one where… Tank man blocked a convoy of tanks by standing there?
The one where he was pulled away by his friends afterwards?
It’s sort of challenging to hide a crushed body, and yet no journalists who were there the night of or the morning after reported anything. No photographic evidence is available.
You know they pulled those soldiers out and replaced them with soldiers from other regions who would, and did, right? Tiananmen Square is famous because of the massacre they committed after Tank Man.
A move from the CCP playbook.
This is more of a snapshot from what the US government would have done while settling land during manifest destiny if they had tanks.
Yeah it’s definitely more a hypothetical that can be imagined than it is a concrete reality that happened. Makes sense.
The settler-colonial hypothetical is more comparable to this atrocity than the Tiananmen Square massacre. Did you associate this with Tiananmen Square simply because of tanks?
Are you implying running over people with tanks is so common that we shouldn’t have associated the two?
What a weird thing to imply.
Between all the different conflicts since tanks were invented during WW1, it’s a more common occurrence than either of us know.
A key part of this phrase
American: “How can I make this about me?”
The one where… Tank man blocked a convoy of tanks by standing there?
The one where he was pulled away by his friends afterwards?
It’s sort of challenging to hide a crushed body, and yet no journalists who were there the night of or the morning after reported anything. No photographic evidence is available.
You know they pulled those soldiers out and replaced them with soldiers from other regions who would, and did, right? Tiananmen Square is famous because of the massacre they committed after Tank Man.
This is a photo of a human body crushed by tanks during the Tianamen Square massacre.
From here.
“No photographic evidence is available” you say?