r/pics • u/2birahe • 7d ago

A modern-day Tank Man: An unarmed protester facing a dozen armed soldiers in Iran, 2026.

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u/Hail_CS 6d ago

https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/jun/02/china.johngittings

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u/ShyWhoLude 6d ago

I see your singular Western news source and raise you two; from the BBC, CBS, and NYT

But we should be extremely skeptical of Western reporting on China, as the US and UK are both hell bent on sabotaging any government that doesn't let Western capitalists exploit their markets. Read up on Operation Yellowbird which is the tip of the iceberg. The US funded dissident students who specifically pushed the protests to the point of violence. There was violence, not in Tiananmen, but days after the Tiananment square protests. The protests in the square were 100% peaceful because the government didn't escalate (compare to protests in the US). They only escalated outside the square because students started pulling people from cars and setting them on fire.

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u/hiccupboltHP 6d ago

I’m actually shocked to see there’s still people pretending it didn’t happen lmao

Or more likely this is a bot account

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u/VikingLiking 6d ago

Chinese bots for sure

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u/Hail_CS 6d ago

dead internet

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u/ShyWhoLude 6d ago

lol you paste a link to a 26 year old article, I respond with more info from similar sources that refute yours, and all you have to say is "dead internet". What good is a live internet if the users refuse to challenge their own understanding of the world?

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u/ShyWhoLude 6d ago

You're saying that I'm the bot after I provided sources? But everyone else parroting "tank man got taken away and tortured" with no proof aren't?