this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2026
401 points (82.2% liked)
Memes
55626 readers
781 users here now
Rules:
- Be civil and nice.
- Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.
founded 7 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
We literally have the video of tankman climbing up the tank and not being flattened, it was even reported back in the day, but people downvoting you can't be bothered to google that
Bro literally had a conversation with the soldier in the tank.
He said "why are you leaving the square already? Turn this thing around and finish off those colour revolution assholes!"
I keep reading this but I never found the source. Is this actually true?
I was joking. Nobody knows what he said.
But it's a fact that the video was from June 5th, the day after the violence, and that the tanks were leaving the square.
I heard another version. According to that version, the man was a former soldier who recognized the tank model and wanted to know where was it built and who were inside it.
I think the downvotes are because the post implies that the Chinese did not kill anyone, when hundreds were murdered. What became of tank man is unknown, but it's clear he wasn't killed by one of those tanks.
I heard it was millions, and that evil communist xi xingping plans of doing it again and name it the scary communist leap forward after his favorite scary communist dictator mowz dong
It was thousands. Perhaps 10s of thousands. You don't care, why comment?
And Iran, they killed 40 thousand!
why stop there? maybe they were hundreds of thousands, even millions!
You don’t understand the scope. It was hundreds of thousands. It was hundreds of millions. Evil Chinese communism knows no bounds and will consume all. I will take all your social credit points now for myself, silly American
Are you being sarcastic?
Because, and anyone correct me if I'm wrong,
most people here know that what happened during the Tianenmen square insurrection was:
These insurrectionists went a lot further than the Usonian Jan 6th protest mostly known as the "Freedom Plaza massacre" where "peaceful protesters" entered the capitol building in order to "stop election fraud" where "perhaps 10s of thousands civilian lives were killed as US security opened fire at these peaceful protesters", because unlike CIA-backed insurrectionists, these "peaceful protesters" were ordered by their higher ups to leave immediately instead of being encouraged to block the US army from arriving at Capitol Hill or attack the US army for that matter.
I didn't know i was on a joke sub, I guess.
I think the numbers are a bit off - official Chinese figures were ~20 student protestors, ~20 police and army, and about 200 other protestors were killed.
Do you have a source for your estimate of deaths? 100+ is very ambiguous since it includes any number >100, which seems already beyond contention.
Probably the official CPC figure of 241 killed in total. Most of the serious estimates broadly agree - NSA said 180-500, and the Tiananmen Mothers organisation have identified 198 of the dead.
Since we're evidently reading the same Wikipedia article, I'll point out that those are among the lowest estimates on the page and the Beijing hospital record was 478 dead and 920 wounded.
But these are all very different numbers from what was commented.
Well if you're already reading a wiki article I'm not sure how you'd have trouble matching the source. As I said elsewhere they got the distribution wrong, but you're making it sound like you're just here to JAQ off.
IDK why you're trying to source someone else's comment for them, but if you read the comment and the wiki you would see that they are not in agreement.
This is why I asked for their source. Sorry if you find that offensive for some reason lol
Correct, as I said elsewhere they got the distribution wrong because they are working off memory, but it's not difficult to link the numbers - they mistook the police and army as having the same number of deaths as civilian protestors rather than student protestors, but the total roughly matches and there's only one source that makes that specific distinction between groups rather than a general guess at a total. I don't understand why you're so upset about being told the source after asking for the source.
So just to clarify, you think that:
1.) you can provide the correct source for another person's statement
2.) what you posted qualifies as a source even though you did not give one
3.) it's OK if the statement does not agree with the source
4.) you can justify your misattribution by cherry-picking a number that "roughly" agrees if you massage it
Bruh.
Yes? I'm confused, is there no subject you're familiar enough with to recognise sources?
Yes it does, it doesn't qualify as a reference, but luckily you're looking at the Wikipedia page so you can just click it instead.
Yes, people make mistakes, but luckily sometimes other people like me are around to correct them.
No, I can justify my attributionby the fact that there's only one (1) source that lists the dead by faction, the numbers just show how they misremembered the specifics of the source.
This isn't some complex chain of advanced logic, I really don't understand what you're having trouble with.
Well, it's true that this is very simple. I wanted the poster's source -- if there is one. Unless you're claiming to be them, you don't have that information.
But since you seem very interested, do you personally think the CCP death estimate you keep presenting is accurate?
You say the commenter above was wrong, but your tone suggests you still agree with them. Do you believe the rest of their narrative that student protestors were peacefully dispersed in song by the unarmed army choir?
Do you recognize that CPC has a conflict of interest in providing accurate information about this, and that they continue to censor information about it to this day?
OH what a surprise, it DOES turn out you were just here to JAQ off all along. You're as easy to see through as folahts' source is to find.
Don't you mean hundreds of thousands, you redfash tankie?
There is video of him being removed/taken away by others. He certainly was not crushed.