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Meanwhile On Grad

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"There was never a massacre in Tiananmen Square, just around it! So it's just propaganda" ~Cowbee, prominent .ml tankie (infosec.pub)

submitted 3 months ago by cm0002@infosec.pub to c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

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[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 53 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

I really don't understand why they're so hung up on this point. The detail of where exactly protesters were murdered really is not very important to anyone else.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 24 points 3 months ago

Dogma is important to the religious.

[–] kibblebits@quokk.au 12 points 3 months ago

Bots usually focus on their programming.

[–] Tomassci@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

I think it's trying to ease you into accepting their dogma as fact by making you doubt the official story. Nothing more.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago

Same reason Certain Groups try and tell you "Aakkkkkshually most Jews died of disease, not gassing"

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

Money probably.