I remember this image was at the top of the controversial sort.
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Laughably false image. The zionist entity tank would NOT stop. The American tank would NOT stop. The British tank would NOT stop. The German tank would NOT stop.
And nearly all of them would say the protestor was a terrorist and justify it would say they were antisemitic and deserved it, would slander their character in death and use it to justify a crackdown on speech because they want to prevent more people acting like that.
Would stop, but only to avoid creating a martyr.
The zionist entity tank would NOT stop. The American tank would NOT stop. The British tank would NOT stop. The German tank would NOT stop.
The problem is that Westerners were and are to assume that Tank Man got squished, despite the photographic & video evidence to the contrary. It was an exemplary work of propaganda, and I’m pretty sure most people ate that onion whole.
Sneaky communists, always carrying out their atrocities off screen
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That's what I hate about so many western people who even in beginning to question the propaganda of today repeat yesterday's thoughtlessly. How they never stopping to consider how in the west they murder people all the time openly. They kneel on people's necks, they choke them out, they do no-knocks and shoot people dead. Leadership of police accountability organizations like BLM wind up dying in statistically suspicious numbers in traffic accidents and similar. They assassinate MLK and Fred Hampton, they bomb residential buildings, they shoot unarmed college students. Yet a picture of a tank refusing to run over a guy is not only proof of how evil and callous a certain other country was in 1989 but a reason to continue repeating the image. An image motif pushed deliberately by the spy agencies and military psyops and dishonest genocide abetting press of the countries in the image so that we don't say adopt an image of American atrocities which don't end with the guy walking off but with them a splatter on the pavement or financially ruined and in jail. So that even in criticizing these countries, you uphold their narratives in the motif of the image you chose which is to slander another nation and helpfully deflect some people into thinking things like "at least we're not that other country yet, bad as we are, they're badder". Even in criticizing them you do their dirty work by using their tools, their narrative, their framing.
People not only don't know what's happening to them, they don't even know that they don't know.
Try to tell them and,
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anything referencing Tiananmen Square
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the tanks were leaving the square, is this guy blocking the tanks leaving?
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Personally I don't think this is an effective image as in the tankman incident this is presumably base on, the tankers showed far more restraint than the IOF is capable of, and the guy was able to climb on the tank and run away with no consequences: https://youtu.be/FaojdRThXbY
A better example maybe one of these incidents(out of many others) of US state forces running over protestors in the last couple of years:
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