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I’m finding it harder and harder to believe that someone can be this stupid unintentionally.

“Tiny Man Square” LMAO…. The coward won’t even say it.

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[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 63 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Let's be clear: giving Tiananmen Square a juvenile nickname is a propaganda strategy to make people who disagree with him feel equally stupid and juvenile. Davel's entire spiel is, top to bottom, hypocrisy, as he'll happily weaponize whatever propaganda techniques he can use while mocking others for falling for it, completely oblivious that his body is 72% Kool-Aid at this point.

The irony of his rant about uncomfortable truths will likely be forever lost on him.

[–] Rhoeri@piefed.world 22 points 4 months ago

Dudes a massive coward that can’t stand up to scrutiny in the slightest. He just spews his copypasta propaganda and then he bails. Only after reaching out to mods/admins to get people’s shit removed/banned.

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[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 49 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Dave complaining about censorship? Wild.

[–] Rhoeri@piefed.world 24 points 4 months ago

Right? It’s almost like he knows he’s both the joke and the punchline.

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[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 41 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"Tiny Man Square"? Who is this guy afraid of?

[–] imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That part reads as "the ignorant westerners are so uninformed and propagandized that they don't even know the name of the square" to me

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It reads like he's afraid to say the actual name.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 20 points 4 months ago

If he was afraid of censors he would avoid the topic entirely as common malapropisms like “Tiny Man Square” and “See See Pee” are almost certainly considered.

Most often these phrases are brought out to mock the person they’re replaying too. For example, before I knew that it wasn’t actually called the “Chinese Communist Party” or “CCP”, which is just what the American State Department calls them in order to make it easy to identify the allegiance of an author, I’d get a lot of “is the see see pee in the room with you now?” replies.

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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 32 points 4 months ago (3 children)
[–] Rhoeri@piefed.world 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Some stupid shit they have to make up so they feel like they’re the good guys and everyone else are the bad guys.

Apparently we burn kittens?

[–] Comrade_Spood@quokk.au 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Other way around. He's accusing us of accusing them of (metaphorically) burning kittens so we can feel good about ourselves on some artificial high ground

[–] Rhoeri@piefed.world 19 points 4 months ago

Either way, it’s convoluted bullshit to make them appear either the victor or the victim. And it’s pathetic.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you read your theory, you would be aware that kittens are sustainable fuel and burning them is based.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago

I can't wait for the new AI datacenters to be powered by orphan crushing machines

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

It's a reference that I imagine political people under 35 won't catch without doing a search online.

A reference:

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2014/12/21/the-anti-kitten-burning-coalition-again/

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Rooting for and defending dictators also are an endorphin hit.

Source: Talked to ex-tankies, know some current dictator fans (usually right-leaning).

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Have they tried rooting for their local sports team who hasn't won a game in years? Its basically the same thing. 

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[–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 21 points 4 months ago

He's the proud 1%er who knows what really happened in tiny man square! Trust him, bro'!

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's really the only reaction i can give to his whole rant.

[–] Rhoeri@piefed.world 7 points 4 months ago

Dude is fucked in the head.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 4 months ago

Man, the sheer logic leap about feel good endorphins being equivalent to a drug hit. So are you doing drugs when you post things in support of China? Or anything else you feel you have the moral highground on?

Complete nonsense. Once again they exempt themselves from their own "logic".

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 15 points 4 months ago

Mods will be looking for excuses

That's how you, a bad moderator, operate.

That isn't how the majority of actually competent moderators do shit.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

I'm pretty sure that video I watched a while back with all the bodies was a good indicator of what happened in tankie heaven.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

IIRC the western view is inaccurate, in that we typically figure "authorities mercilessly crushed dissent" and the reality is more like "local authorities were swayed by the dissent and nearly turned against the government, so the government sent the goddamn army to crush those authorities too."

But the one-party state declares itself the only representation of the people's will, so obviously any popular defiance is a contradiction.

Yup. To make an American parallel, imagine if cops suddenly joined in on left wing anti-Trump protests… And then in response, Trump rolled tanks in and crushed both protesters and cops.

The message behind Tiananmen Square wasn’t for the protestors, because they already knew what was at stake. The message was for the authorities who may have been considering doing similar things. Stay in line and support the administration; the nail that sticks out gets hammered down.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

“local authorities were swayed by the dissent and nearly turned against the government, so the government sent the goddamn army to crush those authorities too.”

It's an ancient tankie tradition, after all. Hell, it doesn't get more traditional than where you get the name from.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 months ago

Why is it always the brainwashed that can't stop whining about brainwashing and how THEY sound the cure?

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