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The same people who call Russias invasion of Ukraine a “power move for socialism”.
My question is: Are you really surprised?
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2026
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When did they say that?
They really do love the boot, don't they?
They're driving tanks through the same square where they massacred protestors. That's the point, that's the core part of why Tank Man is so influential, it's because a single unknown man stopped the show of authoritarian force.
You were acknowledging in the other posts you made off of these 2 threads that no one was actually massacred in the square. You know that. So why say that these tanks had just got done massacring protestors? You could pull attention to the part of the anti-China narrative that is true, that the same government to whom the tanks belong had been killing hundreds of protesters in the streets of Beijing at the same time.
There wasn't a massacre in the square itself in the sense of tanks running people into pulp, which again happened elsewhere. (it's NEAR the square, guys! totally different!) But there was death, and soldiers and police shooting at protestors and making an excessive and oppressive display of force.
Allow me to specify, when I refer to 'they' -- I refer to the government.
They’re driving tanks through the same square where they massacred protestors.
Means they are showing their force by driving military vehicles through the square where they previously massacred protestors. Massacre in the sense that a lot of protestors were killed.
I think this is a telling bingo square of how tankies operate. They know that Tiananmen Square was wrong, they know that student protestors were senselessly murdered and killed with military force -- BUT! They can argue that the location was elsewhere! That 9 people died instead of 10!
Is there actual evidence he was murdered? I mean I assume that's what happened but I'm just curious what's actually known about his fate if anything.
Nah, there's no evidence he was murdered. There's very little evidence about Tank Man's identity or what happened to him.
There are many theories as to who he was and what happened to him, but there's no evidence for any of them. Curiously, the CCP say that they don't have any records of the man, but it was also before the digital surveillance state that China is today.
I think it's fair to say that he was arrested, I mean, he interfered with the Chinese military after they slaughtered students. They're not going to let him walk free.
Well, only if they were able to identify him. It's possible he escaped.
Maybe!
No one really knows
I also assume everyone I see in a video of protests in the US eventually is murdered.
With how things are currently it wouldn't surprise me
Fair though.