Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed

• AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Thanks for completely ignoring my analysis of the sources of your “have you seen this, you filthy commie?” article. Kinda proving that you’re arguing from vibes here and not from material evidence.

  Has anyone spoken to him afterwards? No? Why’s that?

  Because he’s an anonymous dude only known from a low-res video that absolutely doesn’t allow for identification?

  Massacres outside the square don’t count

  You’re being purposefully obtuse. I explicitly said that the degree of repression was probably overboard and unnecessary, and a dark episode in Chinese history. You’re literally ignoring my reasonable points and arguing against strawmans, while refusing to do the bare minimum analysis of the sources of your material

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  • SpaceCadet@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I explicitly said that the degree of repression was probably overboard and unnecessary, and a dark episode in Chinese history.

    Yet, here you are, feeling the need to argue and bending over backwards to defend China over a single picture that I posted.

    You could just accept that using tanks against protestors is Very Bad™, like a normal fucking person. So yeah, of course I’m going to ridicule you, you daft cunt.

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    • AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      feeling the need to argue and bending over backwards to defend China

      Mate, you brought up the topic, not me. I initially started a conversation on precisely the picture you posted, because most people in the west see it out of context and believe that the protestor was trampled or arrested, instead of harmlessly walking away. You’re the one spreading anti-china propaganda and, when confronted with the reality of the specific picture you sent, you deflect and send an article with 100 pictures of the event.

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      • SpaceCadet@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        It is an iconic picture that is representative for the courage of the people protesting, as well as for the bloody repression that occurred. Tanks were used against protestors, and not even the Chinese government denies that hundreds of people lost their lives on that day.

        You feeling the need to “correct” me on tankman, just makes you an ackshually-ing neckbeard.

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