Meme aside, tomorrow is June 4th, or the Reddit Memorial Day™ for the Tiananmen Square ‘massacre’. I thought I might give a heads up for people who are not feeling like stepping into radio active waste tomorrow.

  • Absolute@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    As if I needed any more reason to not go on reddit.

    The western mythology around this event is just mind boggling. Few things get liberals foaming at the mouth more quickly when you push back on the state dept narrative.

    The prop piece Reuters published the other day was brutal. Like reading a middle schooler’s report on the event. I guess they just don’t even have to try anymore.

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      1 year ago

      It’s insane how all the brutal photos of the incident are all of the soldiers rather than the students that liberals cry about.

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        1 year ago

        It’s insane and it’s also just infuriating how dishonest and manipulative the propaganda is.

        It also says something about the pervasive white supremacy and chauvinism in the west that this one unfortunate event is probably the single most well known in thousands of years of Chinese history to anglos