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::: spoiler Tianamen and the official narrative Reposted from elsewhere. wikileaks published a private diplomatic cable stating that no one was killed in the square itself, although a smaller number of people did die in clashes elsewhere in Beijing, consistent with China’s own official account. (Here’s a Telegraph article on the cables). a spanish film crew was in the square all night and filmed people peacefully leaving the square in the early morning, singing the Internationale, here’s footage of a Hong Kong news report that includes the spanish film crew footage, which never appears in western reporting). one of the main organizers of the protest, Hou Dejian, states that no one died in the square and calls out other organizers for lying I Interview where Hou Dejian, a Taiwanese national and one of the leaders of the Tiananmen protests, says he was in the square all night and saw no one killed here is a twitter thread covering testimony by various organizers, including Hou Dejian). Numerous western media sources have stated that no massacre occurred in the square. (This article links to multiple western sources, including James Miles, attesting that no one died in the square.). various western massacre reports cite wildly different death figures, usually with little or no justification for the number. An attempt to collect all the names of the massacre victims ended early when they only found 155. CIA and NED goons were known to be present in Beijing and involved in the protests. (Here is an article from the Vancouver Sun in 1992, showing western intelligence involvement was known in the west decades ago). during most of the protest, protesters were calling for a return to stricter communism, not for liberal market reforms. These were Marxists. Their signs showed Marxist figures and slogans. (This article shows some images of the protesters displaying Marxist slogans and iconography and discusses it a bit — careful linking this site though, some of the articles are pretty dumb). tank man: the tanks in the video are leaving the square (you can see this in the uncropped footage) and it is broad daylight, whereas the main violence occurred at night. the first violence was against troops, not civilians. On June 2, 1989, two days before the June 4 incident when the main violence occurred, multiple unarmed Chinese troops were burned alive and their corpses hung from nooses in public. ((CW: gore) here is a thread of photos showing dead and wounded troops, some being rescued by civilians. Multiple men were burned to death, others were beaten. Some protesters stole guns from the army and can be seen brandishing them.). the violence against troops was uncharacteristic of the previous tone of interactions between troops and protesters in the preceding weeks. Troops and protesters had peacefully coexisted, singing songs and sharing food together. (Here’s an article that goes into it a bit) :::
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lemmy.ml
The US literally funding the propagation of fake Tiananmen square massacre pics https://www.cecc.gov/sites/chinacommission.house.gov/files/documents/roundtables/2002/CECC%20Roundtable%20Testimony%20-%20Sharon%20Hom%20-%204.15.02.pdf Actual footage from Tiananmen square as covered by the CPC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8dqOuHqcBQ https://youtu.be/7bl_cyYHwNQ Explanation of what happened https://worldaffairs.blog/2019/06/02/tiananmen-square-massacre-facts-fiction-and-propaganda/ Translation of official government explanation https://www.mango-press.com/report-on-stopping-unrest-and-quelling-counter-revolutionary-riots/ Tankman full vid https://youtu.be/GRb4VY2dU4c
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lemmygrad.ml
decent countries don’t have to violently suppress their populations and then lie about it Yeah, “decent” (read: western) countries can just do it and not talk about it because liberals will gladly work on their behalf and deny that it ever happens or deflect to repost lies about global south countries like they do with China. A Wikileaks cable from the US Embassy in Beijing (sent in July 1989) also reveals the eyewitness accounts of a Latin American diplomat and his wife: “They were able to enter and leave the [Tiananmen] square several times and were not harassed by troops. Remaining with students … until the final withdrawal, the diplomat said there were no mass shootings in the square or the monument.” https://worldaffairs.blog/2019/06/02/tiananmen-square-massacre-facts-fiction-and-propaganda/ https://www.workers.org/2022/06/64607/ https://videos.files.wordpress.com/mPSOWUUU/tank-man-2_dvd.mp4 https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/89BEIJING18828_a.html Here’s an interesting video that I hope will make you question if Marxist-Leninists are really the ones you should be calling “tankies”: https://files.catbox.moe/rpzgus.webm
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lemmy.world
Allerdings, das ist keine Inkompetenz sondern Methode. Die CDU ist systematisch korrupt, hier zwei aktuelle Beispiele. https://taz.de/Interne-Chats-in-CDU-Foerdergeldaffaere/!6169442/ https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/regional/niedersachsen/cdu-deepfake-affaere-fraktionschef-raeumt-interne-fehler-ein,cdu-480.html
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alien.top
I’m trying to mount my Synology NAS storage to my Jellyfin VM in my Proxmox host. When adding a new library, Jellyfin can access the main folder (JF_media) but not the subfolders i created. I applied all the access i’ve found in settings and permissions on the NAS. When i mount the same main folder on an ubuntu VM, the subfolders are accessible. I’ve gone through all the guides and FAQs i’ve found online and especially on the Synology website. Guides on Youtube, which i have also followed, have no trouble accessing the subfolders in Jellyfin. I have no idea what’s different in my setup. I checked network connection, IP addresses, firewall and all settings, permissions and such on the NAS. If anyone could give me advice as to where to look or what to try, i would be very happy. I added some pictures of my settings, but also of what i see in Jellyfin, when i try to add a new library. https://preview.redd.it/vv3k5iytqi3c1.png?width=858&format=png&auto=webp&s=43f7fed8af211451bea5dadaffa95547133a0bf8 https://preview.redd.it/6e55khytqi3c1.png?width=861&format=png&auto=webp&s=f6817a178e6b62d3b5b66bc48f4c3c413385a58a https://preview.redd.it/e8y89kytqi3c1.png?width=861&format=png&auto=webp&s=9a8108cebb404bfb681b30969d2aeb5da6f23114 https://preview.redd.it/ziw66kytqi3c1.png?width=859&format=png&auto=webp&s=05889e15d4e476424efa59bf4b28053fb4ff6dcb https://preview.redd.it/tewj3jytqi3c1.png?width=1148&format=png&auto=webp&s=743380be23f9468f60e3d2dfeda67965ab84b813
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fedia.io
No, they are that crazy
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lemmy.ml
Actual footage from Tiananmen square as covered by the CPC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8dqOuHqcBQ https://youtu.be/7bl_cyYHwNQ Explanation of what happened https://worldaffairs.blog/2019/06/02/tiananmen-square-massacre-facts-fiction-and-propaganda/ Translation of official government explanation https://www.mango-press.com/report-on-stopping-unrest-and-quelling-counter-revolutionary-riots/ Tankman full vid https://youtu.be/GRb4VY2dU4c
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lemmy.world
Jeg er efterhånden ved at have mange skraldespande. Jeg har en spand til mad, glas/metal, plast/emballage og restaffald. Jeg lader spanden til restaffald være under køkkenvasken og har så beholdere til resten stående i køkkenet, men jo bedre jeg bliver til at sortere, jo mindre restaffald bliver der - så jeg har overvejet at udskifte skraldespanden under vasken med den til madaffald eller emballage. Hvordan sorterer I affald? Er der nogle tips/tricks som gør det så smertefrit som muligt?
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feddit.org
The effective countermeasures:
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lemy.nl
Het Duitse sportmerk Adidas doet onderzoek naar een grote omkopingszaak in China. Dat melden bronnen aan de Financial Times. Hoge managers van Adidas in China zouden miljoenen euro’s hebben aangenomen. Volgens de krant kwam de zaak aan het licht door een anonieme brief die werknemers van de […]
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lemmy.world
Grenfell Tower Fire (2017) Wed Jun 14, 2017 Image: The Grenfell Tower Fire, 4:33 am on June 14th, 2017. Photo by Natalie Oxford [Wikipedia] On this day in 2017, the deadliest UK residential fire since WWII began in Grenfell Tower, West London. 72 people, including children as young as six months old, were killed. As of 2022, no one has been charged for the residents’ deaths. More than 70 others were injured and 223 people escaped. The high rise apartment complex, managed by Kensington and Chelsea TMO (KCTMO) was home to working class residents, many of them immigrants. Grenfell Tower was 24 stories tall and 120 flats in total. In the years leading up to the fire, residents and neighborhood groups made multiple complaints about the unsafe state of the complex. In 2016, Grenfell Action Group (GAG) warned that people might be trapped in the building if a fire broke out. Later that year, they stated “only a catastrophic event will expose the ineptitude and incompetence of [KCTMO]…They can’t say that they haven’t been warned!” Two women living in Grenfell Tower, Mariem Elgwahry and Nadia Choucair, were threatened with legal action by KCTMO after they campaigned for improved fire safety. Both later died in the fire, at the ages of 27 and 33, respectively. Early on June 14th, 2017, the Grenfell Tower Fire began with a malfunctioning freezer on the fourth floor. Because the building did not meet safety regulations, fire spread rapidly up the building’s exterior, bringing fire and smoke to all residential floors. Eyewitnesses reported seeing some people jumping to their deaths. Some of these deaths were classed as suicides despite being a direct consequence of the fire. Frequent explosions from gas lines (which residents claimed were unsafely exposed just months earlier) in the building were reported. A public inquiry, ordered by then Prime Minister Theresa May, is ongoing as of June 14th, 2022. Despite a 2017 statement from British police stating that they had “reasonable grounds” to suspect corporate manslaughter “may have been committed”, no criminal charges have been filed. While justice for Grenfell Tower residents has been delayed, the British government has found the means to charge at least twenty-one people with fraud relating to damage claims regarding the fire. Edward Daffam, a member of GAG, has stated: “They didn’t give a stuff about us. We were the carcass and they were the vultures. North Kensington was like a goldmine, only they didn’t have to dig for the gold. All they had to do was to marginalise the people who were living here, and that’s what they were doing.” Date: 2017-06-14 Learn More: en.wikipedia.org, socialistworker.co.uk. Tags: #Tenant. Source: www.apeoplescalendar.org
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hexbear.net
Editor’s Note: Michael Bociurkiw (@WorldAffairsPro) is a global affairs analyst. He is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and a former spokesperson for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. He is a regular contributor to CNN Opinion. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. Read more opinion at CNN. Lviv CNN — Few places ooze the pain Ukrainians have been subjected to over the decades more than Lychakiv Cemetery in the western city of Lviv. Among its rolling hills you’ll find the final resting places of many of the figures of Ukrainian independence – from renowned poet Ivan Franko, to composer Volodymyr Ivasiuk, whose mutilated body was found hung from a tree in 1979, a widely-believed victim of KGB brutality. These days, Lychakiv has become the burial ground for hundreds of service men and women killed in the most recent wave of Russian aggression. The sense of pain is palpable. When I visited the cemetery a few weeks ago, howling winter winds competed with the heartbreaking sound of wailing mothers and wives mourning the loss of their loved ones. Many of the downed fighters are in their 20s — in the prime of their lives. I’ve been coming to Lychakiv since the early weeks of the war to get a better sense of the human cost. Amid the high-level diplomatic wrangling over long range ATACMS missiles and F-16 jets, this is the true face of the conflict that often gets neglected in international headlines. Here in Ukraine, the losses are so vast that they touch pretty much every family, contributing to the sense of weariness that has covered the country like a cold blanket of snow. It’s time the West recognized the human cost of the war – not only the deaths but also the injuries, displacement and tearing apart of the social fabric brought by massive dislocation. My friends in the medical profession speak of a coming catastrophic tsunami of mental health problems once soldiers return from the battlefield en masse. With no end in sight to the war and with Lychakiv and other cemeteries bursting at the seams, officials are forced to make room for fresh graves. While the number of war dead has, until recently, remained a tightly-held state secret — President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday pegged the number at 31,000, far below the 70,000 cited by US officials last August — it is those who’ve been silenced who remind us of the amount of blood spilled in the fight to push back Russian forces. “There are such cemeteries as Lychakiv all over Ukraine,” Lviv resident and community activist Lesia Krepyakevych told me. “While the pain is great, so is the pride since those who voluntarily went into battle went to protect us. Now it’s become a place of pilgrimage, where we gain strength of spirit.” Several people told me that small villages around Lviv have been completely depleted of men. The wave of volunteer fighters who flooded recruiting centers at the start of the war have all but gone. It makes me wonder: between those who’ve died, been permanently put out of action by injuries, have fled overseas or have paid off officials to have their names disappear from draft lists, who’s going to be left should a mass mobilization be introduced? (Under Ukrainian law, men between the ages of 18 to 26 can’t be drafted, though they can volunteer). Now, as Republican lawmakers return to work after a two week recess it remains unclear whether Speaker Mike Johnson will allow the mega supplementary bill — which includes $60 billion in aid for Ukraine and approved by the Senate — to come to the House floor. For weeks it’s been tangled up in political gridlock under the direction of former US President Donald Trump. In considering the way forward, Johnson and his Republican colleagues should note the number of Ukrainians who paid the ultimate price to not only defend Ukraine, but also to slow the onslaught of Russia’s land-grabbing, creeping authoritarianism. The battleground is in Ukraine, but the stakes for democracy go beyond borders. The Biden administration has heretofore done a poor job of convincing the American people what a great deal its military aid to Ukraine – roughly $46 billion – has been. For about 5% of the annual US military budget, Ukrainians have managed to destroy about 50% of conventional Russian military capability. With virtually no navy, Kyiv’s stealth strikes on the Black Sea fleet have forced Russian commanders to move ships to safer waters and it has busted apart a unilateral Russian blockade of the western Black Sea, re-opening waterways for food shipments to world markets. There’s a dangerous disconnect between those who argue against aid for Ukraine and what the reality could be, should Putin have his way. While millions of Americans feel that they are suffering economically, the pain could be even more acute if the Russians disable Ukrainian ports such as Odesa – a crucial component of the global food supply chain. Just look at how bottlenecks created in the Red Sea by the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have thrown supply chains into disarray. Perhaps that’s why French President Emmanuel Macon didn’t rule out the idea of sending European troops to Ukraine, when asked Tuesday. Even though other European nations quickly threw cold water on the idea and Russia responded with threats, it’s an indication that if the US slides in its commitment to Ukraine, Kyiv will feel it has no better friends than its immediate European neighbors. Tying Ukraine’s hands in this David and Goliath fight will exact horrific costs, far beyond the amounts paid out by Washington since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion two years ago. In fact, along the 1,000 km frontline, guns pointed towards advancing Russian forces have already fallen silent due to lack of ammunition. For the US to give up on Ukraine now, as some Republican lawmakers wish to do, is to give up on America itself and what it stands for. In many ways, this is also America’s war – except that the Ukrainians are the ones fighting and dying in it.
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feddit.it
Indaffarato come pochi (più o meno come l’altro Wilson, Steven) nell’attività di produttore, chitarrista e arrangiatore per una svariata serie di musicisti, Jonathan Wilson trova però sempre il tempo per stupire con le sue uscite, sia che si tratti della magnificenza di Fanfare oppure delle rilassate sonorità southern di Dixie Blur, per citare due capitoli della sua breve ma inusuale discografia… Leggi…
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lemmygrad.ml
https://web.archive.org/web/20220111132924/https://time.com/6121915/reddit-international-hate-speech/ https://archive.is/fBKXY Person in question was born in Ürümqi, Xinjiang and moved to the US in 1989 as a young student and has been living there since. She started a “Campaign for Uyghurs”, flying the usual terrorist ETIM flag and holds a rememberance of the massacre of Baren. https://campaignforuyghurs.org/cfu-remembers-the-uyghur-lives-lost-in-the-baren-massacre/ Here’s one of their videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6IhMHRNPis Some information on Xinjiang: https://worldaffairs.blog/2019/07/05/xinjiang-and-uyghurs-what-youre-not-being-told/amp/ including the Baren township attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAsEFlC_rBk
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leddit.danmark.party
Hej Burner konto her, for at bevare lidt privatliv. Jeg er en ung mand som tjener fint og generelt ikke mangler penge her i livet. Men har de sidste par år leget med tanken om at skralde mad, både for at spare lidt på de ellers så dyre madvare, men også for at undgå madspild. Igår tog jeg chancen og hoppede på jernhesten,med en tom rygsæk. 40 min senere kom jeg hjem med 6 bananer (1 røg i madaffald) og 8 kg kartofler ( ca 1,5 røg i madaffald, da de var grønne) Ville endelig høre om folk selv har prøvet dette? AMA Dette indlæg blev automatisk arkiveret af Leddit-botten. Vil du diskutere tråden? Tilmeld dig på feddit.dk! The original was posted on /r/denmark by /u/Best_Possible7266 at 2023-08-20 13:29:15+00:00.
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lemmy.world
What’s funny to me is that all the people complaining that she was too dark had no problem with the fact that she was too beautiful.
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hexbear.net
hit the character limit make sure to read sources before sharing them. DO NOT COPY-PASTE THIS ON LEMMY LOL, THIS IS A BRAINSTORM FOR OUR USE We should pool our sources and evidence in this thread so that people with approved lemmy accounts can start spreading it there. Feel free to contribute lol, it’s a lot of work for me to do on my own and I might miss stuff or make mistakes, although I’m gonna keep going help or no I’ll grab links in a second (and there are some good articles I’d like to find that gather lots of evidence in one place), but here’s some stuff off the top of my head: Wikileaks published a private diplomatic cable stating that no one was killed in the square itself, although a smaller number of people did die in clashes elsewhere in Beijing, consistent with China’s own official account. (Here is the cable) A spanish film crew was in the square all night and filmed crowds of people walking out of the square in the early morning, singing the Internationale. Two wounded people are shown among them, possibly people who had been brought to the red cross station in the square, but no gunshots are heard, no one is running, and there are no bodies. (courtesy of /u/robinn, here’s footage of a Hong Kong news report that includes the spanish film crew footage) two of the main organizers of the protest, Hou Dejian and Liu Xiaobo, state that no one died in the square, and call out other organizers for lying (courtesy of /u/GarbageShoot: interview where Hou Dejian, a Taiwanese national and one of the leaders of the Tiananmen protests, says he was in the square all night and saw no one killed, and Liu Xiaobo agrees with him — and also courtesy of /u/robinn, here is a twitter thread covering testimony by various organizers, including Hou Dejian and Liu Xiaobo) Numerous western media sources have stated that no massacre occurred in the square. (This article links to multiple western sources, including James Miles, attesting that no one died in the square. — be warned that this site also hosts some crank articles, you might want to focus on the sources) various western massacre reports cite wildly different death figures, usually with little or no justification for the number an attempt to collect all the names of the massacre victims ended early when they only found 155 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Mothers CIA and NED goons were known to be present in Beijing and involved in the protests. (Here is an article from the Vancouver Sun in 1992, showing western intelligence involvement was known in the west decades ago) during most of the protest, protesters were calling for a return to stricter communism, not for liberal market reforms. These were Marxists. Their signs showed Marxist figures and slogans. (This article shows some images of the protesters displaying Marxist slogans and iconography and discusses it a bit — again, be warned that this site hosts some crank articles, so you might want to focus on the sources) toward the end protest signs were suddenly in English tank man: the guy survives and is led away by bystanders, and also the tanks in the video are leaving the square (you can see this in the uncropped footage) and it is broad daylight, whereas the main violence occurred at night (also, courtesy of /u/robinn again: China in 1989 for one man vs. the U.S. in 2020 for a whole crowd and courtesy of /u/LegaliiizeIt, another video in the same vein) online photos of corpses were visibly taken elsewhere, not the square the first violence was against troops, not civilians. On June 2, 1989, two days before the June 4 incident when the main violence occurred, multiple unarmed Chinese troops were burned alive and their corpses hung from nooses in public. ((CW: gore) courtesy of /u/robinn, here is a thread of photos showing dead and wounded troops, some being rescued by civilians. Multiple men were burned to death, others were beaten. Some protesters stole guns from the army and can be seen brandishing them.) the violence against troops was uncharacteristic of the previous tone of interactions between troops and protesters in the preceding weeks. Troops and protesters had peacefully coexisted, singing songs and sharing food together. (Here’s an article that goes into it a bit — again, be warned that this site hosts some crank articles, so you might want to focus on the sources) I don’t really have much off the top of my head for Uighur genocide stuff libs should hear who Zens is even the US State Department and the UN concede there is no mass killing in Xinjiang. western intelligence has been stoking and funding islamic extremism in Xinjiang. There’s that talk by some American general or colonel where he acknowledges this, and I think there are other sources online as well /u/robinn made this card with lots of Uighur info Qiaocollective is a good source on Xinjiang, courtesy of /u/BynarsAreOk I’ll stick articles down here, some of which aggregate lots of evidence in one place How psy-ops warriors fooled me about Tiananmen Square: a warning …edgy-sounding title though 1989: Tiananmen Square ‘massacre’ was a myth How Much Longer Do We Need to Propagate Lies About Tiananmen Square? Tiananmen — The Big Lie Tiananmen: The Massacre that Wasn’t 1989 Tiananmen Square “Student Massacre” was a hoax The Truth Behind the Myth of the ‘Tiananmen Square Massacre’ - Opinion Piece By Dr. Dennis Etler Notes for 30th Anniversary of TianAnMen Incident, courtesy of /u/GarbageShoot Tiananmen Square Massacre – Facts, Fiction and Propaganda Lots of good images and western media quotes, but the site hosts some goofy articles so be careful citing it Let’s talk about Tiananmen Square, 1989: My hearsay is better than your hearsay Birth of a massacre myth, courtesy of /u/GarbageShoot CBS news: There was no “Tiananmen Square Massacre”, courtesy of /u/robinn a NYT questioning the massacre, courtesy of /u/robinn and here’s a pastebin rip dessalines, a Lemmy dev, has a good socialism FAQ, including sections on Tiananmen, courtesy of /u/PorkrollPosadist [link] [link] these two /r/ChangeMyView comments on China are great, courtesy of /u/geikei [link] [link] [link] Some old hexbear threads, courtesy of /u/Finger not China, but /u/robinn also made a carrd on the DPRK and linked a good twitter thread by ProleWiki Comments in this thread to check out. I’ll try to also add their info up here. /u/robinn: https://hexbear.net/post/271448/comment/3513792 /u/Awoo suggests keeping things short and digestible instead of posting long effortposts, since libs will just count on people not reading the whole thing and they will point at it and say “See? They deny the Uighur genocide” or “See, they deny Tiananmen” https://hexbear.net/post/271448/comment/3514089 /u/GnastyGnuts has some great links but I hit char limit https://hexbear.net/post/271448/comment/3514972 /u/Krause has more great links https://hexbear.net/comment/3529874 Lemmy posts and comments from us by /u/GarbageShoot: https://lemmy.ml/comment/476526
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hexbear.net
Reposted from elsewhere. wikileaks published a private diplomatic cable stating that no one was killed in the square itself, although a smaller number of people did die in clashes elsewhere in Beijing, consistent with China’s own official account. (Here’s a Telegraph article on the cables). a spanish film crew was in the square all night and filmed people peacefully leaving the square in the early morning, singing the Internationale, here’s footage of a Hong Kong news report that includes the spanish film crew footage, which never appears in western reporting). one of the main organizers of the protest, Hou Dejian, states that no one died in the square and calls out other organizers for lying I Interview where Hou Dejian, a Taiwanese national and one of the leaders of the Tiananmen protests, says he was in the square all night and saw no one killed here is a twitter thread covering testimony by various organizers, including Hou Dejian). Numerous western media sources have stated that no massacre occurred in the square. (This article links to multiple western sources, including James Miles, attesting that no one died in the square.). various western massacre reports cite wildly different death figures, usually with little or no justification for the number. An attempt to collect all the names of the massacre victims ended early when they only found 155. CIA and NED goons were known to be present in Beijing and involved in the protests. (Here is an article from the Vancouver Sun in 1992, showing western intelligence involvement was known in the west decades ago). during most of the protest, protesters were calling for a return to stricter communism, not for liberal market reforms. These were Marxists. Their signs showed Marxist figures and slogans. (This article shows some images of the protesters displaying Marxist slogans and iconography and discusses it a bit — careful linking this site though, some of the articles are pretty dumb). tank man: the tanks in the video are leaving the square (you can see this in the uncropped footage) and it is broad daylight, whereas the main violence occurred at night. the first violence was against troops, not civilians. On June 2, 1989, two days before the June 4 incident when the main violence occurred, multiple unarmed Chinese troops were burned alive and their corpses hung from nooses in public. ((CW: gore) here is a thread of photos showing dead and wounded troops, some being rescued by civilians. Multiple men were burned to death, others were beaten. Some protesters stole guns from the army and can be seen brandishing them.). the violence against troops was uncharacteristic of the previous tone of interactions between troops and protesters in the preceding weeks. Troops and protesters had peacefully coexisted, singing songs and sharing food together. (Here’s an article that goes into it a bit)
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lemmy.ml
I’m not running away form anything. I’ve explained to you that US tried to run a color revolution in China which failed. I’ve provided you with a source that documents the chain of events and references primary sources documenting these events. The reason the students were in the square is explained in great detail in the link I gave you and you obviously failed to read (twice by your own account). Here’s a different source with even more information, and even some pictures for people with poor reading comprehension https://worldaffairs.blog/2019/06/02/tiananmen-square-massacre-facts-fiction-and-propaganda/ So maybe take your own advice, stop running away and start engaging with the actual facts instead of doing low effort trolling.
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lemmygrad.ml
Story time: how I got banned from /r/socialism. TL:DR; If you disagree with the US propaganda that “China is committing cultural genocide of Muslim Uyghurs”, 2, then you will be permabanned from /r/socialism (specifically, by mods /u/107A, and /u/agnosticnixie) Context A lot of MLs/MLMs have been concerned over the state of /r/socialism in the last few months; we’ve been seeing an upward tick in defenses of western parliamentary / bourgeois democracy as being “superior” to the Cuban, USSR, Chinese, or NK models, shallow demonization of Actually-Existing-Socialist (AES) attempts (usually taking the low-effort form of “but state capitalism”) and especially posts that bash the US’s enemies (IE VZ/Syria/Cuba/China/Iran/Russia/Bolivia/Puerto Rico). Its not hard to see why: if you look over the mod list, there is only one mod of /r/socialism that is a Marxist-Leninist, and /r/soc otherwise has zero non-libertarian / “authoritarian” socialist mods, such as Maoists/MLMs/MTWs etc. /u/bayarea415, the only Marxist-Leninist mod left (and the only one who doesn’t hold western biases about China), does wonderful work compiling megathreads refuting western Sinophobic propaganda, and does more than any other mod towards educating those new to socialism, and creating that necessary bridge for those to cross from social democracy, liberalism, and reactionism towards anti-imperialist / revolutionary politics. A few of the top mods of /r/soc (nearly the entire team are Anarchists, and I don’t mean to demonize all anarchists, just the ones that uncritically echo US propaganda) repeatedly remove bayarea415 from the mod-team, then re-institute them at the bottom of the modlist, after a community backlash. This happened a few months ago, then again 2 weeks ago, and almost again a few days ago. This is despite bayarea415 having most of the top posts in the last year of /r/socialism, and doing the most work in creating 101s, megathreads, and removing socdem posts. Here’s a post from /u/agnosticnixie a few days ago, one of the top mods of /r/socialism, wanting to use the same justification banning me, to remove bayarea415 from the mod team. Here’s yet another instance of nixie harrassing bayarea. Nixie is also anti-Evo Morales / Bolivian Socialism (and anti-Sankara), and considers anyone who doesn’t demonize China, as a “Dengist”, repeating the myth that Deng turned China capitalist. The current mods are extremely hostile towards China, and are happy to join along with Pence, Pompeo, Gamers, Murican football fans, elitist liberals, and sinophobic redditors in claiming that “China is genociding Muslims” (See my megathread, which is what caused my ban, for why this is false). This is an extremely popular opinion amongst westerners, happy to eat up unsourced articles from the guardian or independent, or NED/State department funded western academics. There is no short version to this story, but a good starting place is this article. Uyghur culture is thriving in XinJiang, there are over 10k mosques, enshrined religous freedom for Islam, the vast majority of Muslims in XinJiang think positively of China, the extremist elements make up only a tiny minority, and the US is pushing extremism and separatism, because a destabilized XinJiang would cause a lot of damage to the new silk road initiative, and disrupt Chinas trade west of its borders. The British, French, and US imperialist policy of pushing religious and ethnic factionalism, extremism, and then pitting them against each other (and especially against its larger enemies), is a long-perfected artform in the Middle East and Asia. Unsurprisingly, a majority of Muslim countries support China’s policies in XinJiang, and don’t believe the western lies told about it. 2, 3. Supporters include Algeria, Angola, Bahrain, Belarus, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Comoros, Congo, Cuba, DR Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Gabon, Kuwait, Laos, Nigeria, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Togo, Turkmenistan, UAE, Venezuela, Zimbabwe. Never let people tell you that US propaganda isn’t effective: in 2006, only 30% of the US population hated China. In 2019, its 60%. This sinophobia and anti-communism is so pervasive in the west, that it permeates every political trend not based on anti-imperialism. Its a repeat of cold war / red scare anti-communism, but now that the anti-communist left can no longer take aim at the USSR, they’ve focused on China as the primary target. A lot of us have spent a good amount of time (see my megathreads for example ) disproving what appears to be the 6 main points of anti-China propaganda, where western anti-communists (whether they be ultralefts, liberals, socdems, anarchists, or reactionaries) all agree: “China isn’t democratic / is a state capitalist dictatorship”, “China is repressing Hong Kong”, “China spies on its people”, “China represses Muslims”, “China massacred protesters at Tianenmen”, “Mao killed / starved millions of people”. We also have to write about why, in recent decades, the US is starting a new cold war against China: the US empire is in decline (China’s life expectancy surpassed the US in 2015, people’s real wage in China has gone up 4x in the past 25 years, while the US’s remains below 1973 levels, the global south is choosing China’s belt and road initiative over the west’s imperialist trading and funding networks, why China’s one-party state is outperforming western multi-party democracies in terms of performance and public satisfaction (96% approval rating as of 2016), why the US space program is dead (except for lord elon of course) while China is launching a mars rover in 2020, etc. China is an emergent superpower, rapidly eclipsing the US, and the US has only two cards left to play: its military supremacy, and its media monopoly. The rash of anti-China sentiment is no accident; the six capitalist entities that own all media push these stories because its in their class interests to do so; because the US dollar will lose its supremacy, the rest of the world will prefer dealing with China over the US or EU, if they can only convince the world of China’s “immorality” and western “moral superiority”. Lots of fun reboots of cold war and orientalist attitudes going on here. In short, its much easier for the west to make up bullshit and point fingers at its enemies, rather than own up to its decaying status as a world superpower, its massive social problems and alienation. And secondly, we have to disprove the CIA propaganda that “China is imperialist”, as if what drove Maoists to liberate peasants and the poor of the world then and now, was narrow nationalism / racial supremacy, and that there is fundamentally no difference between the foreign policies of capitalist empires like the US, and socialist formations like China, Cuba, etc. This is western chauvinists imputing the values of its own colonial powers onto those it colonized for hundreds of years (projection in psychology I think). Ultralefts also like to make it seem that all trade is inequitable, therefore, China is “imperializing” any country or people it trades with (total nonsense).