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My favourite bit is when Wikipedia itself is like “the 10,000 claim was made by one dude who basically instantly retracted it and claimed the still unplausibly high number of 2,000”.
Also, the Tank Man photographer talks about the protestors throwing molotov cocktails and beating police officers to death.
And the whole “China pretends it didn’t happen”…they have official death estimates. 300 people. The US have their own estimate. 900 people. But no matter the number, it was much fewer than the protest leaders had hoped for.
To quote one of the protest leaders “What we actually are hoping for is bloodshed, the moment when the government is ready to brazenly butcher the people. Only when the Square is awash with blood will the people of China open their eyes” - Chai Ling
By the way, that person is alive and well running a firm that fires people for not praying at work.
US: Let’s send weapons to our allies that are at war! Iran: We’ll do the same! US: shocked Pikachu face
This is basically the argument Castro makes in “My Life” as to why revolutions tend to start with someone that is a descendent of the capitalist class (Castro - father was a plantation owner; Lenin - father was a state councillor and appointed to the hereditary nobility; Mao - father was a moneylender and one of the wealthiest farmers in the region)
Oh man wait until you see the UK elections.
This led me on a deep dive of the banned Palestine conference in Germany and I found Yanis Varoufakis’ speech.
“How much Palestinian blood must flow before your, justified, guilt over the Holocaust is washed away?” - that line hits so hard
This, like the tariffs on EVs, shows the US would rather people died than lose even a smidge of influence.
And the moment Labour looks even a little bit more progressive, bam! Psyops media campaign!
We are trapped in class warfare and democratic means of escape have been removed.
Side note: had the sudden realisation that Corbyn is the first person I can remember that was directly discredited because they must be “hamas”.