I’m finding it harder and harder to believe that someone can be this stupid unintentionally.
“Tiny Man Square” LMAO…. The coward won’t even say it.
I’m pretty sure that video I watched a while back with all the bodies was a good indicator of what happened in tankie heaven.
Mods will be looking for excuses
That’s how you, a bad moderator, operate.
That isn’t how the majority of actually competent moderators do shit.
Let’s be clear: giving Tiananmen Square a juvenile nickname is a propaganda strategy to make people who disagree with him feel equally stupid and juvenile. Davel’s entire spiel is, top to bottom, hypocrisy, as he’ll happily weaponize whatever propaganda techniques he can use while mocking others for falling for it, completely oblivious that his body is 72% Kool-Aid at this point.
The irony of his rant about uncomfortable truths will likely be forever lost on him.
the cult programming goes deeeeeep
Dudes a massive coward that can’t stand up to scrutiny in the slightest. He just spews his copypasta propaganda and then he bails. Only after reaching out to mods/admins to get people’s shit removed/banned.
“Tiny Man Square”? Who is this guy afraid of?
That part reads as “the ignorant westerners are so uninformed and propagandized that they don’t even know the name of the square” to me
It reads like he’s afraid to say the actual name.
If he was afraid of censors he would avoid the topic entirely as common malapropisms like “Tiny Man Square” and “See See Pee” are almost certainly considered.
Most often these phrases are brought out to mock the person they’re replaying too. For example, before I knew that it wasn’t actually called the “Chinese Communist Party” or “CCP”, which is just what the American State Department calls them in order to make it easy to identify the allegiance of an author, I’d get a lot of “is the see see pee in the room with you now?” replies.
That’s really the only reaction i can give to his whole rant.
Dude is fucked in the head.
IIRC the western view is inaccurate, in that we typically figure “authorities mercilessly crushed dissent” and the reality is more like “local authorities were swayed by the dissent and nearly turned against the government, so the government sent the goddamn army to crush those authorities too.”
But the one-party state declares itself the only representation of the people’s will, so obviously any popular defiance is a contradiction.
Yup. To make an American parallel, imagine if cops suddenly joined in on left wing anti-Trump protests… And then in response, Trump rolled tanks in and crushed both protesters and cops.
The message behind Tiananmen Square wasn’t for the protestors, because they already knew what was at stake. The message was for the authorities who may have been considering doing similar things. Stay in line and support the administration; the nail that sticks out gets hammered down.
“local authorities were swayed by the dissent and nearly turned against the government, so the government sent the goddamn army to crush those authorities too.”
It’s an ancient tankie tradition, after all. Hell, it doesn’t get more traditional than where you get the name from.
Chairman Celestia: “Tell me, anarchists, do you like… bananas?”
Why is it always the brainwashed that can’t stop whining about brainwashing and how THEY sound the cure?
Dave complaining about censorship? Wild.
“the only moral censorship, is my censorship”-TANKIES and conservatives.
Who Dave?
Right? It’s almost like he knows he’s both the joke and the punchline.
Rooting for and defending dictators also are an endorphin hit.
Source: Talked to ex-tankies, know some current dictator fans (usually right-leaning).
Have they tried rooting for their local sports team who hasn’t won a game in years? Its basically the same thing.
They often did in addition to the others.
What the heck is an anti-kitten burning coalition?
Edit: Found it: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2012/02/27/rick-santorum-and-the-anti-kitten-burning-coalition/
If you read your theory, you would be aware that kittens are sustainable fuel and burning them is based.
I can’t wait for the new AI datacenters to be powered by orphan crushing machines
Some stupid shit they have to make up so they feel like they’re the good guys and everyone else are the bad guys.
Apparently we burn kittens?
Other way around. He’s accusing us of accusing them of (metaphorically) burning kittens so we can feel good about ourselves on some artificial high ground
Either way, it’s convoluted bullshit to make them appear either the victor or the victim. And it’s pathetic.
It’s a reference that I imagine political people under 35 won’t catch without doing a search online.
A reference:
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2014/12/21/the-anti-kitten-burning-coalition-again/
That link isn’t working for me.
Hm. To provide context then: It is an argument device used by Fred Clark, who goes by Slacktivist, in his writing. His posts are hosted on the Patheos site as he is a religious albeit leftist writer. The link I provided is just one article where he uses it.
That should hopefully help you navigate towards it, if you’re so inclined.
Yeah that worked, thanks for the help.
“Brainwashing”
He’s the proud 1%er who knows what really happened in tiny man square! Trust him, bro’!
Man, the sheer logic leap about feel good endorphins being equivalent to a drug hit. So are you doing drugs when you post things in support of China? Or anything else you feel you have the moral highground on?
Complete nonsense. Once again they exempt themselves from their own “logic”.
Watching all of you argue ad nasuem about what state is the goodest boi is infuriating. On a macro level its just tribalism again.
Good share bud! Thanks!!
I see you are employing the UniversalMonk strategy instead of engaging. It’d be nice to talk about why people feel the need to defend ravenous states but okay.
It’s not employing anything let alone implying anything that douchebag says or does-
But when someone pops in with their two cents being- “you’re both being dumb”- it’s a safe bet that you won’t be met with an invitation to discuss your profundity more deeply.
I mean you gotta realize at one point it is just tribalism, right? How many China Bad, US bad arguments can we have before we get some nuance?
Do you know where we are right now? Maybe check the comm you’ve come to flash that pearly white armor in and readdress the issue accordingly.
I know. Sometimes I just comment what I am thinking.
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