I didn’t notice it being down. I always go here to pick a healthy server: https://status.d420.de/

That’s just a shorter version of the video I posted. And I don’t think the full footage ever aired on TV, because it’s around ten or twenty minutes long, mostly of him on top of the tank having a conversation with the crew.

You don’t know where they were going any more than I do. All we know is they were leaving the Square, and he was standing to stop them. We don’t know what conversation he had with the person in the tank (that part of the video was clipped out, presumably for brevity, because it goes on for several minutes).

He seems to be blocking their exiting the square, so it appears he wanted them to remain in it. I don’t know where the tanks were going. Perhaps back to base, perhaps somewhere else.

Edit to add: Back to base seems most likely, because this was on June 5th, the day after the protests had ended.

Doesn’t this rather ignore the fact that the day before the square was cleared of protestors, resulting in hundreds/thousands of deaths?

You can see people in the Square in this photo. No one died in the Square, though some people did die elsewhere in the downtown area, but not thousands.

Considering that Tank Man was never heard from again after the photo was taken, I don’t think you claim to understand his rationale for standing in front of the tank.

I can’t read his mind, no. But why else might he want to stop tanks from leaving?

We can only assume the reason due to the continued censorship of the photo inside China to this day.

It’s not censored inside China, though. Why do you think that it is, other than through our own Cold War propaganda that tells us so?

• Columbia Journalism Review: The Myth of Tiananmen
• The Tian’anmen Square ‘Massacre’: The West’s Most Persuasive, Most Pervasive Lie.
• 1989 Tian’anmen Square riots
• A Note on the Tiananmen Protests
• Images from Tiananmen 1989 the West never shows (NSFW / CW: violence and death)
• How psy-ops warriors fooled me about Tiananmen Square: a warning
• My Memories of Tiananmen Protest

Thanks, fixed.

Hah, the video must have been taken down last week. I figured it might eventually be.

Here’s another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq8zFLIftGk

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I assume he doesn’t know because almost no Westerners seem to.

Another ironic example of Westerners not understanding what tank man was actually doing: stopping the tanks from leaving Tianmanmen Square. He was doing the opposite of an act of defiance against government involvement; he wanted them to be involved. Also, he left the scene unscathed when other civilians came and scurried him away: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq8zFLIftGk

Maybe Western media always show us a cropped version of the tank man photo, with Tianmanmen Square removed, because it doesn’t fit in with their narrative.

[Edit to replace deleted YouTube video.]

You forgor the first rule of fed club.

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Reason: Hostile

Reporter, is it hostile, or are you hoping to have the comment removed by gaming the reporting system and the mods?

POMPEII, keming boogaloo

CNN: Human brain samples contain an entire spoon’s worth of nanoplastics, study says

Now you’ve got 𒐂 problems.

It’s where the carcinized go on summer holiday.

The relationship is symbiotic. It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.

Previously:

And it will undoubtedly pay off for them. This is the first brazenly tech oligarchy-driven administration.

Remember who was at Trump’s inauguration? Musk, obviously, but also:

• Tim Cook, CEO of Apple
• Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon
• Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta
• Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet

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Trump, a populist president, is flanked by tech billionaires at his inauguration

Tim Apple isn’t your friend, either. No oligarch is.

r/prematurecelebration moment.

☑️ I’m not in this photo and I don’t like it.

For years and until very recently, every MacOS & iOS update would silently turn Wi-Fi and Bluetooth back on 😡