• BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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    6 hours ago

    Tank Man was disappeared after this

    It must be so easy being an anti communist, you can just make up whatever unsourced claims you like and expect people to believe it

    Some other guy

    Oh well, if “some guy” said it…

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          Well, it is undisputed that the CPC censors all mentions of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. Both public and private - the US may lie, but private free speech is still allowed. So can we please stop pretending that China in its current form is not doing evil?

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            Both public and private

            The local CPC deputies have broken into my house multiple times for mentioning it when talking politics with friends (sarcasm). You people are so unserious

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              From https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2025/05/what-is-the-tiananmen-crackdown/

              Alliance vice-chairperson Chow Hang-tung and 25 activists were prosecuted in 2020 simply because they insisted on lighting candles in Victoria Park despite the government prohibiting the vigil that year, ostensibly on Covid-19 grounds. In 2021, after the police banned the vigil once again, Chow was arrested on 4 June after encouraging people on social media to commemorate the crackdown by lighting candles.

              Ultimately, Chow was jailed for 22 months for taking part and inciting others to take part in an unauthorised assembly. She and fellow Hong Kong Alliance leaders Lee Cheuk Yan and Albert Ho have also been charged with “inciting subversion” under the National Security Law and all three face a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

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                Amnesty always manufactures consent for shit, but assuming this is true, why would any government be okay with people commemorating an attempt to overthrow them? You’re so unserious

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                  why would any government be okay with people commemorating an attempt to overthrow them?

                  Because that is free private speech. That is what free speech means.

                  You are allowed to commemorate Jan 6 in the US. I think you are an idiot if you do so, but that it still your right to free speech.

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                Firstly that’s public.

                Secondly

                for taking part and inciting others to take part in an unauthorised assembly

                Thirdly amnesty famous for publishing the nayirah testimony without any factchecking or corroboration

                Fourthly you Brits are really butthurt about losing your colony and your bootlickers being a shunned minority.

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                  Firstly that’s public.

                  It is a private person saying a thing. As opposed to the state saying a thing.

                  And the text also says:

                  all three face a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

                  You write:

                  you Brits

                  WTF? I am not British.

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                    all three face a maximum sentence of life imprisonment

                    For seperate charges related to being an owned arm of the western regime change machine.

                    WTF? I am not British.

                    My bad I saw the feddit and weird obsession with HK separatists being allowed push for a return to British colonisation and just assumed.

                    It is a private person saying a thing

                    Making public statements, pushing for a public gathering in a public place. Maybe your and my idea of what private means is different. Is it private if a pervert flashes people in public just because they’re a “private person”?

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      Some of us here have expiriance with communist regimes beyond simping them online.

      But on a common sense level; you really believe a government which sends tanks onto unarmed student protest does not prosecute someone who attempts to block it?

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        I wouldn’t expect a Polish nationalist to have a good grasp on anything but “unarmed student protest” is an entirely misleading categorisation of a violent riot that brutally murdered multiple soldiers who were simply standing guard before the clashes broke out and who’s leaders did interviews specifically detailing their plans to incite massive violence and flee to America.

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          Look at the Wujek mine riot, miners were attacking militia with sharpened rebars and loudly threatening to lynch the captured militamen, but when single inexperienced detachment of militia which shouldn’t even been there opened fire (and despite entire chain of command from direct commander to minister Kiszczak and gen Jaruzelski absolutely forbidding this) it’s suddenly example of horrible martyrology and one of founding myths of comprador III RP.

          Of course hundreds of workers being murdered in the prewar Poland and dozens (maybe hundreds) of thousands of social murders after 1989 are not mentioned ever.