Why do liberals think the tank man was crushed when the whole video is available and you can see that he gets away?
The liberals that do know that "tank man was crushed" is a lie yet still don't do the math that maybe more shit is a lie… just why?
>>2287020because libs be libing.
>>2287022because it was a color revolution going on
https://goodsresearch.substack.com/p/tiananmen-1989-anatomy-of-a-colour
>During the 1980s and 90s, many socialist states had succumbed to decades of imperialist onslaught, and were defeated and demolished.
>Yugoslavia, USSR, GDR, Socialist Poland, etc. were torn apart, cannibalised over night, dooming entire populations to poverty and underdevelopment, became subjects of the global neo-liberal order, subservient vassals, and even useful proxies of empire.
>The same fate was planned for China; but the Communist Party was able to defeat the colour revolution, steer clear of the capitalist road, and the country has remained sovereign and independent on the socialist path of working class state controlled mixed economy.
>Exploitation, corruption, and social alienation necessarily came with the introduction of even limited and controlled capitalism. Conditions for Chinese labour in the factories of Western corporations were so terrible that a few featured suicide nets. The pressures on working class young people to compete against each other, being preyed upon by a new class of ruthless minor bourgeoisie that sought to get rich through profiteering, were immense. Adding to all of that inflation, economic ups and downs, the growing pains of an extremely underdeveloped economy, many urbanites had a very difficult, back breaking, soul crushing time during those heartless, dog-eat-dog years.
>Grievances produced by such economic discontent and societal contradictions were the initial and main drivers of the late 1980s protest movements. In 1989, coupled with the death of the relatively liberal party leader Hu Yaobang, whose funeral gave cover and permission for large scale gatherings, it came to a boiling point.
>By far, the largest faction was the left, which wanted to limit or even stop the Reform and Opening Up, suppress or even abolish the emerging private sector, and re-establish a state operated socialist economy with collective industry.
>Relatively small were the centrists who wanted to reorganise the policies of Reform and Opening Up, increase welfare, and improve strategies to make life more liveable for the workers.
<The smallest but most vocal faction was the rightists, which hardly existed in the beginning but grew as the protests progressed. They wanted further, accelerated liberalisation, expanded private industry, and towards the end, regime change.
<The violent extreme right, which did not emerge until towards the very end, the last few days, called for total privatisation of the economy and “Western style democracy now!” — in other words the immediate overthrow of the Communist Party.
<It was towards the right and extreme right that elaborate and powerful foreign influences pushed the entire protest movement. If you see military killed, burnt alive, and beaten to death, more signs in English than in the native language, it's more likely that a color revolution is going one.
>To date, there is not a single shred of authentic photographic, video, or any other kind of evidence from the dozens of foreign journalists and diplomats present at the time, or later revealed by wikileaks, for the “thousands” or “tens of thousands” of student and civilian protesters “massacred” by gun fire, run over by tanks, in or around the square, on June 4th or any of the other days of the uprising.>>2287057the US needs a US embassy inside the US first.
>>2287120how'd you get
that out of my post?
>>2287020How are we against liberals if this is "leftypol"?
Is this whole website some kind of right wing psyop?
>>2287664Please, you know full well this is not the case
Besides, USA uses national guard with heavy weapons every year to quell some riot, and nobody's ever squeaking about it, so, the use of tanks was never anything special - or you are just a hypocrite
>>2287700They should have done that and disarm policemen as well
There was a tangible moment when protests were so widespread that all the talking heads started bowing to protestors and were hyperconscious about what they were saying
>>2287717They also teach children creationism and visit churches every sunday. Crazy people
>>2287729Made what up? The moment when democratic party was acting all social-democrat and trying to silence the protests by worming their way in?
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