I watched the footage and I saw one (1) injured person, who was helped away from the scene by other civilians without the military intervening. The comments are obviously still treating it like a video of an execution by firing squad and getting self righteous because they know that their country would never do something like that on film.
But for real I hope none of the bicycles were seriously hurt
The british cables that said no massacre occured? Those british cables? The ones that have been public for decades? Those ones? Fucking libs are unreachable, living in their own reality.
I saw one (1) injured person, who was helped away from the scene by other civilians without the military intervening.
Yeah I often wonder what exactly libs are seeing when they watch this footage. Do they really think this is footage of a massacre? Do they see all the abandoned bicycles and just imagine a bunch of corpses among them to satisfy the expectation they went in with?
As far as I can tell the one injured guy injured himself, too. He just fell. It sounded like maybe there was gunfire somewhere and everyone panicked and hit the ground, and this guy just fell wrong.
It’s foreign
Yeah I often wonder what exactly libs are seeing when they watch this footage.
The actual contents of the video are irrelevant. The real purpose of their words is to signal compliance and loyalty to Western chauvinism and white supremacy.
those sneaky chinese took away all the bodies and cleaned all the blood before cameras could capture them.
Doing hemaphrenology to explain that Asiatic blood is translucent to analog film.
Yeah I often wonder what exactly libs are seeing when they watch this footage
Almost none of them watch the footage, or they watch the shortest snippet of Tank Man or whatever. Genuinely, they treat it as evidence without the barest effort to understand its content.
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You laugh, but those bikes were just two days from retirement.
This website won’t decide if it’s pro-bike or anti-bike. Pathetic.
we’re pro bike but we can take a joke
I don’t see what’s funny about the cyclecaust that happened in China.
Edit: Read my book “Two Wheels, Too Little Time: The suppression and extermination of bicycles in Deng’s China.”
13.3k upvotes in 50 minutes, nothing fishy there
It’s at 22k now
Those front page subreddits are oozing with SEO manipulation algorithms and/or AI agents. It’s probably different nowadays but back when r/CTH was around, there were studies showing how easy it was to manipulate the reddit algo to fling any old shite to the default front pages (/r/all and /r/popular).
Good thing the US state has never done anything hostile to its own civilian populace, or this obsession with an unpopular protest that ended violently in a foreign country almost 40 years ago would be really weird and hypocritical
if the bbcany br*t had footage of the “massacre” why wasn’t it published sooner? Weird that there’s photographic evidence of PLA soldiers being murdered but no footage of all the claims of running over people with tanks and hosing the remains into the sewer…That story is made up just like you imply, but it is worth noting there is at least one picture of someone rolled over with a tank. I don’t really know what the situation was, presumably just the army advancing and incidentally rolling over someone who died in a gunfight just prior . . . I wonder if they were a bystander or one of the guerrillas, though.
I remember seeing one such photo[1], but it was completely contextless (as in there was no associated documentation and no surroundings in the photo to verify its setting), and I have never seen it included in any photo libraries of the June 4th events.
Could you share (with a CW, of course) the photo you’re describing, if you could? I’d like to know as much as possible.
alleged to me by a redditor ↩︎
My experience is similar to yours, though I thought that it was included in one such collection. Maybe I have made a mistake, but it was being treated by “apologists” as though it was genuine and so I was credulous about it.
I believe this was the picture:
There is another on the same site of an alleged crushed person but the picture is totally indecipherable beyond being very bloody. Also one or two other pictures of corpses that it says are from the incident, which seems plausible but it’s a weird site so I’m going to give that caveat anywsy.
It does not help that the source it gives appears to be down and also is called “christusrex.org”. Christian radicals were famously a driving force in the death of civilians during the incident . . .
So in short I have basically no more context than you do.
The comments are obviously still treating it like a video of an execution by firing squad and getting self righteous because they know that their country would never do something like that on film.
Meanwhile we’re about to have a public execution around Christmas.
:McBain-that’s-the-joke:
But yeah since that news came out I’ve decided I never want to hear American geopolitics libs say shit about fuck ever again, on the internet or otherwise
i mean i wouldn’t hold it against them if they publicly offed billionaires
Im sure it’s very unrelated that the US govt announced it is going to execute a man on live television, and then a bunch of Tiannamen Square footage gets boosted on reddit.
Then again, those boosted vids come up every bloody month like clockwork (almost automatic, one could say)
Love how none of these bikes have bloodstains but they’re all proof of murder
theyre gonna think amsterdam is conducting a genocide every day around noon when everyone leaves their bikes for lunch
Saddest 6 word short story:
For sale, handle bars, never used
Lime bikes left in annoying places mean a Londoner died
Even just a few seconds in front of a pub is enough for someone to get glassed by its denizens. Like the Polar bear, they don’t leave a single trace of the body behind, only the bike.
Remember when ATF killed 28 kids in Waco? Yah me neither
RIP @7bicycles@hexbear.net 😔
Edit: Looks like eight or nine bicycles total in the photo, so another discrete quantity of bicycle comrades are also pictured
Again, we have to bring up the 1989 Spring and Summer unrest, the June 4th incident, the ‘Tiananmen Square Massacre’ - this is not really recent news footage, let alone any news
Here’s a deprogram thread on it
Here’s the Qiao Collective’s reading list on it
Also, I’m going to be self-promoting some documentaries on this incident, made by CCTV, Chinese public news programs, which I and death have subtitled
The Test of Blood and Fire: CCTV full documentary on June 4th incident - TankieTube 53:40 Episode 2
Fly High, Flag of the Republic —A True Account of Suppressing the Counter-Revolutionary Riot (Tiananmen) - TankieTube 46:40 Episode 3
death? i knew communism was evil!
le death, c’est moi, Le_Wokisme
Who firebombed that bus?
The evil CCP
Tiananmen Mass-cycleGood un
