• Simulation6@sopuli.xyz
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    1 day ago

    Doesn’t the term come from the Tiananmen Square massacre when the army drove tanks over students?

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      23 hours ago

      this isn’t 1995 man, you can just watch the full video of that not happening anytime you like

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        8 hours ago

        Oh, because we all know that the entire event was caught on video and it was so easy to smuggle film out of china at the time.

        (Context: the video of tank man was hidden in a toilet while the authorities searched the man’s apartment after he was spotted filming from his window).

        But denying massacres of civilians is so in character for someone from .ml, so nobody is surprised, really…