What would you like to know? Capitalism is just as vile and destructive as any other significant socioeconomic system that we’ve come up with, it most certainly has its fair share of crimes against humanity

No one, lol. I have never once heard that claim until today

He forgot to go pee first

I would argue it does. One extreme wants to say; “Tienanmen Square was a horrible tragedy and China/ Communism is the evilest thing in the world”, likely not true, but also, neither China nor Communism have clean hands. The other extreme wants to say; “Nothing interesting happened with Tienanmen Square and the West/ Capitalism is the evilest thing in the world”, equally unlikely to be true, but also, neither the West or Communism have clean hands. In this case, Occam’s Razor implies that neither of these extremes is reasonable and that the true story is actually some composite of both. I’m not using Occam’s Razor as a form of neutrality, merely as a mechanism for determining when a reasonable conclusion can be made.

Do you think the truth typically lies at the extremes of reason? In my experience Occams Razor holds in almost every situation, especially with controversial topics like this.

Lol

Interesting

Good for you

And yall don’t need to start every interaction by being a massive douchebag and acting like everyone is out get you. The actual language of my question is pretty innocuous (though, perhaps less so given the context of the instance, but still).

If I asked if it was real, I would get answers biased by belief in the events legitimacy. I’m also not going to ask what the origins are as I already know where the image comes from. By very purposely asking such a vague question, I’m openly inviting people answer with the information that they deem important to the context of this image. By asking in this way and in this instance specifically, I have the greatest chance to learn and stumble into some new information. As with all things, there are extremely polarized opinions about Tianamen Square, the truth lies somewhere in the middle.

Apparently a horrible crime that this link isn’t the first I saw, genuine thanks for posting it though.

The easy answer is the Wikipedia article that anyone can simply look up. The real answer I’m looking for is one that comes from alternate perspectives and includes information not-so-easily found in traditional settings, which some of you lovely people have been kind (and open minded) enough to provide.

Your not my dad. I’m in a tank and your not

Nice investigation skill, but sadly not me. Would’ve been a funny coincidence, though.

Also, yes I did watch the video.

Thank you for providing a legitimate, well thought out response instead of just reacting like so many others here. I’ll read through it all here in a bit.

Who says I didn’t watch it, all I ever did was ask for the link after I missed the first comment linking it.

Not trying to demonize anybody here, not sure I even totally understand what a ‘tankie’ is aside from the generally accepted definition (low key a part of why I posted this here, its always best to learn from all perspectives)

The sceenshots are rather helpful, thanks. I’ve never heard of him getting run over, but I’m also not sure I’ve ever seen the part of him walking away either.

I’m not the one being rude here. I am currently working on reading all the comments, I read yours first so I responded to it first. I did not see the video link until after I responded. Cool your jets for sec and let me interact with my own post in my own time. Have a little patience, my friend.

If this were bait, then don’t you think it worked like a charm? Unfortunately for you though, I’m genuinely curious what yall have to say here. I may disagree with some of the opinions, but maybe I can learn something along the way.

So it has, lol. Not the easiest thing in the world to read every notification first, I’ll get through it eventually