• lobelia581@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    I’m less concerned about the specifics of where it happened and how many people died, and more concerned about how military personnel shot live ammunition at citizens.

    According to the Tiananmen Papers, a collection of internal Communist party files, soldiers started using live ammunition at around 10.30pm, after trying and failing to disperse the crowd with tear gas and rubber bullets.

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      7 months ago

      Yes I know it’s crazy right, even the Chinese government doesn’t deny they shot people after at least a dozen police/soliders were killed and immolated and others taken hostage… In a similar situation, I am absolutely sure that the west would not use lethal force…

      I don’t think you are proving the point you think you’re proving.

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        7 months ago

        you’re right, i think we’re in agreement. the side with guns and tanks retaliated against the side with bricks and molotov cocktails by opening fire

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            7 months ago

            Yeah, yeah… This government is shitty, that government is shitty, let’s have a big, shitty government dick swinging contest!

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              7 months ago

              What do you think the state should do when a group, funded with millions of foreign dollars, starts burning and kidnapping police/soldiers?

              If this happened here y’all would be the first to enlist, I guarantee it.