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DepressToImpress
But why the Uzis.
Stylee277
Banksky art! The girl with the balloon is in New Orleans.
Doumdidoum
I remember the day. It was a shock, like the Challenger or 9/11. To this day, I despise China's government and can't trust them.
LlamaLingo
I guess this is supposed to be a powerful image, but the panda with guns is just funny
Outmention
I did not kill them. I did noooot!!! Oh hi Mao!
notdavis
Legit folks who are friends from China now living here believe this was western propaganda.
ExcalNova
Because it says Tiananmen Square and has the chinese flag, if not you would have no clue what is this about.
babygirlzozo
Why don't you ask the kids at Tiananmen Square..
AllForFee
It was horrific. So many killed for no reason. Many killed even though they wanted to leave. Shot in cold blood.
HypoMix
Taylor Swift got into trouble for selling t-shirts in china with her birth year and initials. "TS 89"
joshedwardkahn
It's an issue when 0eople don't know the difference between China not teaching something to China not letting you do things.
happydude22
See what they are doing to the Uyghurs - right now. Unconscionable.
ReLighter
I, an American, traversed Beijing by myself unaware it was the anniversary. Military was everywhere with full auto guns. Very scary.
misspoopsalot
Never forget, the fight for democracy
10CentsGetsYouNuts
Fun Fact: don’t search it online when your there. Fastest way to get the military on you and have your hotel hate you.
MistressLyda
Source? It sounds like something plenty of tourists would do by accident, and then set off Streisand.
10CentsGetsYouNuts
It’s true, that why in a lot of places there’s segregated hotels. Tourist sides and locals sides. Our film crew were in a local side. Triged
Tlaxxil
It doesn't sic the military on you, just kills your internet connection for a while as a slap on the wrist
MFDork
Oh no comrade, you must be referring to May 35th. That didn't happen *blinks help in Morse code*
Owlsdude
What most political analysis on this thread make me think of :
PardusXY
Actually look up the Dunning Kruger Effect.
pfiidude2
Bery interesting npr story where they went to china and asksd younger generations about it. Those who knew what it was (internet) felt uncom
pfiidude2
Fortable discussing it in public.
trasteTh
There - up voted - now i have done my part. Now i feel just as heroic as the kid who laid down in front of those tanks!
igndar
My mom was an academic in China; we were visiting the US when the massacre happened. We’re now US citizens who are free to remember.
winchent
Ah, China. The Dictatorship which is legally not a dictatorship.
kyotra
More an oligarchy, authority belongs to not just the 'president' but divided among different branches (none elected, all Communist Party).
Vysh2
Xi doesn't seem to be wanting to keep the status quo.
kyotra
Well, the problem with their structure is it doesn't stop a cult of personality from taking over (as happened with Mao).
PhobianDarkmoon
Tianamen Is broad and clean And you can’t tell Where the dead have been And you can’t tell What happened then And you can’t speak OfTianamen
PhobianDarkmoon
You must not speak. You must not think. You must not dip Your brush in ink. You must not say What happened then, What happened there.
PhobianDarkmoon
What happened there In Tiananmen. The cruel men Are old and deaf Ready to kill But short of breath And they will die Like other men
PhobianDarkmoon
And they’ll lie in state In Tianamen. They lie in state. They lie in style. Another lie’s Thrown on the pile, Thrown on the pile
PhobianDarkmoon
By the cruel men To cleanse the blood From Tianamen. Truth is a secret. Keep it dark. Keep it dark.
PhobianDarkmoon
In our heart of hearts. Keep it dark Till you know when Truth may return To Tiananmen. Tiananmen Is broad and clean
Trickyboomboom9191
"WHYYYY DON'T YOU AAAASK THE KIDS AT TIANANMEN SQUAAAAARE." Sings Serj Tankian.
sundoggo
WAS FASHION THE REASON
Trickyboomboom9191
WHY THEY WERE THEEEEERE
AmexicanDad
Why they were there?
imgurdmf
im pretty sure you are allowed to... just not publicly or privately... but you still have inside ur head!.... for now
lonyo
The Wikipedia page can be viewed.
Woffenhorst
The US is the same about the Bowling Green massacre. You'll find nothing about it on google.
brujahenforcer
Americans dont remember the battle of melbourne or the battle of brisbane either ... they were massacres but of us troops
othelloinc
Per Wikipedia: "...one Australian soldier was dead and hundreds of Australians and U.S. servicemen had been injured..."
othelloinc
That doesn't sound like a massacre of US troops. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Brisbane
SallyZou
That is the beauty of America.... you can even remember the fake massacres...
JonBy1
Did you try looking?
TheSecretBear
You got me
chunyukuo
No matter how unique a historical or current event in another country is, there's always that one guy breaking out the "it's the same here!"
whitter86
It's all over google
ReverseTrapTsukasa
Found this on Google: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Green_massacre
sparklefarkle
Thank you. I had not heard of it.
SincerePlatypus
'misspoke'
SomeCrazyNerd
To be fair, she was trying to reference a real event and and was probably just gonna infalte it a little for relevance but overstepped.
ReverseTrapTsukasa
Lies
thesixfingerman
Subtle, I wonder how many people will understand
KathyChung
#OnlyAlternativeFactPeopleWillUnderstand
deinfavorit
Care to explain? I'm not American so
Nalianna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Green_massacre
icebalm
Kellyanne Conway made it up during a news interview to justify Trumps muslim travel ban.
ForgotMyOtherAcct
Fuck, that whole thing was only a couple months ago, he really is giving us so much shit people can't keep it straight.
Woffenhorst
No it was last year. He puts out so much bull it distorts reality.
strugglesnuggler
I recognized the name but couldn't place it til I googled it.
whitter86
So what happened
snewsh
there were terrorists arrested at bowling green. conway misspoke and later clarified her massacre statement.
44no44
"Misspoke"? She called it a massacre, and talked about its nonexistent victims, in three separate interviews.
ForgotMyOtherAcct
Nothing. Trump made up an attack to fit his narrative of why we need fewer Muslims.
whitter86
Well if that's the case, it's all over Google it's not covered up
Rip42
Conway/skeletor gaslighting. Made up a fake terrorist attack because trump loves the uneducated.
blainetog
Dehydrated Ann Coulter*
Calicoastin818
Exactly this!
rhcpmuse911
This seems like a clumsy borderline offensive tribute. Why is there a panda duel wielding Uzi's?
Rifneno
It makes sense symbolically. China's military tech is decades behind NATO or Russia.
ILoveFlashlights
Except that panda is the panda from Bad Panda Records
rhcpmuse911
What has a panda and Uzi's got to do with the massacre?
owlest
lol no it's not
Rifneno
Let me guess, you think there's any correlation between what China SAYS they have, and what they actually have?
AstroTibs
Well, a bluff is a correlation.
owlest
prove what you are saying then
AnAccountToPostThis
They have 10 story buildings that just fucking fall over and you think they can compete with any developed country?
Rifneno
⓵China claims to have a real 5th gen fighter, but their fighters have been so shit that when Iran was trying to replace the F-14s they stole
MrAskani
I'm visiting China at the end of the year, and Tianamen Sq is on my list of destinations.
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CocoCoriolis
Don't do this. Don't screw around with China and it's stance on VPNs *while in the country*. They are not afraid to never let you go home.
PineappleBun
I've been there twice about 12 years apart. The air pollution there is no joke, the area just looks hazy when you're walking about
shiyal
I first read that as demonstrations.
IamJustPeachyThankYouVeryMuch
I've been there and it's haunting
traintracker
Don't set ur foot on it. Thousands people die on it 29 years ago.
Willem177
Shame, because it doesn’t exist.
rorhan
When touring the square, someone asked our guide about it. The guide pointed to the hundreds of cameras around us and said, I have children.
Kattnos
Fuck, that's messed up.
SallyZou
Probably not a good idea to protest in any way.... it ain't Kansas
SinStar87
Kansas ain't Kansas, try an unlicensed protest here and you'll wind up in jail.
realusernotabot
Yes. But jail is better than being dead or missing.
SinStar87
To the individual, maybe, but for their cause the result's the same for both.
Shovi
Land of the free, eh? I find it baffling that you need permission to protest...
SinStar87
People hate protesters cause they interfere with their day to day. So laws got passed to require permission so people aren't inconvenienced.
Shovi
That's the point of protests though.But i kinda agree with it because some people will find any little thing to protest in order to shit 1
thefrompleman
just to require permission for the protest? the government can't turn around and say "no you can't protest this" ?
TheNuclearRabbit
For those who don't know, the Tiananmen Square Massacre happened on this day, June 4th, 1989. There were days of violence leading up to 1/
MemedtheStableBoy
2/ it. No one knows how or where the giant panda obtained two uzis, but when the dust settled the people had a new hero. 3/
gaystoner
3/ Their new Giant Giant Panda leader was benevolent...for a time. Things were quite peaceful and prosperous. Until The Great Bamboozle. 4/
TheNuclearRabbit
4/ It was on that day that he ate, shoots, and leaves.
TheNuclearRabbit
1/ it as the PLA converged on the city center. Civilians were turned into pink slime by tanks. Gunfire rang through the streets. They 2/
csracc
You couldn't think of something better then pink slime
Grizzlydave
Pink slime seems a bit dramatic. Are you inferring they were ran over? Or shot with tank shells?
Grizzlydave
I like how I am down voted for asking for more details. nice.
TheNuclearRabbit
Ran over. I have seen some of the gruesome photos, and "pink slime" is not overstating it.
TheNuclearRabbit
2/ gave protesters a chance to leave peacefully from the square. They shot and killed everyone who stayed in the square. Then they 3/
natebitatibetan
That's bullshit.
TheNuclearRabbit
3/ shot and killed everyone who left. The protestors were mostly college students. The CIA says they dont even know if 3000 or 15000 died 4/
TheNuclearRabbit
4/ After the city went on lockdown for cleanup, the famous "Tank man" complained "look what you've done to my city!" Last seen that same day
theredfox64
How come 0 mention of the cult and the leader who fled to America?
PumpkinCrusader
I guess the down votes are chinese accounts or something. Thank you for the information anyway. The past is important to mold the future.
Throrf
So that's how Tubbie custard is made
blainetog
Dude...
MASSIVESPACEMONKEY
As good as a nice dark joke can be....sometimes you gotta read your audience.
ScariestOfButts
tr0lleyjack
Perfect gif for this, dude. +1
callmethelizardqueen
I legit have had people argue w/ me that it wasn't that big of a deal & no one was killed, that's just western lies.
theobstruction
Last I heard, that's Chinese lies. My US education tells me hundreds to thousands died, and it's being covered up China-side.
MuresanDani
Sadly this idea that the west is just as bad or worse is widespread nowadays. Young people, usually. Idiots, almost always.
jcblack3
The west has a great many sins starting in the colonial era, but anyone arguing that they cancel out events like these is an apologist.
callmethelizardqueen
Starting in the colonial era??? Of course pretty much all civilizations have done some really shitty things to live & grow.
SoapyMammaryMasturbation
Same for a bunch of things. They don't like people suggesting that Tibet is occupied, for example. Lot of drama happened at my university...
SoapyMammaryMasturbation
...during the Beijing Olympics, cause we had a lot of Chinese students and student activists were protesting it. The Chinese...
SoapyMammaryMasturbation
...did not like it one bit.
elleyea
They didn’t like the Olympics? Why?
Tassyr
"Did not happen! Nothing happen! They all went on vacation!" -Chinese Government
dghammer
Permanent vacation
Agunslingerborn
Banksy works as usual.
Sharangir
Uhm. It's not a full cover-up. It's just one of those things that if you disagree the gov was justified then that's dissent or even treason.
xSquirrelly
He was quoting Family Guy when Brian and Stewie were touring Germany.
Sharangir
Mhh, should've figured. My brain was not expecting a quote.
Tassyr
I wasn't even intentionally quoting it. It's just the first joke that drifted through my 2:30 AM sleep-deprived brain.
Bokse
Its not true, I did not kill them, it's bullshit! I did naht.
PostmortalCoprophagia
Oh hi Deng Xiaoping
Tassyr
I would have gone with "Oh, hai, Wang."
DeepTrollin
So anyway, how is your sex life?
rhcpmuse911
Is that a beer hall?
norsecelt
Punch was served check with Poland!
redstarling117
Yes. Munich is famous for its historic beer halls
Tassyr
... Dammit, I wasn't even intentionally referencing that.
Feronach
Can you explain it for my friend here?
Tassyr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sacn_bCj8tQ
LurkerOfDarkness
Family guy, Peter asked a German guide about 1939-45, guide said everyone went on vacation.
rhcpmuse911
Uuuummmmmmmmmmm achkually it was Brian who asked that question. You must be embarrassed
BagFullOfMommy
Why are the tanks King Tigers?
Sethesh
Cheaper Chinese 'alternative' to King Tiger you mean?
FlaminGalah
I'm glad to find this comment, first thing I noticed!
MisterLurker
They only look like king tigers, they are clever Chinese knockoffs.
SallyZou
You right Mr L
dennisprager
and why is the panda bigger
shuturdickholster
GRaffted
Why is the Panda using Israeli Uzi's?
enterusernamehere25
iirc they used type 59's during the massacre
bigkingdingaling
You've got the silhouette cards, don't you
TakWriterOfWorlds
So they still have those?
bigkingdingaling
I found a pack this past weekend, cleaning out the garage. Got them in 99 as a NG dragon gunner.
BagFullOfMommy
Nah, just put more hours than I will ever admit into video games.
StrayBullet
Why Israeli made Uzi’s and not Chinese Type 56’s? /s
pantsinabucket
THE JOOZ
ISEESTUPIDPEOPLE
Got tracks = tank. Is rifle shaped = Ak47 usual journalist stuff.
omglandshark
Except most "AK47"s you see are either the AKM or AK74. Forgotten Weapons AK47 mk1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5UFzsnmIlQ
ISEESTUPIDPEOPLE
You think journos care?
omglandshark
Nope, but it seemed like a good time to spread the gospel of Gun Jesus.
mustang2733
kippkopp
Guess the author of the pic couldnt find a Type-59 silhouette and settled with the first tank looking available.
SallyZou
Yes, sorry, I really did not put enough research into my tank selection. I picked it because it was red... will try to do better next time.
iamlamp2
I think it looks great
SallyZou
Will try to connect with my inner tank nerd next time...
TheTearyOnion
MajorGameage
That's probably the most niche heckle of a post I've seen here in a while... clearly that's a Burmese panda not indigenous to the area...
SallyZou
You crack me up !
AnalFistingPornstarLegendWolverine
I don't think any pandas are indigenous to Tienanmen Square. Or other large vertebrate species (homo sapiens excluded) for that matter.
MithridateEupator
Homo Sapiens are not indigenous to China.
AnalFistingPornstarLegendWolverine
*Currently indigenous, I should say.
MajorGameage
I meant indigenous to Myanmar as opposed to China as a whole :)