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“I’m pretty sure the Tiananmen square massacre was a bigger crime. Not to mention their genocide of the Uighur people, their oppression of Hong Kong, their attempts to steal Taiwan’s sovereignty.” (hexbear.net)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by davel@hexbear.net to c/the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net
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My obama-medal response to this weapons-grade gish gallop:

Tiananmen square massacre

their genocide of the Uighur people

This bullshit never ends, does it?

their oppression of Hong Kong

Hong Kong was the product of the UK’s century of Chinese oppression, and their 99 year lease on oppressing Hong Kong ended in 1997.

steal Taiwan’s sovereignty

Taiwan is only considered sovereign by eleven countries, most of which are micronations like the Holy See, the Marshall Islands, and Tuvalu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_status_of_Taiwan

was a bigger crime

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[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 24 points 3 months ago

What about the sovereignty of Manhattan island

[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago

that "full footage" has at least one cut in it at 1:09-1:10 and idk why that music is there. kinda undermines the point

[-] davel@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago

No idea. I’d never seen it before today myself. Perhaps for bevity’s sake.

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

if the cut occurs when he's talking to the tank crew, I remember that going on for several minutes

[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

yeah he stands up from leaning over the hatch in one frame. could've been a conversation but the people we need to convince with this will assume they shot him and the rest is fake.

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 months ago

They would be doing that with the uncut video as well though. They'll just insist it is fake and refuse to watch it the instant they become bored by it. It's a no win situation with someone who refuses to learn. You show them the long video and they respond with "I'm not watching that fake garbage" you show them the edited down version and they say "it was edited, so clearly it was fake."

[-] davel@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

Yup, it’s amazing, and despite having less and less trust in corporate media over the last thirty years, they still won’t accept anything but.

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

less trust in corporate media over the last thirty years

It's all vibes though, they're happy to watch "outsider" YouTube brainrot which repeats the same lies as the MSM, but because they're dressing themselves up as the anti-MSM, hogs are too willing to just believe everything they say.

[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago

shrug-outta-hecks if it doesn't matter we should be using the unedited one because it exposes them

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Having both on hand is probably better. Sharing both at once (here's a full version and a shorter edited version if you don't have the time) would be best by far, them refusing to watch a 1 minute edited clip shows their ignorance, and they can't fall back on the "it's edited and therefore fake" if the full unedited version is right there.

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