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lowdownlow17 karma
no one has ever shown what it takes to make a Sith Lord from A to Z.
Wouldn't Vader qualify here?
lowdownlow9 karma
My problem with the current status quo on the information regarding the event is that it's completely muddled by with falsities.
As you stated, people in the square left peacefully. Yet, Western reports at the time claimed they were indiscriminately shooting in the square and people were running for their lives. This has been pretty much the story being told in the West since the event.
Ever try posting evidence contradicting this on Reddit?
It took decades and a leak of British cables during the event for a British reporter to admit that he embellished the truth about what happened inside the square.
I am very much aware people died on the blockades due to staunch resistance. This again is muddled by falsities. Tiananmen is always described as a peaceful protest, but the only peaceful area of the protest was the inside of the square. In the blockades, before the "live fire authorization", students were battling it out with soldiers.
Was it peaceful? How does that explain this image and caption where soldiers had to be protected after using non-lethal methods of dispersion?
Pro-democracy protesters link arms to hold back angry crowds from chasing a retreating group of soldiers near the Great Hall of the People on Saturday, June 3, 1989 in Beijing. Protesters were angered by an earlier attack upon students and citizens using tear gas and truncheons. People in the background are atop bosses used as a roadblock. (AP Photo/Mark Avary)
https://www.glamour.com/story/its-the-25-anniversary-of-the (The picture is also used in the above Telegraph article with a similar caption)
Or how the current status quo paints the Chinese government and military as a cold killing machine? There are people who believe they were just wantonly shooting and running people over with tanks regardless of the loss of human lives.
The interviews and documents show that even at the time, few in the military wanted to take direct responsibility for the decision to fire on civilians. Even as troops pressed into Beijing, they were given vague, confusing instructions about what to do, and some commanders sought reassurances that they would not be required to shoot.
I'm not defending China for what happened, I just hate that the current "truth" is so much bullshit.
EDIT: Here's someone in this very thread proving my point.
You compare peaceful protesters with terrorists?
lowdownlow4 karma
Sesame Credit is not the system, Sesame Credit is Alibaba's system. The government is also working with Sesame Credit, but this is not the government's Social Credit system.
lowdownlow170 karma
I'm living in China, I think they're very fucking serious.
China is a power-starved country that has been shifting YOY 10 million people from rural to urban areas for at least the last decade.
Coal would be the cheapest way for them to keep up with their power needs. Instead, they cancelled coal plants and invested more than the US and EU combined into renewables for 2017.
It's also worth noting that something like 20% of their emissions are exports, that allows other nations to minimize their own emissions, this includes solar panel production.
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