Pretty sure its not, just restating this because this is the second time I’ve see this in the thread. That person has an account by the same name here.
The other one was me also, but please look at my response. I’m not talking about the OP of the linked thread, I’m talking about a commenter in a directly linked comment who specifically stated they were going to come here and troll us with this image.
25 minutes ago before you made this comment actually. What’s that about? Why don’t you engage with material provided yo you? Almost like you’re not actually curious.
You’ve gotten barely any notifications and you decide to engage in discussion against something before you’ve read them. That’s not exhibiting curiosity. That’s being a debatelord. Responding exclusively to this one is also very telling.
The video is barely 2.5 minutes long. I thought you were curious, yet now you decide to put off answers to your question so that you can continue making pointless comments.
This is uncivil, rude and honestly poor behaviour. I hope you rectify yourself.
Operating on the assumption you’re just a debatebro, why do libs like you give this one event, where the narrative is so twisted it’s visible for anyone who looks the least bit into it, so much weight, when the United states police regularly run over protesters? This picture is used to illustrate a systemic critique of China, yet these events occur commonly in the west and people like you treat it like it’s suddenly some complicated situation.
Edit: On the off chance you’re genuine, we had someone much kinder than you stumble in a few days ago with the same questions. I will point you to comments from there to give you reading material On Ukraine
And on tianamen and the Uyghurs
Idk if this is correct but I think of smuglord as having come from the emoji title, which is one of the best on the site. I mean, what’s more accurate than ?
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.
You are being rude in the way I’ve pointed out. Engaging in this discussion, but ignoring points you dislike is rude. You are doing this in this very response here.
By being rude you appear as a dipshit. You therefore receive uncivil attitude back. If you were less condescending about your way of interaction, then you would receive kinder responses. You are not owed any cool jets, when you yourself are behaving poorly.
Go look thru the linked thread to learn how you actually behave in a civil chat.
Let me engage in my own time.
“Your post” lol buddy it’s a public forum and the block button is right there. Let me point out how you’re being obvious in my own time.
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 feel like libs love to do this. They’re vague, but from context, everyone knows what they’re implying. When you prove them wrong they pretend they didn’t mean literally anything “just a joke bro.”
Why would this picture possibly be an important truth to power anti-China image if you think the guy in the photo was fine and the conflict got diffused after a brief chat with the tank operator?
Let us look at a specific example. A claim like “There’s cultural genocide of Uyghurs in Xinjiang” is simply unreal to most Westerners, close to pure gibberish. The words really refer to existing entities and geographies, but Westerners aren’t familiar with them. The actual content of the utterance as it spills out is no more complex or nuanced than “China Bad,” and the elementary mistakes people make when they write out statements of “solidarity” make that much clear. This is not a complaint that these people have not studied China enough — there’s no reason to expect them to study China, and retrospectively I think to some extent it was a mistake to personally have spent so much time trying to teach them. It’s instead an acknowledgment that they are eagerly wielding the accusation like a club, that they are in reality unconcerned with its truth-content, because it serves a social purpose.
What is this social purpose? Westerners want to believe that other places are worse off, exactly how Americans and Canadians perennially flatter themselves by attacking each others’ decaying health-care systems, or how a divorcee might fantasize that their ex-lover’s blooming love-life is secretly miserable. This kind of “crab mentality” is actually a sophisticated coping mechanism suitable for an environment in which no other course of action seems viable. Cognitive dissonance, the kind that eventually spurs one into becoming intolerant of the status quo and into action, is initially unpleasant and scary for everybody. In this way, we can begin to understand the benefit that “victims” of propaganda derive from carelessly “spreading awareness.” Their efforts feed an ambient propaganda haze of controversy and scandal and wariness that suffocates any painful optimism (or jealousy) and ensuing sense of duty one might otherwise feel from a casual glance at the amazing things happening elsewhere. People aren’t “falling” for atrocity propaganda; they’re eagerly seeking it out, like a soothing balm.
Lmao two day old Reddit refugee here to own us but they don’t know there’s a video of him walking away
I’m like, 90/10 on them being this loser: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/21641836/12769312
EDIT: just to clarify, I’m 100% sure OP is not the OP of the linked thread, I’m fairly certain they’re the commenter in the linked comment.
lmao incredibly pathetic behavior
Pretty sure its not, just restating this because this is the second time I’ve see this in the thread. That person has an account by the same name here.The other one was me also, but please look at my response. I’m not talking about the OP of the linked thread, I’m talking about a commenter in a directly linked comment who specifically stated they were going to come here and troll us with this image.
Oh LOL yes never mind I think your right.
No worries!
I’d love to see the video then
You've already gotten it linked
25 minutes ago before you made this comment actually. What’s that about? Why don’t you engage with material provided yo you? Almost like you’re not actually curious.
So it has, lol. Not the easiest thing in the world to read every notification first, I’ll get through it eventually
You’ve gotten barely any notifications and you decide to engage in discussion against something before you’ve read them. That’s not exhibiting curiosity. That’s being a debatelord. Responding exclusively to this one is also very telling.
The video is barely 2.5 minutes long. I thought you were curious, yet now you decide to put off answers to your question so that you can continue making pointless comments.
This is uncivil, rude and honestly poor behaviour. I hope you rectify yourself.
Operating on the assumption you’re just a debatebro, why do libs like you give this one event, where the narrative is so twisted it’s visible for anyone who looks the least bit into it, so much weight, when the United states police regularly run over protesters? This picture is used to illustrate a systemic critique of China, yet these events occur commonly in the west and people like you treat it like it’s suddenly some complicated situation.
Edit: On the off chance you’re genuine, we had someone much kinder than you stumble in a few days ago with the same questions. I will point you to comments from there to give you reading material
On Ukraine
And on tianamen and the Uyghurs
I agree with you but also I wonder if someone who just wanders onto this website knows what a “debatelord” is lol. We are so steeped in our own lingo
Yeah someone also used “natopedia” lol, we need to do some self-crit about being normal online (when appropriate)
lmao you’re totally right and I’m so used to it that I didn’t even clock that one. god maybe I need to
have a good day everyone
I
ed all day and it was fuckin awesome
I feel like debatelord is pretty self-evident, but there’s other ones like smuglord where I agree. Gonna change it to debatebro though
Idk if this is correct but I think of smuglord as having come from the emoji title, which is one of the best on the site. I mean, what’s more accurate than
?
It’s peak
“Debatebro” is used pretty commonly outside of here. I think “debatelord” is close enough most people will get it.
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.
You are being rude in the way I’ve pointed out. Engaging in this discussion, but ignoring points you dislike is rude. You are doing this in this very response here.
By being rude you appear as a dipshit. You therefore receive uncivil attitude back. If you were less condescending about your way of interaction, then you would receive kinder responses. You are not owed any cool jets, when you yourself are behaving poorly.
Go look thru the linked thread to learn how you actually behave in a civil chat.
“Your post” lol buddy it’s a public forum and the block button is right there. Let me point out how you’re being obvious in my own time.
You’ve been linked it but if you can’t watch it now, here’s some screenshots:
Climbing inside the tank to have a conversation:
Walking away afterwards:
The real question is, who told you that he got run over? 🤔
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.
who told you he was run over ?
No one, lol. I have never once heard that claim until today
If that’s true, why post this? What is this image supposed to mean, to you?
I feel like libs love to do this. They’re vague, but from context, everyone knows what they’re implying. When you prove them wrong they pretend they didn’t mean literally anything “just a joke bro.”
Why would this picture possibly be an important truth to power anti-China image if you think the guy in the photo was fine and the conflict got diffused after a brief chat with the tank operator?
Can’t have your position undermined if you never take a position in the first place
Let us look at a specific example. A claim like “There’s cultural genocide of Uyghurs in Xinjiang” is simply unreal to most Westerners, close to pure gibberish. The words really refer to existing entities and geographies, but Westerners aren’t familiar with them. The actual content of the utterance as it spills out is no more complex or nuanced than “China Bad,” and the elementary mistakes people make when they write out statements of “solidarity” make that much clear. This is not a complaint that these people have not studied China enough — there’s no reason to expect them to study China, and retrospectively I think to some extent it was a mistake to personally have spent so much time trying to teach them. It’s instead an acknowledgment that they are eagerly wielding the accusation like a club, that they are in reality unconcerned with its truth-content, because it serves a social purpose.
What is this social purpose? Westerners want to believe that other places are worse off, exactly how Americans and Canadians perennially flatter themselves by attacking each others’ decaying health-care systems, or how a divorcee might fantasize that their ex-lover’s blooming love-life is secretly miserable. This kind of “crab mentality” is actually a sophisticated coping mechanism suitable for an environment in which no other course of action seems viable. Cognitive dissonance, the kind that eventually spurs one into becoming intolerant of the status quo and into action, is initially unpleasant and scary for everybody. In this way, we can begin to understand the benefit that “victims” of propaganda derive from carelessly “spreading awareness.” Their efforts feed an ambient propaganda haze of controversy and scandal and wariness that suffocates any painful optimism (or jealousy) and ensuing sense of duty one might otherwise feel from a casual glance at the amazing things happening elsewhere. People aren’t “falling” for atrocity propaganda; they’re eagerly seeking it out, like a soothing balm.
https://x.com/darlingube/status/1829199052808007823