Literally every protest movement that is not explicitly socialist/communist will be hijacked by liberals or fascists.
“Don’t underestimate us liberals, we are so ready to refocus to hating foreigners and getting placated by electoralism!”
Fun fact did you know Serbia recently planned to open a lithium mine that would supply Europe for 90% of it’s demand for some time? I’m sure recent events have nothing to do with this
so embarrassing on so many levels
They oppress you with secret thugs but by golly you’ll beat em fair and square at the ballot box?
pathetic
Reminder that what the students were protesting for was more communism and less liberalization
There were a ton of liberals and harder reactionaries (e.g. Christian zealots) there too, and by the very end that was a disproportionate amount of who remained because the people who didn’t want blood (and whose leadership didn’t want blood) dispersed. The really massive crowds prior to that point did have a lot of communists, though, along with a lot of students who didn’t really have a coherent ideological framework but just rightly opposed corruption.
the vast majority of the student leaders were neoliberals. Remember this was a time after the collapse of the USSR, and the Western Capitalists were making big inroads into China. Only later when the workers joined the movements did it have some Leftist movements, but the leadership was still dominated by the neoliberal students. Many of these student leaders fled to the West and a few became Christian zealots.
Remember this was a time after the collapse of the USSR
Oh yeah, I just meant that there were a lot of people there who were students who weren’t under student leaders, but just were students who were excited by the movement and joined in. I know that the famous clique of student leaders specifically were mainly neoliberal or even Christian zealots, some of whom were trying to cause bloodshed, like Chai Ling. There were actually a couple of student leaders who seemed to be secular true believers and at least one had the personal integrity to, from his new home in the west, object to Chai Ling’s lies (others were too cowardly or sided with her completely).
Well, I don’t know if we have confirmation that Chai Ling was already a Christian zealot, but it would make her actions make a lot more sense.
the more you beat us, the harder we will crush you in the elections
Are they going to use tanks to crush their opponents? Lots of crushing going on here
The real battle is at the ballot box.
BATTLE BOX
when are the brain worms finally gonna die outBut it was only fantasy.
The wall was too high, as you can see.
No matter how he tried, he could not break free,
And the worms ate into his brain.I often wonder if having such a sad album be my absolute favorite makes me an odd person.
Unrelated, my wife and I just saw the popular light-show of this; would recommend.
It is my favourite too! And we are indeed odd, which is obvious, because we are on hexbear.
Have you seen the film, BTW?
Of course :)
the way people like this discuss “history” always comes off as how you would reduce it to explain to a 5 yr old if you didnt want to tell them the truth
“the evil chinese government killed them with tanks. they were protesting corruption and wanted freedom. and that concludes the complete history of china”
HAH
liberals
China used tanks to crush students
lol
