I remember this being posted on 
a few times and is mysteriously being removed.
I am only half joking, btw.
Its that damned Chinese censorship everyone keeps talking about
The reason so many Americans believe he was run over is because they know if this happened in the US he would have been flattened right away.
Like this?
Really need the US anthem playing over the American clips to really hammer it home
During the summer of 2020 I saw at least one new video a week of US cops running over protestors with zero hesitation
And the majority of Americans would say he deserved it for blocking traffic.
Americans don’t give a flying fuck about freedom or protesting or whatever. They only pretend to when it’s politically convenient.
It's crazy how the initial meaning of the photo has been so mutilated up to now. To my knowledge the entire point of the photo was to show the compassion for life felt by two people on opposite sides of a gun. The tank's refusal to kill the man representative of a positive aspect of humanity during conflict.
I was going to make the same comment. What's lost in the distortion of image for propaganda, and even in the discussion of what really happened at Tiananmen is this:
It's an incredibly human moment. Amidst days of protests, lynchings, shootings, beatings, fire and violence two people had a conversation. We don't know what was said or who they were. They could have screamed insults at each other, pleaded to see each other's point of view, or just talked about crazy this had all gotten. But they had a conversation, as two people and the result was that everyone lived.
NO NO 1,000,000 CHINESE DEMOCRATS WERE KILLED BY THAT TANK. I LEARNT THAT FROM MY 10TH GRADE WORLD HISTORY COURSE TAUGHT OUT OF A BOOK WRITTEN IN 1996.
You left out the 5 minutes at the end where he returns, fist fights the tank, wins, and goes on to found Radio Free Asia.
I wish Eugene Dabs' channel was still around, I could link to the Yankees vs Tankies video (which I have saved somewhere but I can't find the damn thing).
You mean this one? https://streamable.com/unjnw9
That's good, but the Eugene Dabs one was a side-by-side, and the Yankee example was some soldiers in either Iraq or Afghanistan reveling in running a tank over some old man's work vehicle because he was "rude" to them or something.
"tHaT's WhAt YoU gEt WhEn YoU lOoT"
Breadtube if it didn't suck.
Post videos you genuinely enjoy and want to share, duh. Celebrate the diversity of interests shared by chapochatters by posting a deep dive into Venetian kelp farming, I dunno. Also media criticism, bite-sized versions of left-wing theory, all the stuff you expected. But I am curious about that kelp farming thing now that you mentioned it.
Low effort / spam videos might be removed, especially weeb content.
There is a cytube that you can paste videos into and watch with whoever happens to be around. It's open submission unless there's something important to commandeer it with at the time.
A weekly watch party happens every Saturday (Sunday down under), with video nominations Saturday-Monday, voting Monday-Thursday. See the pin for whatever stage it's currently in.