Do you actually know what happened at Tiananmen Square?
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You seem to think I'm trying to justify the Tiananmen Square when I'm just putting one particular incident in perspective to how ICE usually acts. Your gross oversimplifcations seem to want to act like whataboutism to how much worse the Tiananmen Square by portraying it into a caricature of "a massive student protest into a slurry that they pushed into the sewers".
It got pretty bad, a lot worse than any particular ICE incident up to date, but in a lot of ways it was served to the people just like ICE is being served up. People in the US should really inform themselves better with nuance, because the nuance is that it's far closer to how ICE is acting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre#Military_action
This is only a year into Trump's second term and it's already this bad. Just look at how long it took Hitler. I'm one of the people that follow several China youtubers, who supports how they can be an outlet for criticism that could not be made any other way in China, but I've gotta say, it has been revealing how much they are willing to ignore what is happening in the US and how illegal the operation against Venezuela was to the point that I now ask how much their bias is influencing them taking about outliers as if they were representative of the whole. The standard you compare against matters.
There were tanks that mowed down people in Tiananmen Square Massacre, but in the infamous particular photo that made Tank Man famous, it really does characterize the restraint of that particular commander and/or driver from their shame, specially because others in the same massacre didn't. It's used to illustrate what difference one instance of opposition can make, but it's also inherently only possible because that tank chose not to make that guy an statistic. The thing is, you are much more likely to get someone in the military to doubt themselves when facing its from an army that made up of the general geographic group of your peers than you are from one specially made to include the most racist, narcissistic, and power-tripping members of it. That's why soldiers get a lot of the post traumatic stress disorder than some of these assholes never will (and neither do I think Jonathan Ross was suffering from it).
Some countries in Europe are starting to, and given what Europe is, that's probably the best they can start doing.
At least because they made sure to show us their hand at their latest sonic weapons and information warfare used to shut down weapons that was used in the Venezuela attack. They would probably go the same route with Europe, trying to behead whatever strategic target is going to get them what they want, because they can't go for a prolonged conflict either.
AI generated slop, ICE would not have stopped, ICE would have ran her over and told you to ignore your lying eyes. Though it certainly puts tank man in perspective, it wasn't just tank man, it was those driving and commanding that tank who still had enough shame to stop and not trample them.
Narcissism: I'm right, me, me me, me me me. Wait, I'm wrong, pity me, me, me me me. How dare you blame me, for being a victim, poor victim me, me, me me me. Lol, someone else, who cares lololol lmao.
Reading comprehension, huh.
Don't worry, Europe sees what you are doing to your own citizens, Europe will.
Old habits die hard for the legacy of the pirates that retired into the slave plantations that would later become part of the US, I guess.
People who want to overthrow a flawed system instead of reforming are the same sort of people who throw away anything at the slightest sign of imperfection. When will you realize that perfection is subjective and that what you are really doing is appealing to your own definition of what qualifies as a "real people-powered movement".
Law, rules, regulations, it all means nothing in the face of power. It’s a LARP.
Funny how you seem to spout the same thing Trump believes. Seems to me the problem is the people treating it as just LARP. Get back to me when you have something more than one liners to replace the libraries full of laws, rules, and regulations you want to throw away. Meanwhile, reforming a flawed system is a more realistic system than a way of thinking infamous for generally devolving into authoritarian regimes and failed states.
Wake up, you are the other side of the same coin propping up Trump.
Point, although they are opposing, but they are opposing by the same rule of law that he is both ignoring and rewriting at the same time. I wonder when they are going to realize they are being stringed along into a manner of opposition that is much easier for the Trump administration to deal with than any actually effective opposition.
Videos? Searching, there is only one of that incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGWwKznwdXw
It's not that clear, the possibility is just what I pierced together from the facts mentioned in https://www.newsweek.com/jonathan-ross-ice-agent-shooting-minneapolis-minnesota-11332093
The article comes with the slant from the prosecutors, which seems to suggest he broke the window and then the driver started to accelerate, at which point during the struggle he used a taser that did strike the driver. However, if someone was struck by a taser I doubt they would be "weaving to shake him lose", they would be convulsing from the shock which would cause a similar effect, including possibly stepping on the accelerator. Considering how much they are lying about Renee Good, I'm not going to give the prosecution's slant much authority except for the core facts.
During the June 2025 operation, Ross got his arm stuck in the window of a vehicle as the driver tried to flee an immigration arrest. He was dragged roughly 100 yards down the street before breaking free. Prosecutors said Ross fired his Taser during the struggle, striking the driver, but the shock failed to stop the vehicle. Ross was taken to a hospital with a “significant cut” to his right arm that required 20 stitches and another wound on his left hand that needed 13 stitches.
The driver later claimed he did not know Ross was a federal agent. A jury rejected that argument last month, convicting him of assaulting a federal officer with a dangerous weapon. Prosecutors said the suspect accelerated after Ross broke a back window to unlock the door, dragging the agent for more than 100 yards while weaving to shake him loose. Ross eventually broke free but suffered severe injuries to his arms and hands. ...
- "Ross broke a back window to unlock the door"
- "Ross fired his Taser during the struggle, striking the driver"
- "He was dragged roughly 100 yards down the street before breaking free."
Like I said, it wouldn’t surprise me if what actually happened was that the moron used the taser and that it caused the driver to compulse and press on the accelerator. That would cause the driver to start convulsing and, regardless of the prosecution's claims, that would cause a lot of the behavior they accuse the driver of. Normally, one might assume that they've already dismissed this possibility, but the US is not living in normal times and under a working system of law.
The court records are probably the best source if you want to dig at it.
It could seem to be a possibility from the perspective of OP. Once they ban any account, they usually flag the rest of accounts. They've been implementing browser fingerprinting to avoid the ease people had switching over to other account by switching IPs and clearing out account information. They are willing and have even encouraged people to have alt accounts, but the moment they piss off the admins, those alts are just "ban evasion".
When they do ban, they don't need much of a reason, they just cite blanket community guidelines, and the only recourse is a review process they can just tell you they reviewed themselves and found they did nothing wrong. It just has to catch their eye in some place they care about. A popular one is protesting or making any comment critical against Israel in the worldnews subreddit.
The admins are willing to do a lot of shitty stuff on the backend - sort of happens when you appoint a CEO who edited user comments without consent. Unlike other CEO's like Elon or Mark, they are much smarter about it and are aware that if they do it en masse they are going to piss people off. That they can be that much more of a calculating psychopath just makes them that much more dangerous in my book.
They've recently shifted from promoting large subreddits into the propaganda bubble slop farms the rest of the social networks are doing. If you want to experience it, join up on some new device and subscribe to a sub like conservative. Sites like reveddit no longer work, you are just asking for it if you main reddit. They even have AI profiling users automatically now. Expect to have a voice, as long as it follows the circlejerk they lead you to follow. Otherwise, expect to be Nosedived between shadow bans, silent comment removals, and the possibility of an eventual ban.
It's crazy to me that in this rush towards a dictatorship, they won't even recognize that people can make mistakes, which is what they could have tried to pass this off. They have to make sure they signal people who do this get complete and absolute immunity, which should be ringing alarm bells for the type of people they are trying to employ, all the while the Republican party is complicit enough to do nothing about it and the state does nothing.
If these assholes can deploy their gestapo under the bullshit reason of immigration, at least bother to come with a bullshit reason of your own to deploy what you do control against them.
Some instances in other platforms don't synchronize user comments in the same way.
Their comments are still removed within the threads, but you can still go to the user page and check them out which makes more sense IMO.Actually, forget that last part, it's likely an artifact of federation due to how other platforms handle whatever is going on in the back end.
"USA stuff" is affecting the whole world right now. You are coming to check out an English based social network for non-"USA stuff". What did you expect?