and as a way of interacting with thoughts.

Better?

But then, are numbers real?

The journalist argues that the picture is a cover up. I don’t condone it, I point it out.

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The spreading of the picture makes China look better. I originally thought the man was trying to protect students, showing heartless soldiers. But he is talking to leaving soldiers.

If the picture is Chinese propaganda and staged, it stresses that the cruelty on the square was so big that this distraction was necessary.

If it is authentic then what do we see? Soldiers who respect the life of a protester.

Edit: Read NeilBrü@lemmy.world’s comment above.

To clarify, I don’t think that killing the protesters on the square was acceptable.

I don’t condone the murder.

No, not that summary.

(Please excuse that quip)

There is a difference between the usage of the story as explanation of the physical reality and as a way of interacting with the spiritual reality.

Law works because we assume free will while there is not much room for it. Similarly, a society can be constructed by telling more elaborate stories. Those stories don’t have to be true but they can be formed by many hours of critical thought.

It’s the opposite. The negativity of the picture comes from wild associations.

Tanks breaking for a civilian and soldiers not reacting with violence is in itself good.

Tankman was a huge propaganda win for the west. However upholding it in times of wikipedia is silly if the tanks were leaving. The man is not trying to prevent students from being crushed. What’s the message now?

To clarify, I don’t think that killing the protesters on the square was acceptable.

Unless the Chinese are patient and strategic. They need to sway the masses when the opinions of the people count. The bad reputation was no obstacle to people buying from China.

The image is still bad because it is linked to whatever happened on the square. If they point out that it is false, people will ask what happened. If they say nothing, people remember this image.

https://www.lesswrong.com/w/chesterton-s-fence

Very little critical thought went in to the construction of that belief system.

What’s your argument for that?

Check the Wiki page. A Japanese journalist argues that it was staged because he wears an unusual white shirt and it happened in front of the hotel for foreigners, to have pictures without violence about the event.

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Edit: That sounds reasonable to me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man

Staged event theory

Harunobu Kato, a Japanese NHK journalist who covered the Tiananmen Square protests on-site, argues that the incident involving the Tank Man was staged by the Chinese Communist Party.

According to Kato, the Tank Man wore a conspicuously bright white shirt, unusual for a student protester who had supposedly been sleeping in the square for days, and nearby military personnel were also seen wearing white shirts. Despite the square allegedly being fully secured by the military a day earlier, the man walked onto the avenue and blocked a column of tanks for more than three minutes. Nearly twenty tanks lined up behind the lead tank did not attempt to bypass him, and the soldiers made no effort to remove or restrain him, instead allowing him to stand there unimpeded.

In addition, despite the heavy security surrounding the square, the Chinese Communist Party later announced that the Tank Man had “escaped,” an explanation Kato describes as suspicious.

Kato also notes that many foreign journalists, including himself, were staying at the Beijing Hotel, whose windows provided a perfect vantage point from which the famous scene could be recorded. Furthermore, when General Secretary Jiang Zemin was interviewed by CNN in 2000, he stated that the tanks were “humane because they did not kill the young man and stopped.”

At the time, Western media had reported that tanks had run over and killed many students at Tiananmen Square, thus creating a need for the Chinese authorities to counter this perception.

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Wouldn’t that be double jeopardy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_jeopardy

Have you seen the submission?

MN state investigators being sidelined by the FBI

Racism is a problem for poor people to distract them. He doesn’t plan to have poor children.

Even if Trump pardons him?

Everyone likes a strong federal government when it competently handles a pandemic, …

Everybody likes the handling of the pandemic but not the strength of the government. The strength is not evaluated. The strength itself could only be liked if the federal government would have to force the local governments to do the right thing.

The Connection: Use Tailscale.

Be prepared that this can be shut down.

There is no way around talking with politicians and other citizens to make sure that human rights and democracy is not further abandoned.

It’s crazy that workers are not incentivized to eliminate their jobs.

But many things are quietly changing around the world while Americans

But many things are quietly changing around the world by Americans

Trump is not a lone mad man. Consider that the US can have coordinated their steps with western elites. E.g. why else would they have reacted indifferent to Venezuela?