• Kuori [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    i distinctly remember being 'informed' that "right after this photo, he was disappeared by the secret police and never seen or heard from again!"

    • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Yea that was the version I was "taught", that no one knows who is is or what happened to him and obviously that means the communist party disappeared him

      • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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        1 year ago

        Western media loves to talk about disappearances because you can say anyone has "disappeared" if they've just been out of the public eye for a bit. The audience is led to believe the implication that they were killed or imprisoned at some black site, but since the source never actually said that they technically didn't say anything false, even if they were perfectly fine the whole time.

        Anybody remember that tennis player, Peng Shuai? I had a lib I know irl hit me with it as evidence that China was disappearing dissidents. I mentioned the above to him, and then, sure enough, she got Juche necromancy-ed.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Meanwhile, in America, where the cops kick your door down at 3am and your family doesn't have any idea where you've gone or what happened to you...

          Not to mention the literally millions of undocumented people who get kidnapped and shipped somewhere. Even the government admits it doesn't know what happens to some of them.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        1 year ago

        When really he was just some guy and it was 1989 so it's not like there was social media or anything to identify him.

        • Kuori [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          "whenever tank man isn't on screen, all the other characters should be asking, 'where's tank man?'" but genuinely

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, a bunch of people grabbed him and were like "Dude there is literally shooting a few blocks from here get out of the way of the tanks and get to cover". But they were just people, not evil SEE SEE PEE death spies.

      • Kuori [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        ummm nice try tankie scum but i've seen video footage of the evil dick sucking dungeons of the orient, i know what you communist monsters did to that poor hero angery