If the hostages are returned it’s harder to justify his genocide.

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Yeah, a myth according to which source again?

Your second point literally says exactly that. You’re inching as close to justification as you can while maintaining plausible deniability.

Echos the exact same mentality of holocaust denial claims that the Jews were both a dangerous evil and simultaneously treated with utmost dignity.

At no point did I say the tank man was run over.

I’m not sure many people even claim he was.

You argue both that there was no massacre and that violent force against the protesters was justified if it did happen.

Seems like one is meant to excuse the other if disproven.

But I shall play the smallest violin for those poor unarmed tanks killed by violent protesters and their terrifying grocery bags.

The Chinese state like all states reflects purely the will of the state.

For example, I don’t think slaughtering protesters at Tiananmen Square was reflecting the will of the working class.

What it was reflecting was the will of the state to preserve its own power.

Military personnel have families.

Yeah, the idea is the words are illegal to say but by saying nothing you know what they are protesting.

Absolutely nothing, that was the point.

I think public access to Yemeni arms dealers would be preferable to private access.

If we want to play that game we could point out how much worse it would be with a improvised bomb or chemical weapon.

Good thing these people were murdered in your preferred method.

I’m excited to see it have less content than the original even with this absurd amount of delays.