My 
response to this weapons-grade gish gallop:
Tiananmen square massacre
- The Tian’anmen Square ‘Massacre’: The West’s Most Persuasive, Most Pervasive Lie.
- 1989 Tian’anmen Square riots
- A Note on the Tiananmen Protests
- Images from Tiananmen 1989 the West never shows (NSFW / CW: violence and death)
- ‘Tank Man’: the full footage. Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989
their genocide of the Uighur people
This bullshit never ends, does it?
- https://lemmy.ml/comment/8588979
- A Reddit AMA Claiming To Be A Uyghur Quickly Exposes A CIA Asset Slandering China
their oppression of Hong Kong
Hong Kong was the product of the UK’s century of Chinese oppression, and their 99 year lease on oppressing Hong Kong ended in 1997.
steal Taiwan’s sovereignty
Taiwan is only considered sovereign by eleven countries, most of which are micronations like the Holy See, the Marshall Islands, and Tuvalu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_status_of_Taiwan
was a bigger crime
No idea. I’d never seen it before today myself. Perhaps for bevity’s sake.
if the cut occurs when he’s talking to the tank crew, I remember that going on for several minutes
yeah he stands up from leaning over the hatch in one frame. could’ve been a conversation but the people we need to convince with this will assume they shot him and the rest is fake.
They would be doing that with the uncut video as well though. They’ll just insist it is fake and refuse to watch it the instant they become bored by it. It’s a no win situation with someone who refuses to learn. You show them the long video and they respond with “I’m not watching that fake garbage” you show them the edited down version and they say “it was edited, so clearly it was fake.”
Yup, it’s amazing, and despite having less and less trust in corporate media over the last thirty years, they still won’t accept anything but.
It’s all vibes though, they’re happy to watch “outsider” YouTube brainrot which repeats the same lies as the MSM, but because they’re dressing themselves up as the anti-MSM, hogs are too willing to just believe everything they say.
Having both on hand is probably better. Sharing both at once (here’s a full version and a shorter edited version if you don’t have the time) would be best by far, them refusing to watch a 1 minute edited clip shows their ignorance, and they can’t fall back on the “it’s edited and therefore fake” if the full unedited version is right there.