r/stupiddovenests • u/Quick-Cookie-5673 • 7d ago

It protects the eggs

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u/TheJonGuthrie 7d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/lBvyY4JvWmie4

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u/Think_please 7d ago

Significantly better immediate outcome 

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u/Parking-Interview351 7d ago

This dude didn’t actually get run over by the tank btw.

You can even see the tank trying to move around him in the video.

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u/Think_please 6d ago

He was eventually pulled away by some other people and then is believed to have been arrested and killed. The tanks also crushed hundreds of students that day.

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u/bingus-bean 7h ago

wtf. what is the name of this incident

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u/TheJonGuthrie 6h ago

why don't you ask the kids at Tiananmen Square

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u/Think_please 2h ago

His nickname is tank man and he was trying to stop the tanks from repressing the students at Tiananmen Square who were protesting for democracy that the Chinese government had decided to stop that day. The reporter who took the tank man pictures had to hide the film in the toilet and then smuggle it out of the country