Today is 37 years since the Tiananmen Massacre
On this day in 1989, the Chinese Communist Party ordered the People's Liberation Army to open fire on its own citizens.
Peaceful pro-democracy students and workers who gathered in Beijing's Tiananmen Square demanding freedom, anti-corruption, and basic human rights were crushed under tanks and gunfire.
The protests began in mid-April 1989, triggered by the death of reformist leader Hu Yaobang. On May 13, students began a hunger strike. Martial law was declared on May 20, but protesters remained peaceful.
In the early hours of June 4, troops advanced with tanks and live ammunition. Soldiers fired on unarmed civilians blocking their path in the streets surrounding the square.
Hundreds to thousands were killed. Thousands more were imprisoned, tortured, or disappeared.
To this day, the Chinese government censors all mention of it, erases it from history books, and threatens anyone who remembers.
Ye tells the crowd at his Turkey concert that he broke the record for the largest ticketed stadium event in history, with 118,000 tickets sold 👀
“I just want to tell y’all, we just broke the record of 118,000, largest stadium performance of all time.”
Ye’s show in Istanbul will be the largest ticketed stadium event in history, beating a record set by Zack Bryan at The Big House in Michigan. Bryan played to 112,485 fans; Ye is expected to sell out the Atatürk Stadium’s maximum capacity configuration of over 120,000 people.
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@kanyewest@YeAboutMine The Stem player was a beautiful device Ye. I still use mine to this day
Would love to see some Yeezy tech products in the future. Or maybe audio, like headphones and speakers
@QuadWoofer Love to Nkenge though. I’m sure he’s a good dude, I saw him in the streams last year, he seems down to earth. It’s just that grand role in the finishing of the album I don’t understand why it didn’t go to an engineer with more experience
@QuadWoofer And it’s a shame because the songs themselves are magnificent, the horrible mixing and poor fidelity just washes over the music and deteriorates it heavily. And since the album dropped I have yet to see a single positive comment on the mixing or fidelity