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ML goons have zero self-awareness. Pro-isolationism in all cases (but imperializing Tibet is okay)
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this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2025
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"I don't know why people call me a tankie!"
[simps for Chinese imperialism over Tibet because Mao Good]
Also, predictably, the link of them being 'attacked' for defending Biden pulling out of Afghanistan is nothing of the sort.
Bro who the FUCK on Lemmy was upset about pulling out of Afghanistan lmao
These people live in bizarro world
(For what it's worth, I think pulling out of Afghanistan was a clusterfuck, because it was always going to be a clusterfuck because that's what happens when you pull out in the middle of a war. Maybe Biden made it worse in certain ways, maybe Trump tied his hands with certain elements of the deal he made with the Taliban, I honestly don't really know. But regardless, the fact that it was a clusterfuck and did a bunch of damage in the way it was handled and made everyone involved look like morons should always have been an expected part of the proposition of pulling out, which is why no one up until Biden was willing to take the hit to pull the trigger on it and preferred just to keep killing Afghans indefinitely.)
We had to pull out eventually; we couldn't keep propping up the national government forever. But Trump's deal which released some 5,000 veteran Taliban fighters (with the final offensive consisting of no more than 80,000 Taliban fighters in total), and did so without involving the national government in negotiations at all, sealed the fate of post-war Afghanistan. With the Taliban significantly reinforced and the national government humiliated and stripped of what little legitimacy it had by peace negotiations held without its input, there was no other way it was going to go.
That these tankie fucks positively bootlick the Taliban just makes them more repulsive in light of that.