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Tankies are so weird. I’m sure some of them are true believers, but I get the feeling most of them just want to watch the western world burn and kinda don’t care how it happens.
Well, and then there’s the fact that posts like this always get swarmed by users from .ml and other similar instances (around the time that the eastern hemisphere wakes up) with the message “both sides bad”
Tankies are weird because it's mostly genuinely good ideas of justice and fairness tied to a century old wagon full of some of the worst ideas the world has ever seen. Eventually they get consumed by the bad actor propaganda because of this.
Socialism already had a very successful rebrand but being happy with your house and EV with a social safety net in northern europe it's just too boring for them. Not enough tanks and iconography I guess.
"Both sides bad" is a litmus test. If someone says it unironically it lets me know what IQ range they fall within.
America is bad. Capitalism is bad. American capitalism is a cancer that's literally destroying the world to enrich 1000 of the worst people you've ever heard of. What range do I fall in?
And if you aren't their specific brand of tank you can burn too.
It seems like a lot of them honestly think that if a liar says something, it must be a lie. They realized that our government lies, and immediately flipped everything they thought they knew to the opposite of what they thought it was.
"The US, which suppresses its own citizens, said that Russia, China, and North Korea suppress their own citizens? That must mean they're awesome! Ignore personal accounts from people who live or escaped from there, if the US says it's bad, it must be good, no question!"
Like, yeah, both sides are bad. Suppressing your citizens is bad. We need to be rising up as citizens across the world to take the power back from all dictatorial governments everywhere, not arguing about which one is the worst as if that makes the others better.
I'm sure there's also a population of tankies that don't understand truly what they are saying and are just vaguely repeating talking points from their favorite podcaster/streamer.
It would certainly explain why every argument with a tankie fits into 1 of about 6 of the same arguments with slightly different flavor.
Wayyyyyy too many young-adults tune into Hasan and believe he makes sense as he panders to his twitch chat for profit. I'm more and more convinced that this is Russo/China infiltration attempting to wedge-drive the left and distort reality. There are people on here who will complain about US imperialism on the daily but then turn a complete blind eye to Chinese or Russian atrocities conveniently. One can only conclude they're spreading the kool-aid, or chugging it.
Lmao, you seriously think libs are somehow on left? democrats are literally a centrist to center right party in any sane country and also they are extremely pro capitalist (and so does its 90% base), what is left about that? and stop blaming china and russia for your own incompetence
That's definitely the case with my ex. He used to parrot the "Russia had to invade Ukraine because NATO! It was self defence!" and I'm pretty sure he was just parroting whatever he heard on Joe Rogan and the other far right rabbit holes that led him to.
Do you know how many people of Russian descent the Ukrainian government murdered prior to Russia invading?
Well at least they're your ex.
Oh man, he tried to convince me once that fascism was the best form of government.
I'm hoping he was just parroting whatever nonsense Joe Rogan and his acolytes pushed without really understanding what he was saying.
It's amazing what codependency will make you put up with, but yes, I'm well shot now.
Sounds like he was a fascist, not a tankie.
I don't think you know what a tankie is.
I never said he was a tankie. I don't think he was anything, he just parroted whatever he heard, including the tankie "Russia good because west bad."
The meme is about the overlap between tankies and conservatives, and my ex believed that "drain the swamp" nonsense that maga conservatives believe and didn't like how "left wing" mastodon is. He also believed tankie Russian propaganda. So yes, he pretty much is in the meme.
The west bad, Russia less bad. I don't see how this is controversial. How many unjustifiable wars and how many dead civilians has the west produced in the last 75 years?
The person you are describing is a supporter of fascism, which is the opposite of a "tankie", a far-left view, but both might approve of Russia.
"tankies support fascism"
thats a new one
What 0 political education does to a motherfucker, lol.
Butwhatabout <insert something shitty the US has done that nobody has condoned or even mentioned during the current discussion about China while completely ignoring the discussion about things China is doing>? You don't seem to have any problem with that, huh?