Seriously. There are also people on Lemmy that think anyone who has sympathy for civilians also support terrorists.

How absolutely fucking brain-dead do you have to be to not understand that killing civilians is wrong? You can hate the rulers of Israel, Hamas, and Hezbollah while simultaneously hoping that Israeli, Palestinian, and Lebanese civilians don't get hurt.

This isn't rocket science.

It doesn't help that they have the emotional maturity of toddlers

Yeah and they also forget that something evil can have elements or components that arent evil. You wont kill every employee of a company because the ceo is evil. You wont kill every palestanian or israeli because the IDF and hamas are terrorist organizations.

I think it is difficult for children to understand nuance like that. Aren't cartoons always very obvious about who is in the right?

You simply side with the weaker side. Losing is a sign of virtue. /s

Reality is a team sport, to some people. The conservative worldview is defined by interpersonal loyalty. There is some rightful order to things, and it's your job to justify and promote that, by stringing together argument-shaped sentences. They think that's all anyone's doing.

And yes, I would call tankies conservatives. The word doesn't refer to right-wing policies. It means "well somebody's gotta be king." They use leftist language, and absorb some leftist motivation, but any of it and all of it will go out the window for the social game of maintaining loyalty.

For opensource communities (the one topic their communities are usually quite popular)

• !linux@programming.dev
• !opensource@programming.dev

That plus hex and lemigrad. It just cleans your feed.

You never know in tankie land. They see Stalin as the great liberator