Tankies be like: "This is a great use of taxpayer dollars and its going to a good cause that's sure to benefit the working class!"
this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2026
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Tankies continue to support Russia and China even though they are no longer communist (Russia definitively isn't, and what China has is not exactly communism either).
This is because they never cared about communism they are just angry West totalitarians.
China is just state capitalism.
Tankies, supposedly antifascists, support fascist regimes in China and Russia. It's like they haven't opened their eyes in the last several decades and are stuck back in the cold war.
Consider of all the washing machines that have been "found"!
Already packed and wrapped in a brick building. Ukraine is just great!!
Honest question, where do you see those tankies? Why talk about them here?
Mostly at the instances that end in .ml
This is the answer
Kinda inconsiderate to spread their insanities here.
They literally develop Lemmy, so in this specific case I think it’s good to spread awareness.
Interesting. Where do the main the developers state their support for Russia? I have read this before but I yet to see any proof
If they kept to themselves and didn't pretend to be general-purpose instances, sure
War is a great driver of jobs for the less fortunate. It's nice of the government to give them that opportunity, and pay them as well!
Edit: Another /s that I should have included, because MAGAs are stupid enough to seriously say something like that.
What a naive, sociopathic take.
It is, but it's not MY take, I was just pointing out the idiocy of MAGA, who could be easily persuaded to believe and repeat that nonsense.
So is construction and community building. Better even.
I agree.
I recognize your /s, but for the uninitiated this is called the parable of the broken window and is still a very common misconception.
Where are all the Russian faux concern trolls telling Ukraine to give up and stop sending their men and women to war; while more Russian soldiers die capturing Ukrainian territory at snails pace, which worsens their already dwindling pre-war population, and their economy being constrained by unprecedented sanctions resulting in ever increasing inflation on Russia?
Priorities... Russia has failed as a country, but found out that it can still sabotage the others to not look as bad compared.
Exactly, so nothing that matters (education / healthcare). /s
It's criminal the way that governments treat those items as just annoying things that are drug for one year to the next. They are some of the highest ROI items IF the properly invest in them (for the long term).
Damn, who knew the Russian Federation's budget for education and healthcare was so high!
I suppose they can make at least one of those smaller now :-/
Both if they play it right.
What percentage of that dark money would directly go into Putin's coffers??
There are no “Putins coffers”. He just uses Russian funds directly 😁
Really is Vietnam V2
All because one man is getting old and feels he needs to leave behind an empire before he dies. Fuck the millions who die to fulfil his ambitions.
This could also apply to Trump.
Good! How much have Ukraine and its allies spend? Just wondering
War is great for the Industrial Complex on both sides, so we should always hope for a good war to help the economy. War is Patriotic.
Edit: /S, because I keep forgetting that MAGAs are so ignorant that they'd actually believe that.
You dropped your /s.
These numbers mean nothing. At that level it's monopoly money. They just print more when needed.
To buy tech from China, they need exchangeable currency. To get that, they need to sell products or resources worth something. But their ability to sell that is limited by labour shortage (getting a million men killed or injured + diverting a lot of labour into arms manufacturing) and by resource shortages (Ukrainian "sanctions by drone" and other kinds of sanctions).
War is very expensive because an opponent won't pay money for the goods one delivers them, but the goods are high tech and need to be delivered in high volume.
well, that does not work for import, I don't think they are self-sufficient
Even if that were true, the opportunity cost vs healthcare or education would be unchanged.