Slop.

"You're clearly not ready for that conversation."

They will loftly indicate that the time for debate is over etc. etc.

Idk how he thinks Putin is the one nuclear sabre rattling when Trump literally threatens to nuke Iran every other month.

Ah yes, who is more fascist, the country actually fighting it's own bourgeois war, or the country paying and arming everyone else to die in their bourgeois wars? The degree of removal makes it even more sick and twisted, not less.

I'm what you'd call a tankie and I think Putin and Xi are the biggest threat to humanity.

Libs dilute socialist terminology to the point of meaninglessness, but I never thought I would see them do that to the word "Tankie" to the point that they start self-identifying as Tankies.

Look, I'm not an expert on Russia or Ukraine but I'm confused about the point that there is a genocide in Ukraine. Isn't the part of Ukraine that is being destroyed in battle where all the ethnically Russians live? Who is being genocided? Russians?

Do libs just think that every war includes a genocide to dilute the term so the Israeli's have ammunition when people call them out on it?

I'm something of a tankie myself

Is just a hitlerite

Damn they're still going on about Hong Kong huh. Not even 1% of the brutality meted out by cops in the US but whatever I guess they're evil for regaining sovereignty of a port stolen by the British at gunpoint.

i'm just agape libs still refrain to "uyghurs" as if that's just ancient genocide history despite knowing for the past 3 years what a genocide actually looks like.

it's so thoughtless and shameless but yknow they're perfidious orientals, everything bad thing i hear about them must be true! any discussion of US flock cameras is like this too, endless "what are we, chinese?" despite the fact china never developed a flock-like system, or actually had social credit scores. all my grains for a lib capable of critical thinking

Outside of the content which is abhorrent in its own right, I hate how he goes about speaking on this topic:

His choice not to fight

He is not peaceful

He isn't able to stop from knowing

As if President Xi is some emperor or god king reigning over China as opposed to the reality of being an elected politician alongside hundreds of others.

That's our word!

I saw that one the other day. "Tankie" officially has no meaning anymore, holy shit.

That's a fun op. Redefine tankie to mean "far left that support violence" and then use that redefinition to create a crowd of people who claim to be left wing supporting Ukraine, opposing China, supporting everything that benefits the US agenda, etc etc.

What I think this speaks to is the fact it's getting very hard to create fake sections of the marxist left that support american agenda these days. It has become ubiquitous among marxists that anti-imperialism is the primary contradiction, and because of that it has become extremely difficult to split marxists on anything at all. Even marxists that aren't fans of Russia recognise its importance to AES and anti-imperialist projects globally.

There's more unity among marxists these days than I think I've ever seen in my lifetime.

Uyghurs

Job programs and night school?

Hong Kong

Reintegrated according to a treaty signed 99 years prior and left with a ton of autonomy?

Tibet

Freed the slaves?

A tankie is just someone who enjoys violence and here’s why that’s a good thing actually

His choice not to fight does not, however, mean he is peaceful.

Words never did mean anything. See "woke" or countless other terms. Language is not a fixed medium but a field of ideological struggle shaped by material reality. When a term starts to leak into the mainstream discourse it is being transmogrified by bourgeois cultural hegemony.

So yeah, tankie is done. Close the book. But if we need to refer to critical supporters of the USSR's actions in the Hungarian Uprising its not hard to use other more direct words or phrases. Defender of AES. Proletarian internationalist.

The internet has turned this guy's brain into actual soup lmao

Oh god this is so embarassing.

And why do these types always write stuff like it's some epic movie they are living in. So much words, so little of anything else but vibes.

What is funny is that the term "tankie" is effectively a barrier that stops liberals from potentially moving left and this comment pierces holes through this barrier by distorting the commonly accepted meaning of the word (aren't "tankies" supposed to be pro-Russia??)

Combined with the other blatantly horrible and nonsensical comments from the same user it makes me convinced that at least a handful of onlookers on the original post are now more open towards leftism

Xe

Because we should be listening to the geopolitical opinions of the guy who doesn't even know the fucking name of the leader he's talking about.

I really need to avoid interacting with these people my mind is already: "Are these savages salvageable? It's even worth the time to try?"

Oh shit, first they call you a tankie, then they gentrify it I guess?

Actually, I believe I am what italian-american scientists refer to as a "Jackie Aprile Jr". i almost drowned at the penguin exhibit in 3 inches of water.

What did China "do" to Tibet in the minds of these people?