I love how Tankies are so broken that they act as staunch defenders of hypercapitalist countries like Russia and China
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I feel like calling worse countries more capitalist is missing the point. They're bastards. They're seizing territory from and committing atrocities against massive groups of innocent people. It's not a matter of who's getting the money, or what some beardy guys might've thought.
The problem is that tankies are conservatives, in the sense they're tribalists. They have decided these countries are Their Side, so any criticism is unjustifiable persecution, because Their Side can do nothing wrong. Things are right because they do them. Therefore Ukraine must be the devil! and it's their job to shuffle cards into argument-shaped sentences bolstering that conclusion. Objective reality can only make them pick new pretenses, and only sometimes. Logical consistency doesn't even register.
Anyways, these edgelords would get laughed out of any real leftist communities once they started regurgitating agit prop.
Honestly, man, if they did the Hexbear type of behavior they might get punched. It's one thing that they advocate for genocide and excuse war crimes, that I think would get them laughed at or just removed yes. But the sheer level of obnoxiousness I think they would have trouble getting away with in person without some kind of physical reaction, at least someone getting in their face about it.
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I personally have a hard time taking anyone seriously who identifies as a "leftist"
Maybe I'm just uninformed or something
Especially when they excessively say "liberals" this, "liberals" that, like a bunch of MAGA hats. The Tankie mindset is so hypocritical to me that I'll never understand it.
I cringe everytime, the self professed "leftist" say libs in the same way conservatives would. Libs is a catchall term for authotarian supporters, that they apply to people and things contradictory to their beliefs, they might as well say woke.
they probably don't even realize their use of "liberal" is correct, since they absolutely have an issue with socially liberal people, just like the MAGAs.
As an european i find it fascinating how the political landscape in the US lost a whole dimension on the political compass in public discourse. I believe that this "compression" is one of the reasons that the left seems so split - it's like putting too many cats in a box, it creates constant infighting.
I honestly wouldn't be shocked if they started calling things woke
they were discussing tv shows once, and they called SG1 " LIB CENTRIC show"
Also friendly reminder that the main poster and moderator of this community is a POS zio. That antitankie bs is some astroturfing from the genocidal dumbocrats.
Your usernames get dumber and dumber. Keep it up!