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Turns out tankies don't care about Muslims when there are boots that need licking (media.kbin.social)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Yeah, but a tankie send me an essay of words with words in them and when I asked for a source they send me a link with words which led to more sites with words on it and when I hit the original source I reached a YouTube video where some dude talking out of his ass about CIA doing the crimes and there are no crimes but when there are it was CIA but there are no other crime doers then Muslims they deserve what is happening to them which is nothing but if then it is CIA.

Amazing.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Obscurantism is a favorite tool of tankies, along with blatant denials of reality and conspiratorial thinking. Almost like they're far-right goons same as any MAGA bootlicker, just painted a slightly different shade of red.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

The thing to remember with all authoritarians. Is that they aren't realistically left or right. They will use whatever means they think they can to maintain control and power. If they think moving in a more socialist direction. Will have people acquiesce and cooperate while still giving them plenty of wealth and power. They will 100% do that. We've seen it in the USSR, we've seen it in China, we've seen it in North Korea. Or they can go capitalist/fascistic as the United States has done for 100 years or so.

Hypocrisy isn't a flaw to them. It is a tool to be used heavily.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

And don't forget all the emojis and gifs! They'll post them at you in droves!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

And only the redscarers mistakenly use CCP its CPC totally not like the CCCP which is bad except when it's good and Putin is the moral successor of the completely justified pograms against the bourjwasee.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Cultural Genocide is wrong. -someone who has been called a tankie alot.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (21 children)

There are certainly people who misuse the term. Only bootlickers for authoritarian regimes painted a thin coat of red are tankies.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh don’t worry. People say a lot of dumb things. I have been called a „atheist communist jew“ once. Followed by „catholic nazi“. Come to think of it, that would make a killer plot for a action movie.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Are they fighting in that movie? Or is it one, incredibly conflicted individual coping with existence? Could be an action flick or introspective philosophy piece

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I was thinking of a time travelling Jean-Claude van Damme who fights against himself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

"Split", but with a chance of being half decent.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (43 children)

At first I thought using the term “tankies” was similar to how rednecks call the left “libs.” Mostly it was because I didn’t understand the term.

Then I asked what it meant.

Once I knew what it meant- I was determined to stay out of it. I didn’t really have a dog in that race as I didn’t have much of an opinion either way.

Then I came here and saw first-hand the sheer lunacy from those people.

I call them tankies now.

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