Do these people exist or are they just strawmen? I’ve not really ever encountered so-called “tankies”.
They’re strawmen. If you look at this user’s profile, you see that they’re just a troll, waiting to get banned for going on ML instances and basically begging to be banned so that we can all see “how evil the evil commies truly are”.
Every left leaning person I’ve actually met are against authoritarianism.
And so are “tankies”. It’s just that people are unwilling to have nuanced and complex conversations. And instead of really engaging with different ideologies, a lot of people just result to name calling
You have seen people who are against US imperialism having a wide set of opinions on the conflict. But no communists support Putin. He’s a bigoted reactionary.
You only think that because you’ve never engaged with them and because you’re not used to having nuance in conversations
Do these people exist or are they just strawmen? I’ve not really ever encountered so-called “tankies”.
Every left leaning person I’ve actually met are against authoritarianism.
[email protected] if you want to see what’s been documented
I’m sure you’ll see some here. Supporting Russia and China has been becoming more fashionable on .ml.
https://lemmings.world/post/23482787
show me one
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It was fashionable there before 2023, then when the whole influx came in many outsiders joined and diluted it, now it’s returning
Lemmy is full of tankies. It’s pretty much their personal echo chamber at this point.
Show me one person in here support russia or China. Get your bs out of here
Are you talking specifically in this community or instance? Just go venture into the tankie triad for that nonsense.
i am talking in this community. more so, why would i willing venture in tankieness? just to prove you right? no, that is on you
I have only seen them online. I figure they are trolls or bots.
But I do think that China has a better human rights record than the US and Israel.
They are still evil in how they treat Uyghurs, Tibetans and democracy activists. They definitely use torture on dissidents.
But it’s not that difficult to be better than slavery, genocide, war and colonialism. And the US and Israel also use torture.
So maybe I am the tankie that OP refers to.
They’re strawmen. If you look at this user’s profile, you see that they’re just a troll, waiting to get banned for going on ML instances and basically begging to be banned so that we can all see “how evil the evil commies truly are”.
And so are “tankies”. It’s just that people are unwilling to have nuanced and complex conversations. And instead of really engaging with different ideologies, a lot of people just result to name calling
I’ve seen people defending Russia in their invasion of Ukraine. Russia is under authoritarian control, so I’d qualify them as tankie.
No you haven’t.
You have seen people who are against US imperialism having a wide set of opinions on the conflict. But no communists support Putin. He’s a bigoted reactionary.
You only think that because you’ve never engaged with them and because you’re not used to having nuance in conversations
Edit: Massive typo