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
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