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Oh? If I provide proof, will you admit that you're bullshitting, or will you say "No, i-it's just 1 or 2 or 3 or 5 or 10 posters, it doesn't count!"
EDIT: My favorite part of telling when some assmad individual downvotes all of my posts is when I see completely irrelevant and anodyne comments I've made elsewhere downvoted at the same time.
I've seen 2 memes complaining about this and no examples of it. I'm perfectly willing to believe that it has happened - if there's a crazy thought, someone will spout it online.
But it doesn't seem either widespread or representative of the actual beliefs of real humans in the world.
I'm in the same boat and it's not the first time I've seen it happen (with other topics). Multiple memes about the thing, 0 of the thing..
I see it on Lemmy often enough to be annoyed by it. On Reddit, before I left for good, it was an article of faith in tankie-controlled subreddits.
So if it's just a tankie thing why are you accusing broader leftists of it?
It's not just a tankie thing, unless the usage of tankie has expanded since I last checked. Tankie-controlled subreddits were frequented by far more than just tankies. Furthermore, it's not all leftists, or even most leftists I'm accusing of this. My point is that it's bizarre when self-proclaimed leftists do praise the Houthis, precisely because the Houthis are a far-right theocracy.
I didn't realize Houthis being far-right theocrats was such a contentious point to you.
What else were you contending in my comment? That 'tankies' is a narrower term than 'all leftists'? Or that more than tankies frequented tankie-modded subs back on Reddit? Those seem even more unlikely, but if I was wrong, feel free to tell me which of those you were responding to.
I would like to see your proof.
Not because I don’t think you have any, mind you. I’m sure you do. (Or you’ve got like, giant fucking stones.)
I somehow don’t manage to see comments like that and want to know what I’m missing out on.
I am just curious. I look at car accidents even though I know I’m not supposed to.
And like, it’s not just a politeness, or a ‘don’t accidentally run over a first responder’ (unless they’re a cop) thing – a friend told me they once looked at a car accident (involving a motorcycle) and saw a disembodied head and that they will never be the same again.
"The Houthis don't want to kill anyone and they only hate LGBT folk because of The Evil West"
"Houthis are just Legitimate Opposition"
"Houthis really are just misunderstood; besides, they've definitely mellowed out now that they're in power"
Bravely standing together with the Houthis
A large number of comments (all from the same thread, maybe?) I faved seem to have been deleted since the height of discourse on the Houthis a few months ago, and I can't access them anymore. I should've screenshotted them instead of favoriting. If you type 'Houthi' into Hexbear, you'll find plenty of weirdness, though, if your interest is just in seeing the car wreck. Lemmygrad probably you'll get similar but less entertainingly vile results.
EDIT: We even have a volunteer in this very thread
Idk I just had the gif laying around.
Generally, unless you are on lemmygrad or hexbear, this just isn't something that happens.