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Dunking on Tankies from a leftist perspective.
A tankie is someone who defends/supports authoritarian or even totalitarian regimes who call themselves "socialist". The term originated from people supporting the 1956 invasion of Hungary by the Soviet Union. Nowadays they are just terminally online, denying genocides, and falling for totalitarian propaganda and calling such regimes "true democracies". remember to censor usernames when necessary.
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Do they realise they use the same exact excuse Hitler used to occupy czechoslovakia?
No of course not because not a single one of them has a clue what they're talking about, and has never studied history or politics.
To them everything is black and white. You are either an insane tanky or you're an evil Nazi, and there's no other option. There's definitely no normal people, since they see themselves as the normal people.
I think most of it is chronically online 17 year olds that have had their brains so borked by the american two party system and political climate being so volitile. They've grown up in a world where its us vs them, im always right you're always wrong, I can do no wrong and you can do no good, etc. So when they learn that the USA kinda (really) sucks, it fucks with their head and they start thinking "the other side" is right.
Yes, the USA government is grossly corrupt by corporate money and the media is compliant, has taken part in imperialist conquest, and has lied about its own history. But that does not make Russia/China ANY BETTER.
I would rather live in the USA than Russia/China in a heartbeat, even with USA's problems (there are a lot) because at least I can say "Fuck the usa, death to America" without being erased from the timeline by secret police.
It would be interesting to conduct a poll to find out where they're all from. I suspect there aren't for example a lot of German or French Tankies because that would require an impressive amount of self-delusion on their part.
Never underestimate the amount that people can delude themselves, after all there were covid deniers who saw people around them dying from covid and still denied it to the end.
The ability to exist between concepts and except the gray reality of the world seems to be a specialized skill on the Internet that mostly has you hated by both sides....
It's fucking awful how sided people are on topics that they don't even understand because they are massive complex worldly issues. Like most of things are but we really do suck at complex thought as a species.
This is militaristic copy pasta.