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Tankies when American presidential elections: "Fuck that, I'm not voting for a lesser evil."
Also tankies: "Yeah, Putin is reactionary, but he opposes US imperialism so we should support him." Or, when they see a centrist: "Pick a side, coward!"
Tankie must not mean anything to you other than an insult against people who hate the Pax Americana.
Russia is more capitalist then America is.
Care to elaborate on that last part?
Tankies when an American presidential election: this is the same liberal kayfabe that's been going on for our entire lives and the best thing we can do is point out what its true function is.
Tankies on Putin: he's just one guy, you're not describing a Tankies because we don't believe in your Great Man Theory fairytales. Feel free to rephrase once you know literally anything about this topic.
On centrists: wrong again Tankies just call centrists reactionaries. Y'all are right wing.
Your only excuse for being this confidently ignorant is if you're 12.
Cry about it. This is what happens when all your analysis is based on idealism and western propaganda.
Putin is a reactionary and we very much dislike modern Russia, however, right now, he poses a threat to western hegemony and Imperialism, the biggest contradiction in the world right now. Solving this contradiction will massively benefit the third world and plunge the empire into a deeper crisis.
Lastly, there’s a massive difference between critical support (for Russia) and complete support (for China). Also, “tankie”… lol
Jackson Hinkledink is not on "the left." He's the only dipshit along with just open white nationalists, fascists, Nazis etc. like Tucker who "support" Putin
Supporting immediate ceasefire and peace, even if it means redrawing lines on a map, is not "supporting" Putin no matter how many times the warmonger neolibs at MSNBC and CNN scream about it.
If your interests align with the military industrial complex, Fox News, CNN, and the status quo politicians who are all center right wing, you should either accept what you are (the fact you seem hostile to leftists/communists is a GIANT red flag on that front. Anti-communism is just Nazism) or, I dunno, analyze your thoughts and figure out why you think endless death and destruction is necessary to prevent lines from changing. Who told you those lines were important and why do they/you believe that?
Democrats are not a lesser evil.
Well, Trump and Biden are not substantially on different sides. They are two faces of the same side. If the parties were on substantially different sides, there would be some kind of actual holding accountable from the one to the other and preventing things from getting worse. Instead, what we get is blame directed at "the left" (a vague amorphous blob buzzword in these situations, similar to "tankie") for wanting anything different from the status quo. The democrats continuously show a near total lack of interest in doing anything about the depravity that they say the republicans are doing, even going so far as to do much the same things (if not worse) but with different PR branding, and then shame people for correctly understanding this means that neither party is meaningfully better.