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I'll worry about dumb ass tankies when they present even a 10% credible threat, till then who cares. Nazis in the bedroom and worried about commies at the door???
Goes on anti-tankie meme community
Posts comment complaining about the post being about tankies on an anti-tankie comm
Accuses others of throwing tantrums when they bothered to comment instead of just moving on from the post
Totally just the OP throwing a tantrum at your comments tho lol. People can actually bother to talk about multiple problems on the internet y'know? And I'd argue meme comms exist for Lemmy and not the outside, and tankies are much, much more common than Nazis on Lemmy.
Considering that tankies playing apologist for Russian imperialism have had a significant effect on European politics in the past three years, and that China is a major power currently committing genocide, I don't know that "Wait until you're in line for the gulag to criticize authoritarians" is all that brilliant an option.
I love that all the responses completely ignore the issue of genocide in China and Ukraine no matter how many times I bring it up, because it's inconvenient to admit that they only acknowledge that condemning some genocides is moral. But anything to bootlick for fascists, I guess.
I get that being anti tankie is your thing, but maybe worry about the wolves that are already ripping you apart instead of the bear that might. China isn't really something you can do anything about, talking online isn't gonna do much when they don't even share our Internet space, and there are literal nazis in charge of the white house but sure let's waste energy on Russian apologists.
I'm sure you have the same exact opinion regarding Palestinian genocide as you do Ukrainian genocide.
Everyone Who Disagrees With Me is a Tankie and all your other favorite hits on Now That's What I Call Bullshit 5! Get it today!
Yeah, na try again buddy. I'm pro Ukraine, pro Palestine, anti authoritarian. But I'm much more concerned with the guy actively throwing people into an El Salvadoran gulag than the possibility of one down the line. Priorities.
I didn't call you a tankie, I accused you of having a hypocritical position with regards to Palestinian and Ukrainian genocide.
Me: "Tankies have had influence on modern European politics the past three years in supporting Russian imperialism and genocide."
You: "Why don't you focus on REAL threats!?"
Ukraine is under attack right now. Palestine is under attack right now.
Criticizing tankies is like criticizing Zionists.
Would you throw a fit over someone who criticized Zionists online, because "There are bigger threats!!!"?
Ah, yes, obviously I am throwing a fit in this case, not the person posting about something then attacking anyone in the comments who has a dissenting opinion. Took a brief perusal of your 10k posts (Jesus fuckin Christ dude) and gee, big surprise: whole lot of anti tankie circle jerking sprinkled in with some classic neoliberalism and so far, pretty silent on nazis. Weird.
Some people have never forgiven communists for the fall of Berlin.
Lord.
Neoliberalism is when you oppose genocide, apparently. And being silent on Nazis is when you run an anti-fascist meme comm and regularly post anti-Nazi and anti-capitalist memes on Political Memes. And regularly post anti-Nazi memes on History Memes.
I ask again, since you conveniently avoided answering, most likely because you realize full well this sinks the reasoning for your entire tantrum:
Here, I'll even help you out, since it seems to be slow going getting this through your skull. What would you think of someone who posted this comment on a pic criticizing Israel:
Keep projecting with your "tantrum" stuff lmfao I posted a one-off comment, you're the terminally online one writing essays for each comment here.
Again, I'm pointing out that you're spending a whole lot of energy on China (no one brought up Russia/Ukraine till you did), who, little reminder: DOES NOT SHARE OUR INTERNET. That one is in caps in the hope of getting through your skull. Like, who are you attempting to reach outside of your little circle jerk? But, yeah, keep up the good fight, I'm sure it's really helpful.
Christ. How many sentences in an essay, again? And how many sentences in your responses, for comparison?
Thanks for acknowledging that your previous "You're AWFULLY SILENT about NAZIS" shit was not only uninformed, but a monumentally stupid way of showing your ass in public.
The comm is called tankiejerk, genius. You came here, not the other way around. Apparently because you have a self-humiliation fetish.
Still waiting on a response to this, by the way:
Dawg I'm not wasting my time replying to each "point" you try to make with your bullshit strawmen lol. At least if I'm railing against zionists it's in a space that someone affected could even possibly see it - literally the only point that matters.
Keep your useless little community here, I'm out: I'll stick to praxis and local organizing, you stick to posting anti-CCP memes where no one under the regime could ever see them.
Funny, because you seemed perfectly content "wasting [your] time" until you were called out on a point that you couldn't refute - namely, that your own logic, as applied here to asspat and play apologist for fascists (curious how often that occurs), would make it verboten to criticize Israel for its ongoing genocide.
Cool, you keep telling genocide supporters that it's okay to support genocide as long as they support it somewhere where the citizens of the PRC can't see it. You can discuss your favorite flavor of boot polish with them while you're at it.
Nvmind after checking your profile you'll not be deported you are fine, you can just look other people being deported for speaking against Palestinian genocide or stuff like that 👍
Given that US imperialism and propaganda machine had a infinite more significant influence on Europe politics than ever had Russian and China, I sure do hope you'll be happy when waiting in line for being deported to El Salvador.
This might be a radical and shocking idea to you, but two things can be bad at the same time.
Yes, really. I'll give you some time to sit down and let that sink in.
Yes and being critics of the country you leave in is very brave and usefull while criticizing another country you never went to and dont know nothing about is totally useless and not brave at all.
A quick look at your post history show what type of person you are 👍
What's your opinion of the ongoing genocide in Palestine and its perpetrators? Neutral, I would guess, from this 'brilliant' IR take?
Wtf does this mean I should be a tanky in your logic. Of course I'm gonna shit on everyone defending or enabling what Israel is doing in Palestine, and in France the wind is shifting but since the massacre of october 7th any critics of Israel in mainstream media is antisemitism. Maybe you havent understood but when refering about your post history I haven't seen any post about Palestine but many post about tankies and how bad are China/Russia.
This you, genius?
Yeah keep playing dumbass rather than acknowlegding the point. Critizicing the ally of you country will be punished. Just look at how many repression there has been in Europe of pro Palestinian voice.
But please keep telling how much change you're making in the world by shitting on Russia/China from Europe you lmao, you guys just love to circlejerk all day this is crazy.