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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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A post on Ask Lemmygrad by user Cyber Ghost titled "What are the reasons why Russia attacked Ukraine?"

Below is the comment by user @cfgaussian reading: "The Nazi Kiev regime attacked the ethnically Russian Donbass for eight years intending to commit genocide in their quest for an ethnically pure Ukraine and Russia finally came to their aid after it became clear that the Minsk agreements were never going to be honored. Also, NATO was turning Ukraine into a hyper militarized threat to the integrity and security of Russia itself. Refusal of the US and Europe to negotiate on a new inclusive security framework, refusal to stop NATO expansion eastward, and the relentless and violent anti-Russian psychosis that has gripped Ukraine since the Maiden coup that triggered a civil war in a country in which half or more of the population are essentially Russian became intolerable."

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Please reupload with the username censored.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Lol, I just blocked that instance. No way I'm looking at commie word puke.🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do they realise they use the same exact excuse Hitler used to occupy czechoslovakia?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

“violent anti-Russian psychosis”? Psychosis? Really?

The majority of the time, I try to understand the perspective of my opponents. Unfortunately, there are times (like now) that I’m afraid attempting to understand will only expose me to hatred, ignorance, and false information. For example, I have no idea what the “Maidan coup” allegedly was, and I refuse to look it up. It might even be a real historical event documented by reputable sources, but I’m not wasting my time finding out. (That isn’t a dare. I don’t want anyone reading this to search it, either.)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like the China fans with Taiwan. 'They actually want to be part of the PRC they just dont know it yet'

'Those ukrainians are basically already Russian so its fine'

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No no, they're ethnically Russian. Just don't ask why they're ethnically Russian.

A hint or two.

There might be a few more reasons why Ukraine really wanted to join a defense alliance against Russia...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know amount of explaining that NATO is a defence alliance seems to to work.

NATO exists because of Russian aggression. If they stopped trying to attack every country touching there borders it would be fine and NATO wouldn't need to exist.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean there's a case to be made that NATO expansionism is bad and does have a destabilizing effect and that trying to isolate the region for what may be mostly historical reasons isn't really helping in the grand scheme of things.

Then Russia goes and threatens to invade Finland or something and it's like "oh yeah, that's why".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I just loved all the people who were going "Russia respects borders and doesn't invade other countries" when they had tried literally the exact same thunder run strategy with Georgia not that long before Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"They had to invade! Ukraine forced them to!"

Great argument.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Isn't this the literal reason the Nazis, as in, the actual Nazis, gave to justify their invasion of Alsace and Lorainne? That their friendly ethnicities were being discriminated there, and that they had to invade to save them?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Do not compare any glorious people's republic to Nazi Germany otherwise you get called a Holocaust denier.

One of the Hexbears spazzed out at me when I said the NKVD, like the Gestapo, did horrific things. I was genuinely confused...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah noticed that one of the spazzers who has too much time on their hands has been running around throwing a link about Holocaust denial around like they found us breaking a class rule and are going to tell a teacher.

They really just want an authority in control to tell them what to do and will side with the bullies since they think that will make the pain stop. Cowards. I get it but they are cowards.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh God you said it. If the name that shall not be named is repeated twice more, thou shalt summon thy horde!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Eh they'll get banned fast

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same with the Sudentland in Czechoslovakia.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

And same with Poland. The nazis dressed up some convicts in German border guard uniforms, then killed them, took photographs of their corpses and used as one of their excuses to attack (they also blamed Poland for murdering German ethnicities in Poland of course).