Fuck Tankies
Fuck Tankies
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Analyzing the image, the color depth, the level of detail, the overall quality, I'm pretty sure this meme is CIA funded. Don't know how else you could finance it.
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Obviously those are military grade pixels.
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There are only two places in the world that can make that specific shade of red: Kodak Labs and the CIA.
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Yeah, no way else one could fund a meme like this. There totally aren't Free image editors out there that let you put text on a stock image.
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Yea I mean don't you guys get the nice CIA , comrade XI pays us handsomely. Or at least so I've heard
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I’m pretty sure this meme is CIA funded.
I mean, you joke. But the number of "If you criticize the American Police State, you're a violent bully" posts on every corner of the internet from accounts with those procedurally generated 4-digit suffixes is a wee bit sus.
You see the same shit from anti-Luigi memes, anti-piracy memes, and anti-Linux memes. They just aren't well received.
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If you're going to be a radical leftist, be the "liberalism has betrayed the working class" instead of "daddy Stalin's cum tastes nice 🥵".
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I gotta ask, what exactly is the difference between the Obama "Dronestrikes On Arabs Is Never Wrong" Dickrider Liberal and the Stalinist "driving over Hungarian fascists with your tank is cool af, aktuly" Leftist?
Because I hear a lot about these Far-Left Tankies. But then I see Western so-called Progressives flood their shorts every time we sodomize leadership in Libya with a rusty knife or carpet bomb hospitals in Gaza or unleash another wave of hack mercenaries on Venezuela. Hell, even MacArthur's saturation bombing of the Korean Peninsula gets love. Does anyone actually oppose foreign military interventionism? Or is it just taboo when a leftist military leader does it?
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The first group actually doesn’t really exist AND the group that gets assigned to that category tends to agree that extrajudicial air strikes are bad.
If the first group actually existed in the way they get categorized and imagined they’d be equally as bad, if not worse for being that dumb in a society where they are “allowed” to know better and think differently, vocally.
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Does anyone actually oppose foreign military interventionism?
...Why would you? That's the right thing to do sometimes. We could have totally stayed on the sidelines in WWII in Europe, and only gone to war in the Pacific, because that shit was absolutely not our problem, right?
We should, for instance, be intervening in Myanmar, and in Rojava. We should be protecting the Kurds--esp. since we said we would--from Syria and Turkiye. We should be helping the rebels in Myanmar, since they're just trying to get basic human rights from a dictatorial military regime.
Does that mean that the US is perfect? Absofuckinglutely no. Not even close. Is capitalism great? Nope. Is authoritarian communism better? LOL, no.
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The concept of Liberalism is literally the same as supporting human rights.
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The two of you swapped your L's
"Liberalism" is the right-wing one the OP meant, "liberalism" is the overarching concept that is more commonly called "leftism" these days because of the whole "a party called the Liberals existed and were right wing" thing
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Lol, LMAO even, I'm getting my popcorn! 🍿🍿
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Waiting for the ML trolls to come out of the woodwork complaining about how I'm evil or whatever
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Lol it's already happening, yay for fresh tags xD
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Tankies fr just the worst, they're the number one downside to Lemmy.
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Yeah I agree, tankies are the worst. Fuck tankies!
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All my homies hate tankies.
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Wish the tankies were less coping about human right failures but instead learning to improve from studying them, but I guess the global world order against communism is causing everyone to be their enemy so it's only normal
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There are two issues with human rights.
One is selective enforcement. There are a long list of countries with abysmal human rights records, but it's too strategically convenient or economically essential to look the other way. Whrn was the last time they made a fuss about Jamal Khashoggi? Human rights only gets invoked when sabre-rattling is useful, not as a solid and consistent moral framework.
The other is that it's a "luxury product". Can every country support a modern human-rights model, or does it require a certain level of economic and political stability? It's hard to maintain rule of law amid active insurgency, or if you can't even deploy the bureaucratic state. Once you've gotten past that threshold, will both leaders and the broader population be eager to switch from the system that got them where they are? You've got to convince people that being able to write an anti-government op-ed is more important than security, or the price of eggs. This is a long term soft sell: berating countries for not measuring up to Western standards isn't going to get them to make that choice any faster.
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You have a point, i wonder if Russia could have industrialised as fast if it didn't make use of every labor and resources present
Not to mention that communist societies have been scrutinized, down to every atom, especially because it contrasts fully with capitalism
My personal belief is better reform than revolution, but with an imperialist power like USA and maybe even Russia and China if you count them it is essentially impossible.
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The anticommunism crowd is weaker than its ever been, the problem is Tankies don't support any real communism just dictatorship.
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Nice one
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'Um what about the bad thing america did?? Are you saying that's okay?! You capitalist nazi!'
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Ok, nobody from ml or grad yet.
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world defederates grad. I did see one on the ml version of this post though.
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If my instance is not federated with ml, then I don't see them at all anywhere?
I tried blocking their instances, but I still have to suffer them (even here). I an open to move instances if I can stop seeing those genocidals
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but ... but what about human lefts?
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Speaking of CIA, I sometimes wonder if MKULTRA V2 was ever done and more successfully. Possibly used on people like Fetterman to help serve billionaire backer interests.
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I feel like this meme makes more sense if instead of "Tankies", the character is labeled "Democrats".
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As in Democratic party or as in anti authoritarian?
Ooops, sorry just saw your instance. It's now clear.
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Glad you can turn your brain off so quickly. I bet it helps you sleep. I mean it as: who is an actual greater opponent in reality to "leftists who care about human rights": online "tankies" or Democrats who literally threw an election to Trump, in part over their refusal to stop actively supporting a genocide? Reassess who your real enemies are, and prioritize your battles based on what is actually happening in the world.
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Starting to feel like you also have "lefties" that want progressive policies and don't give a shit about the working class
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Progressive policies are by definition in support of the "working class." Which is a much bigger class than most blue collar workers think.
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Ah, yes, progressive policies like free healthcare, increased minimum wage and wealth taxes don't matter to the working class.
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Unfortunately the right has spent an incredible amount time and money making LGBTQ, DEI, and other "woke" issues the focus of the conversation around progressive politics. It's gotten to the point where anyone who supports broad application of civil rights has to spend all of their time and energy defending that support leaving no time or energy to pronote their economic policies like improved working conditions, better healthcare, or accessible child care.
It's a flood the zone strategy that has worked incredibly well. Particularly in purple districts where Democratic representatives that barely won thier districts see no path to reelection if they continue to support "woke" issues.
They're at the point where it's abandon some social issues and get reelected so they can champion economic issues, or continue to support social issues and lose their seat to a Republican who won't do either. Unfortunately in the real world their are people that have different opinions than ours and so elected officials have to pick their battles.
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