Your argumentation is similar to that of tankies. The US undeniably did shady shit to maintain hegemony over the last century and the whole past 911 thing was an unreasonable fiasco that cost the lives of over a million people.
It’s just that autocracy is no alternative in any form and it’s the biggest enemy of a free world.
Never said US is good, just good to have at our side.
US is bad, but China and Ruzzia is infinitely worse. Like uncomparably worse. If you are under the wing of US and you diasagree, 99.99% chance fuckall happens. If you do the same under the other two, you are jailed or you die.
I don’t blindly defend my state or ally states. Tankies like you do.
Tankie is a pejorative term for authoritarian communists, specifically people who think the systems of the USSR/China are something to aspire to. It is a term used since the 1960s to describe people who supported the USSR in using tanks to squash the Hungarian and Czechoslovak revolutions that aimed to create democratic communist systems.
In practice however, tankies just tend to be anti US / anti West, and will support anything that is opposing them, such as the theocratic regime in Iran which is as far from communistic ideals as humanly possible. For further information, look at the Wikipedia article. If you wish to enter the zoo where we keep them, go to hexbear.net or lemmygrad.ml .
Oh wow, now I understand why I disagree with them so much. Being communist is one thing, but being antidemocratic is a whole other thing. Thanks for the explanation!
Your argumentation is similar to that of tankies. The US undeniably did shady shit to maintain hegemony over the last century and the whole past 911 thing was an unreasonable fiasco that cost the lives of over a million people.
It’s just that autocracy is no alternative in any form and it’s the biggest enemy of a free world.
Never said US is good, just good to have at our side.
US is bad, but China and Ruzzia is infinitely worse. Like uncomparably worse. If you are under the wing of US and you diasagree, 99.99% chance fuckall happens. If you do the same under the other two, you are jailed or you die.
I don’t blindly defend my state or ally states. Tankies like you do.
Not sure why you got downvoted. I don’t know what a tankie is, but the rest is spot on.
Tankie is a pejorative term for authoritarian communists, specifically people who think the systems of the USSR/China are something to aspire to. It is a term used since the 1960s to describe people who supported the USSR in using tanks to squash the Hungarian and Czechoslovak revolutions that aimed to create democratic communist systems.
In practice however, tankies just tend to be anti US / anti West, and will support anything that is opposing them, such as the theocratic regime in Iran which is as far from communistic ideals as humanly possible. For further information, look at the Wikipedia article. If you wish to enter the zoo where we keep them, go to hexbear.net or lemmygrad.ml .
Your last sentence got an actual chuckle out of me.
Oh wow, now I understand why I disagree with them so much. Being communist is one thing, but being antidemocratic is a whole other thing. Thanks for the explanation!
I can’t even see downvotes as I’m on kbin. I think I see the difference between up- and downvotes which should be at +9 at the moment.
Tankies are basically communists that are mainly anti west to the point that they support autocratic countries like china and north Korea.