Also i love the reddit lemmy posting culture, they read my post, mald about it, go to my profile and downvote everything there, even the posts about klingons lmao.
Tankie is when you’re to the left of King Louis XIV
proceeds to try to find footage of king running over civilians in a tank
It’s like I’ve started saying, “Tankie is when the leftist does stuff, and it’s more tankie the more stuff it does, and if it does a real lotta stuff, it’s redfash”
Also fucking “refute Tiananmen 1989”
I know I shouldn’t be prescriptive, because some people do use “refute” to mean “deny” and I understand what this person is trying to say and that’s what matters, but it’s still like… Pretty funny for someone to use a word whose more accepted definition is “to prove false”, and calling that a bad thing.
Maybe I should publish my source summary for Tiananmen. It’s kinda damning for how much hot air has been wasted on it.
You might as well.
It will be a whole afternoon to stitch into something readable. Probably under something like “Baby’s First Critical Source Reading: Tiananmen Square '89”.
I do need to fire off an email to an old journalist here who was there! (and largely corroborates my reading).
I love that “refuting” the western narrative makes someone an evil tankie. Education is anathema to liberalism.
The real horseshoe, where everyone’s a tankie, even the centrists.
Do you think this is the type of idiot who doesn’t realize this includes Obama and Biden or the type of idiot who actually thinks they’re tankies?
This is clearly the murican liberal idiot who think entire left everywhere is a shitlib like him.
As noted in that famed tankie work, Combat Illiberalism by Gordon G. Mao.
