• pasta [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Love the irony here. Calling out war mongering USA who is slobbering at the idea of sending in the tanks is now "tankie" shit. :stupidpol:

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      The coolest thing in the world is relabeling anti-war sentiment as Tankie-ism.

      It's got that old school War on Terror Energy, back when we used to accuse Quakers of being in league with Saddam Hussein.

        • CTHlurker [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          I'm pretty sure back during The Great War you just called your political opponents hermaphrodites and threw them in jail. And post 1917 it kicked into overdrive, and everyone was suddenly a Bolshevik murderer out to eat a baby or something.

      • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        It’s got that old school War on Terror Energy, back when we used to accuse Quakers of being in league with Saddam Hussein.

        as a dirty gen z child, i keep thinking i've heard the end of the wacky bullshit that happened after 9/11 but there always seems to be some new bullshit about it that makes it even wackier

        • poppy_apocalypse [he/him, any]
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          3 years ago

          The good old days. I remember listening to an interview with the CEO of either Bechtel or Parsons claiming that anyone marching against the invasion was enabling Saddam.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Life sucked before 9/11, but it sucked in very different ways. There's no point trying to explain it. The country went entirely off the deep end in 2001 in so many big ways and subtle ways.

          • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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            3 years ago

            Honestly I am absolutely horrified to imagine a United States that wasn't "off the deep end" 25 years ago

      • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Except even dumber, because they're using a slur that's named for a weapon of war against anti-war people.

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        I took a quick peek at that place and it's like if all the worst misconceptions my chud family has about what communists believe were actually true and we actually were liberals