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:
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.
they did it with "commie" and Vietnam. Hell I'm pretty sure they did it with "anarchist" and The Great War.
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.
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
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.
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.
Honestly I am absolutely horrified to imagine a United States that wasn't "off the deep end" 25 years ago
Except even dumber, because they're using a slur that's named for a weapon of war against anti-war people.
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
it has to be a bit
How am I being a chauvinist? I never said anything about women?
of course I know where Ukraine is, I'm a HOI4 player
the CIA knows more than the Ukrainian president
it HAS to
I mean if your goal is to balkanize the USSR, it is.
In HOI4 it also shows the Ukraine's core states, along side Belarus's, resting in not just the USSR, but also eastern Poland's lands, illustrating that Poland historically stole people and their lands from the Soviets during their break away from the crumbling Tsarist Empire in the Russian Civil War.
I think the reasoning here is a western streamer would be less biased than a nation's president because of course western wrecker streamers who live on subscriptions have no biases at all
The streamers income is also from Amazon.
Every subscription also has a portion to Bezos.
The only good streamer is one who has no ads and no subscribers but many viewers.
is this individual's username based on armyhammer? didn't he eat a baby?
Think the username is actually based on the baking soda brand, lol.
I did a CTRL+F of this guy's profile and he has used the word "tankie" 28 times...
TODAY. 28 times today.
He's like u/olivermarkusmalloy at that point. Fighting the red menace only he's smart enough to see.
Man I have no idea what tankie means anymore. I stumbled into a thread about the antiwork meltdown and one person went on a rant about the state of leftist movements that was pretty on point until the end where they were like, "we don't want money being spent on the military and guns like tankies and conservatives want."
I feel like nobody knows what it means.
No, we use that word for actual liberals. Except for me. I'm not a lib.
Correction: so they use tankie in the same way I use the word liberal
"Tankies is to liberals as what "communism" is to reactionaries
I've heard it said tankies want "nothing short of a magical anarchist utopia" so it really means scary leftists.
glad you enjoyed it. I had to deal with a beloved individual saying it to me.
It's when someone thinks something mean and wrong and the wronger it is the tankie-ier it is.
I want to once again remind everyone that we could buy a tank, from Ukraine, and ship it to portland if everyone on the site chips in 20$.
*CIA
probably. CIA has grand narratives. For example“Conspiracy theory’ is a term that strikes fear and anxiety in the hearts of most every public figure, particularly journalists and academics. Since the 1960s the label has become a disciplinary device that has been overwhelmingly effective in defining certain events as off limits to inquiry or debate. Especially in the United States, raising legitimate questions about dubious official narratives destined to inform public opinion (and thereby public policy) is a major thought crime that must be cauterized from the public psyche at all costs… CIA Document 1035-960 played a definitive role in making the ‘conspiracy theory’ term a weapon to be wielded against almost any individual or group calling the government’s increasingly clandestine programs and activities into question.” – From CIA Document 1035-960
I have no doubt that the words authoritarian, crackdown, chilling, and the phrase "at what cost", is being used by the media because an entity (probably the CIA) directed them to do it. IMO "tankie" is a term that is rising. If it were a something you could figuratively bet on like memeeconomy, one would be wise to bet on it being used more to shut down critical thinking.
It's the new Deep State/Fact Checkers/Radio Free clown code for "communist" or "red". A badge of honor.
It doesn't mean anything specifically. People who have no idea what the history of the term is are using it to punch left.
Business Insider, the maoist third worldist paper of record.
No Ukrainian thinks Russia isn't going to invade
Except the president, and the defence minister who has repeatedly downplayed the possibility.
If America wants to fight Russia so bad, square up and leave The Ukraine out.
Washington needs a Gulf of Tonkin and someone who can be threatened in to letting the Air Force fly overhead.
Anti-war activists are just violence cops :brainworms:
That's some ambitious :reddit-logo: brain gaslighting an entire country and telling us all what everyone is simultaneously thinking.
