According to the subreddit "tankiejerk" Amy Goodman and Jeremy Corbyn are Tankies now.
Anyone who calls themselves "a leftist" and spends their time punching left at M-Ls and "Tankies" is sus as fuck and almost definitely a lib.
"I'm more left than MLs, that's for sure. They're red fash pretending to be on the left because they like the Soviet aesthetics."
Very weirdly mirrors today’s situation.
Well except the part where it's shitty, capitalist Russia, fighting shitty, capitalist, NATO aligned, fash-infested Ukraine.
Is there anybody worth supporting in this situation really?
no, that’s why I said it “weirdly” mirrors rather than “exactly” mirrors
I think you're being hoist on the petard of the English language - weirdly here can be read as, "It is weird that it mirrors" or "the way in which it is mirrored is weird".
Apparently anyone who blames(or partially blmaes) the current situation on the US/NATO is a tankie.
Even saying "NATO could have prevented this by being even slightly accommodating towards Russia's entirely rational national security concerns" is enough to basically be Stalin to these people.
to be a tankie you have to be anti war the more you're opposed to sending tanks to attack people the tankier it is
Amy Goodman is so anti war it makes me mad at times. But I love DN been listening everyday since 2003. I sent her a love letter about getting into journalism, she sent me a pledge form. She keeps it real.
Hearing about the horrible shit happening in the world every morning when I'm just waking up wore down on me so bad. I probably only made it a couple months.
Democracy now is good, but I don't know if piping that into your brain on the daily is a good thing really (or rather, it wasn't, for me) I found it paralyzing.
Why aren't we calling the libs droneys? I can't be the first person to think of this.
You're not, and I think there's already a subreddit dedicated to it that is actually supposedly pretty based, from what little we've seen here.
But I also spend a lot of time eating marijuana edibles so don't take my word as gospel.
Anyone who calls themselves “a leftist” and spends their time punching left at M-Ls and “Tankies” is sus as fuck and almost definitely a lib.
I'm sure the KPD felt the same way in 1918, some things never change
Amy Goodman bringing Adrian Zenz once a month is being a tankie
yup, democracy now is controlled by the CIA like all US media
Let me find it again, I meant to link but the app reloaded when I went back to it and I'm lazy.
Edit - can't find the post but it was in response to this V*ush video saying Corbyn was repeating Russian talking points for being anti war - https://youtu.be/WACShOlN63w - and people in the comments talk about finding it and that fucking clown via r/tankiejerk, so I'm not going insane and I'm guessing it's been removed or I'm just an idiot who can't search.
Do not watch the video, I skipped to three random parts to check it was the right one and all of them were fucking ridiculous.
