Glenn Greenwald- tankie

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/tp32hh/tankies_sinking_in_ukraines_muddy_fields_this_war/

    • Shoegazer [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      can’t condemn Russia’s actions without resorting to whataboutism, false equivalence, or highlighting wrongdoing or hypocrisy by the US or some other Western country, then you’re not on the right side.

      ... what? Why is wrong to highlight precedence? This is how the court often argues in favor of someone's innocence or guilt, by looking at the precedence. If defendant A was found not guilty 10 years ago for a crime, and no law has been modified, then defendant B should also be found not guilty if they committed the same exact crime under the same circumstances. That doesn't mean it's just, but we're not the ones deciding the laws; we're just analyzing them.

  • a_fanonist_hexagon [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    [Aaron Mate was] systematically demolished by the refreshingly pugilistic Kyiv Post editor Bohdan Nahaylo, who dismissed him as a “Russian propagandist.”

    wow, such a systematic demolition after Mate laid out a probably pretty good explanation, I didn't watch the video in question

  • CrimsonSage [any]
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    3 years ago

    Liberals have zero ability at functioning in the real world. For them everything us a child's fairy tale.

  • DJMSilver [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    i cant believe an obscure eurocommunist term from the 50s has now become part of the hegemonic liberal discourse.

    • snicker [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      It's an old tactic. Redefine a negative label and attach it to people you don't like. It works great. It gets used all the time to tag the right with derogatory terms, now it's being used on the left. Well, if Glenn Greenwald is a leftist.

  • MaxOS [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    activates late "liberals are going to call leftists hogs by 2023"

    • happybadger [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      2023 socialists: please alleviate the famine you caused by making the most basic foodstuffs affordable under the economic collapse you caused

      2023 liberals: oh so you just want treats.