They (the tankies) were our allies during the Iraq War, so it may come as a shock seeing them become pathetic apologists for Vladimir Putin’s ambitions to reconstitute the Soviet empire.
journalists stop making up fetid diarrhea challenge (impossible)
Lol what, they called us saddam lovers back then
Literally anyone that wasn't wholly consumed by bloodlust was called an enemy of the state.
I mean I am, but still.
journalists using their outlet to make up a guy to get mad at
Anyone who supported the Iraq War, you have won a prize. Please report to the nearest gulag to collect your free bike.
Lol "by daily kos staff" so apparently nobody even wanted to put their name on this garbage
They didn't tweet it either so there's something weird going on with it. They tweet literally everything else they post.
That won't save them if any comrades here with twitter accounts want to post it for them, @ them and proceed to dunk
"Kos" is the byline. it's by Markos Moulitsas, the site's founder.
Oh, damn... Does he write a lot or is this a special occasion where he has to write the piece himself because nobody else has the ideological discipline?
he contributes frequently, and it looks like he's been on the Ukraine beat for a while now. idk i don't read Daily Kos
Tankies stop being right about everything challenge (impossible) :gigachad-hd:
that's because the term tankie is just a slur against correct takes at this point
You’ve seen tankies around. They’re the ones who believe that all the world’s evils are the product of imperialism
:yes-comm:
These comments holy shit :brainworms:
I’m a peace-loving antiwar old hippie gal (yeah, I like granola, ok?), but I see the need for a strong military (I’m from a total military family except for me, including half-bro/sis, mum, dad, cousins, grandparents on both sides).
The MIC is also the best rationale for just tax policy in the US
Sounds like complete bullshit this person tells themselves. An identity they've invented but don't actually have in any meaningful actual way.
Americans prefacing their bloodthirst is always funny to me. "Listen, I'm as leftist liberal as they come. I hug trees and I drive a Tesla. I was born with a birthmark shaped like Tom Perez. I eat extra vegan tofu. But we really gotta give cops more guns to defend American values."
“I’m as left as it gets” always precedes the most heinous rightwing shit spouted by a centrist lib
That, or they are so naive they really think nothing exists to the left of them (since communism is actually rightwing authoritarianism or whatever)
overton window is bullshit. these people support imperialism full stop.
Can confirm, was raised by and grew up around them. Thankfully my parents weren't total shit although my mom is basically full blown Qanon brain now.
At least they taught me all about the crimes of this horrible country. The new age vaguely left white person to Qanon pipeline is very real though.
My dad was a hippie in his youth and today he can best be described as a tradcath strasserite.
This person’s only rebellion was smoking weed and wearing a nirvana shirt during a Christmas party
you can only be anti war if you oppose every specific war not just the vague concept of war
Nice example of how hippie aesthetics is just that, aesthetics. If you're really generous to them hippies are maybe less openly racist and homophobic than average but that's about it. Smoking weed and eating granola does not turn you into a friend of the proletariat.
We are simultaneously a tiny fringe group of radical weirdos but also a huge loud rabble constantly derailing well-intentioned US foreign policy with the raw power our hectoring unreasonable criticism.
Because their activists are paid and funded part of the threat is that any increase in the number of tankies means that they need to increase the size of their paid for base of activists. If they don't, there is a real threat.
One of the key things we discuss behind the scenes over here in the UK is how Starmer showing up to a random town in the UK would get like 40-100 people turnout whereas we could send Corbyn literally anywhere in the UK and have thousands show up to hear him, that doesn't just happen because people like him, it happens because our local activists work their asses off.
A paid for base of activists is insignificant compared to an activated base of unpaid but ideologically dedicated people. They will work their asses off for no pay to make sure thousands turn out for Jez because people believe in him and it activates them.
This is a similar situation with the growing fear of tankies who will do the same thing when you activate them properly. Utterly dedicated people who will spend all day everyday on the cause when it's right. That costs the bougies billions to achieve with money and there's a real threat in it because it will cost them a fortune to fight or actually achieve something eventually.
Damn, a really good writeup, saved and :gold-communist:-pilled
Starmer showing up to a random town in the UK would get like 40-100 people turnout
I doubt that I'd say more like 3 people and one of them is there trying to buy chips
It really depends on how much they pay staff to work on it. And that's the point, they have to pay staff to work on it or fuck all will show up.
Thousands will show up to Corbyn because people who do not have to be paid a penny will throw their heart and soul at it to make it happen.
This is the same problem the bougies face with the growing number of tankies. It costs them a fucking fortune to equal what we do for free. Every single new tankie created costs them more and more. Eventually there is also a point at which more money will not actually successfully counter us due to diminishing returns.
"And the only country capable of imperialism is the United States" we hate Britain too
I'm also all hopped up on :france-cool: after the Ortolan thread tbh (also in general, French imperialism in Africa and Haiti is disgusting), but I live in :amerikkka: so of course I hate it the most.
France is such a living contradiction. They're so imperialist and also so good at internal leftist-inspired revolution.
Northern Ireland is the last possession they have, and there's a good chance that they're going to lose NI, Scotland, Wales, and, god willing, Cornwall.
They are part of the anglo-American empire. They do imperialism the same way Americans do, participate in the same sanctions, the same wars, the same neo-colonial economic domination.
International Dirty money clearing house.
Can't get more imperialist than literally counting the imperial surplus.
Tankies being burdened with the weight of being correct all the time
The real burden is doing actual research which is why no one else does it lmao
Ahh yes. Noted authoritarian communist Glenn Greenwald.
I wonder why they didn't call out Kissinger for his tankie behavior?
Living in the timeline that liberals and chuds will likely start calling Kissinger a communist 🤮
Tankie is already used widely online to the point libs are saying it now, which is probably the only audience for this piece: Libs mad at things they saw on twitter. That's all the article is about too.
i've also been wondering why terms like Stalinist or Leninist aren't thrown around as much anymore. Probably because they're too specific and are tied to very coherent political stances. Tankie already means anything, it doesn't matter where the term comes from. Tankie is when you say something I don't like.
Also because that might actually get people looking into what those people actually wrote. Can't have that.
Tankie is already used widely online to the point libs are saying it now
It's always been libs that said it
The tankies demoralized the Ukrainian people and that’s why they’re losing. I propose we start charging tankies for treason starting with Marco Rubio and Bernie Sanders.
I don't think the libs have the balls to really crank up the HUAC again, but the fash will.
I can’t believe how all powerful we are. We really pull all the strings
Remember when we joked about Tankie being used in msm? Getting pretty close here...
