He used the term "tankie" unironically... It's over

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    2 months ago

    By that logic, you shouldn't support sending money, guns, and bombs to Ukraine because they're Nazis

    Doesn't matter how many Nazis there are, you don't give them anything

    • trot [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      to be fair the take itself does not imply supporting Ukraine, just that it's silly to believe the war will ever lead to any "denazification" at all, and to be all SMO ZOV GOIDA 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺 because of it.

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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    2 months ago

    All of Europe including Russia has an underground Nazi problem, Ukraine on the other hand is an open Nazi state, quite a difference

    Doesn't take a scholar of fascism to figure this shit out, but libs love playing on legendary mode

  • SpookyGenderCommunist [they/them, she/her]
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    2 months ago

    Side note, but the funniest part of the Ukraine war to me is that Russian neo-Nazi group that sides with Ukraine. Because they feel like Putin is humiliating Russia.

    Cool.

    • plinky [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      I think they have some thoughts on russia's ethnic composition, there were completely bonkers interviews when ukraine first tried to attack with them. So they see ukraine as true slavic aryan state, and russia as corrupted by those non-russians shrug-outta-hecks russia took tartars in like 1500s something, they are just nuts to want slavic state

    • GoodGuyWithACat [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      They were upset that Alexi "Muslims are cockroaches and should be crushed" Nalvany got a trip to the Arctic.

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    Even if this assumption was 100% true, it still makes sense to trust Russian communists to do their part and practice revolutionary defeatism, while we practice revolutionary defeatism here. We can't stop Russian reactionaries from the west, and Russians can't stop western reactionaries by themselves either; so the only thing you can do is not support western reactionaries. It's not that hard.

    Edit: just to clarify I don't actually think Russians should practice revolutionary defeatism because the nature of the SMO is not imperialist, but I'm just saying that even if you supposed that it was, the action that western leftists ought to take remains the same.

  • Gay_Tomato [they/them, it/its]
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    2 months ago

    This guy was a large part of triggering H3H3's latest zionist spiral. Does he think bothsidesing this will get them to stop calling him a tankie?

  • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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    2 months ago

    I think Russia and Ukraine are both bad shrug-outta-hecks

    Ukraine is probably more fascist than Russia is but that honestly barely matters to me. I just think it would be very bad for the world if the Great Satan managed to defeat and subjugate Russia using Ukraine as a proxy.

  • Adkml [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    The anti tankie to nazi pipeline is basically just a giant very short tunnel.

  • Adkml [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    By "just based off popukation" does he just mean Russia has 20x the people and he assumed even distribution.

    Cool, go ahead and show me the russian unit that's explicitly neo Nazi and then about a half dozens pictures of Russian soldiers posing with nazi insignia and we can start seriously having this discussion.

    • Hello_Kitty_enjoyer [none/use name]
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      2 months ago

      By "just based off popukation" does he just mean Russia has 20x the people

      by 20x the population he means he's a spiritual cracker and has never looked at a globe, population statistics, or ethnic distributions

      all mayo countries are empty

  • Angel [any]
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    2 months ago

    To be fair, I semi-unironically have reclaimed "tankie."

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    2 months ago

    "We should be upset about Nazis killing Nazis" and other things only completely brain dead libs believe i-love-not-thinking

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      I don't know how you come to any conclusion about "Both sides have nazis" other than "Let them kill each other." Obviously civilians are getting caught in between (remember early in the war a bunch of Ukrainian nazis went on a murder spree against Roma instead of helping fight Russians?) which is why the war needs to stop.

      But if some nazis kill some other nazis because they can't decide who is whiter and less Slavic than the other, that's a good thing lmao

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    2 months ago

    New guy: Dude who supports mao hating on "tankies"

    • trot [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      Old guy, see: every post-Sino-Soviet split Maoist

      • heggs_bayer
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        2 months ago

        Funnily enough, Mao even agreed with sending the tanks to Hungary despite hating Kruschev's guts and seeing him as the revisionist he was.