• learningduck@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Those who support authoritative regime. I think it's the new commies. Tend to be used on those who are sympathetic to Russia and China.

    • machiabelly [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      The USA has explicit foreign policy doctrine stating that using strongmen dictators is important for anticommunism. The USA supports over 70% of the world's dictators.

      The USA also has the worlds largest prison population and uses them for slave labour.

      The USA has been involved in many genocides over the years.

      Are people who support the USA tankies?

    • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      No, I am a tankie but I don't support any authoritarian regime. I don't support America or the EU for example. I like Cuba. They have laws mandating queer rights, women's right, health care, strong democratic participation.

        • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Around here it is pretty common. Easily. Most of the people who actually ever worked to improve society have been labeled tankies so it is a badge of honor.

    • Freeanotherday [he/him, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      What if I am fully sympathetic towards China out of those two?

      I am sympathetic towards Russian fear of nato expansion but believe Vlad bungled so fucking bad he made things worse then ever at breakneck speeds.

      Am I a tankie.

      • szczuroarturo@programming.dev
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        1 year ago

        Theoriticaly yes. I mean ignoring the russian thing completely. China still has some serious large scale privacy and human rights violations. Alghtough arguably as with 'woke' in reality tankie is a meaningless term used to divide pepole between us and them instead of actually just discussing the actual issues.

        • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          And what are you doing with privacy? We have none here in the US and our lives are not really any worse for it is there? If anything the only time we see any privacy rights is when some one wants to hide how they are hurting us. Corrupt politicians and the like.

          • szczuroarturo@programming.dev
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            1 year ago

            There is definietly more privacy than in china( Not that the issue doesnt exist in Us ,Europe or the rest of the world,but its not as bad ,you can get vpns or messaging apps that will tell the goverment to f* off or simply beacuse they dont collect any relevant data like signal ). Also you still left out massive human rights violations, arguably much more important thing .

            • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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              1 year ago

              Something like half of Chinese people use a VPN and the state censoring western sites Facebook and Twitter is a good thing

            • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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              1 year ago

              Yes there's no privacy in the US, and the US has numerous human rights violations, but China is obvioudly worse cus no freedom, inscrutable asiatics, tank man. Checkmate tankie smuglord

            • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              What rights? To my knowledge all of those claims are made up by our state department to cover our genocide in the middle east and our funding and training far right extremeists.