I apparently skipped level ??? and went straight to believing the Black Book is fascist propaganda. I didn’t realize I was supposed to stan Pol Pot first!
The US State Department and the United Nations are at Tankie Level 45 :che-smile:
of course the socialist US government and communist UN are full of tankies!!! My musket is at the ready to repel them when they inevitably invade my home in Chudtown, Idaho
I have literally never seen anyone defend the Khmer Rouge, ever lol
The Khmer Rouge were defended by the US and got up to $215 million in weapons from them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_United_States_support_for_the_Khmer_Rouge
Ya i know that that's why i can't imagine any tankies defending them lol
Pol Pot wasn't a Marxist, so there will be no Tankies that will defend Pol Pot.
lol why is the last level beyond ???, the last level statement is just objectively true.
TFW you don't take the black book at face value
I think this whole thing is a joke. The way it lays out the 1932 famine/Holodomor is too on the nose to be serious.
This is a situation in which I am happy to defend Chomsky. At the point of writing there was little evidence for some of the most extraordinary claims, claims which were similarly leveled from propaganda channels against socialist regimes in Vietnam and else were - often without a base. Chomsky did alter his opinion based on new sources and contrasting evidence. However the people who do critique Chomsky do it mostly for anti communist reasons, ignore his later writings and at the same time ignore that the USA did support the Red Khmer after the evidence came out for quite a bit.
Let me quote wikipedia to make a point about how it is leveled and against whom it is leveled:
In addition to Chomsky, Porter, and Hildebrand, the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge have also been denied and/or whitewashed by such academics as Marxist scholar Malcolm Caldwell, Laura Summers,[18] Edward S. Herman, and Torben Retbøll.[19]
All I'm saying is that it's very suspicious that the only AES state Chomsky has ever defended was funded by the CIA
To be fair he might have defended Cuba too but I can't recall whether he did or not
you can find them but they're fringe. Usually weirdos who are just dipping their toes in marxism and think the khmer rouge must have been lied about, and then outright weirdo agendaposters there to wreck communism with their terrible takes. You can spot the latter because they're historical revisionists outright, like cherry-picking quotes and parts of documents that support their narrative and usually nothing more substantial to offer if you press them.
Yeah, I've seen a depressingly large number of the first lot. (Though that number is still only in the low double digits, any is really a depressing number).
I think it is as simple as them being idealists. They've "read Pol Pot" or whatever and assume that because he wrote something halfway decent on paper, all the of the actual actions of the Khmer Rouge are irrelevant.
Alternatively they might take the attitude of "the west lies about every other AES, therefore everything bad that happened in Cambodia was also a lie."
I remember seeing like maybe two or three over a course of several years back on reddit.
And that is actually very telling, even on a website where you'll find tons of people who have latched on to the most baby-brained ideologies possible, many of which only really exist in vidyagames, it's exeedingly rare to come across anyone who has anything positive to say about the KR at all.
Some MLMs did even after the news got out, most notably some Gonzalo supporters. But even there not a lot would support him once he threw in with the monarchy.
The ML party here in Norway (AKP-ML) did at the time, but denounced them later
The state department did once upon a time, but that's not a tale the libs will tell you
Some of the new left intellectuals did, such as infamously Noam Chomsky, or Samir Amin.
What level of getting owned by marxists and being salty about it is this guy on
doesn't matter, just take a regular t-shirt, cut off the sleeves and turn it into a tankie top
Pro tip if you're gonna strawman an entire ideology don't tell people thinking landlords should get the wall is one of the most extreme beliefs that group has, you're gonna get the not insane 70% of the population on that side immediately.
you're gonna get the not insane 70% of the population on that side
oh, I don't know, there's a lot of landlord-sympathizers out there. especially in Canada (not that that really matters to non-Canadians)
But what about the mom and pop landlords?
Hey, lookie here! I’ve got a mom and pop wall just for them.
In fact, when Mao started that he wasn't even in charge of a state yet!
Most of the purges started when the ROC retreated and the peasants could do what they wanted without a capitalist state protecting their oppressors
The Communists actually regulated the violence. It would probably have been even worse if they didn't cannel it into trials. Even if those trials were show trials.
if you know an anarchist who doesn't, spoiler, they're probably not an anarchist lmao. Mao got the the thing with the landlords right is a left unity point.
"russian people aren't warmonger creatures"? fucking WILD that thats supposed to be a bad or absurd opinion. someone get these freaks the calipers
Excuse me, "warmongering creatures"? Creatures? Bet this fucker thinks they're not racist, no sireebob.
Except they fucked this up and put some pretty mild beliefs at the top end of the whole scale.
It'd be like if I had a "what level of liberal are you" and level 4800000 was "I overlook deeper philosophical considerations when consuming media I enjoy"
First step can be "blames everything that goes wrong in capitalism on Putler and Chinese bots."
I'm kinda thinking that at this point this could just be every step.
i will never like Khmer Rouge. why would i like a fucking feudalist experiment?
USA backed it and Vietnamese tankies ended it, why would any tanksie support it
China also supported Khmer Rouge and then attacked Vietnam for stopping a genocide so it’s a messy situation that anyone trying to make “tankies” look bad can twist.
But the soviets supported the vietnamese and so the ideology sandwich is complete
When was the last time che shirts were a thing? I swear I've seen more conservatives making fun of che shirts than I have actual unironic che shirts.
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When was the last time che shirts were a thing?
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I did in fact see one last week on campus
The last time i saw one was on a college campus 20 years ago
I think this is a bit. The 1932 famine/Holodomor line is too on the nose, and a couple of others don't sound particularly good faith.
Please vote in the comments
if it's real
if it's a bit written by a commie.it's so hard to distinguish if it's a :LIB: with no self-awareness, since that's kinda the whole thing they do
They think orthodox marxism is just a process of ignoring more and more things. Literally what liberal ideology is built on.
And the idea seems to be that "tankies" are bad because of a series of unconnected Disrespectful statements theyve made about vintage history and geopolitics that have nothing to do with us. No insight to the philosophy just shit that'd make your grandma gasp at the dinner table. So simplistic.
Tankie is a 1950s britbong insult made up by butthurt do-nothings. Dont dignify it anymore, reject it. Dont make it real
I used to think this but then found this website full of beautiful people owning it and wearing it as a badge of honor
Anyway Marx wasn't authoritarian enough I'm an orthodox Englesist
Anyway Marx wasn't authoritarian enough I'm an orthodox Englesist
now imagine this as one of those mafia mobile game ads
level 1 tankie walking with his girlfriend and then he gets beaten up by some guy wearing glasses and his girlfriend leaves him, so he levels up to "khmer rouge supporter" and kills that guy's entire family
indeed. And he was on the Epstein flight logs
violence against landlords doesn't require a state.
