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Lightbulb factory, right? Or are you talking about a different occasion?
Or maybe it was a lightbulb factory they said was a power plant, I don't exactly remember
This is what happens when left-ish libs learn about the word tankie from neolibs.
At this rate, a tankie will soon be anyone who opposed the Iraq War. I got called a tankie for expressing skepticism over the Libyan intervention
People literally demanding to send in the tanks decrying others as tankies, smh.
Take, for example, my recent post about the controversy around the film The Interview and the DPRK. A commentator, clearly of the traditional "anti-tanky" way of thinking, complained about my supposed endorsement of the DPRK and argued that it would be progressive for the imperialists to invade and occupy North Korea. They were opposed to the supposed "tanky" arguments that have been made about the defense of the DPRK but had no problem arguing for the necessity of imperialist tanks (and planes and sanctions and guns and troops) to serve some sort of progressive role. That is, they were making the same argument as the tankies they were opposing, but in some sort of bullshit Second Internationalist kind of way. The tanky narrative, then, overcodes the reality of the DPRK, producing a very unscientific binary: either you're a tanky who supports the DPRK unconditionally as a socialist paradise or you're some sort of "critical" anti-tanky who supports the necessity of imperialist intervention––but since the latter demands a similar material reality as what it is opposing (i.e. military repression) then it makes no sense to argue about the errors of tankyism in the first place.
https://moufawad-paul.blogspot.com/2015/01/tankyism-and-competing-imperialisms.html
comeon. They didn't learn it from neolibs. They learned it from the other kind of libs. The ones we don't talk about.
Friendships are not to be determined by political views
Yeah, sure, buddy. Sure you can have meaningful and valuable friendships with people who literally think you're a mentally ill degenerate that should be locked away for the good of society.
"Tankie" praising a man that bombed Vietnam, now I have seen everything.
"Racism should never be tolerated (see the obama arab thing)."
Uhh... I may be mistaken, but didn't McCain very publicly refer to Vietnamese as "removed?" and stated that "(he) will hate them as long as he lives"? Like what the fuck lol.
edit Oh damn. Did not realize that was going to be censored, I hope I don't get nuked by the mods for using a slur in a quotation. But I think anyone reading this will get what slur it was through the use of context.
The "obama arab thing" wasn't even good???
“I can’t trust Obama. I have read about him, and he’s not, um, he’s an Arab,” a woman said to McCain at a town hall meeting in Lakeville, Minnesota in October 2008.
McCain grabbed the microphone from her, cutting her off. “No, ma’am,” he said. “He’s a decent family man [and] citizen that just I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues, and that’s what the campaign’s all about. He’s not [an Arab].”
That's ridiculously racist. "He's not an Arab, he's a decent guy!"
lmfao. I didn't know that's what they were even referring to. That's racist as fuck, what the hell.
Ben Affleck breaking down why that's racist with Bernie Sanders on Bill Mahar is such a great clip
Spain. He should have died in a plane crash in Spain, when he decided to fly through some power lines and caused a fucking blackout.
"...one of the most selfless people in the post 1960 republican party" is a bar so low that you'd need the drill from The Core in order to find it.
i'm going to assume this person is some veteran that drove a tank
I am a tankie who believes we should send the tanks into McCain's mausoleum
