This video is by Eric Hovagim an up and coming Tankie “reporter” and in his video he even unironically leans into China is just doing a “combatting terrorism”, just like the US gov does, amongs other things to justify chinas various human rights abuses.
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If you push tankies hard enough, they will eventually admit that they are willing murderers themselves and it is about power grab. They call out violence from anyone but their own side. They will cite other revolutions and coups to justify advocating for their own, but simultaneously thinks the same other revolutions they are inspired from are bad while their own is better. They are like the Nazis who gaslight and use hypocrisy to their own advantage. Tankies/Marxist Leninists are rightfully called red fascists after all.
“Rules for thee, not for me”
But they still get butthurt when you compare them to fascists, because they don’t understand the difference between ideology and methodology.
Like, I could make that distinction crystal clear in my critique and yet they’ll still go “But mah communism! It’s a dictatorship of the proletariat, dumbass! Read more theory!” And then proceed to call me “blue fash” while trying to equate horseshoe theory to both-sides-ism 🙄
I just tell them that the only reason they aren’t raging capitalists is that they haven’t read enough Milton Friedman or Adam Smith. Read more theory! Not that way! (No, I’m not a believer in the Chicago School of economics.)
I like to quote Marx to them without attribution just to watch it go right over their heads while they call me a “fascist shitlib”
I have some of them tagged for saying things like “people like you are the reason there will be gulags” and “you’ll get the wall too” directly to other Lemmy users.
They’re determined that their superior philosophy will make the world a better place, no matter how many people they have to kill.