it’s flattery to me when they call me a tankie – i’m literally incapable of learning marxism.
i’ll always keep trying to pick it up and i fully suspect that i will never fully succeed and people calling me a tankie feels like they’ve giving me the diploma while i’m still taking classes to learn it. lol
Oh definitely usually yeah I see it used by fascists all the time to try and attach leftists to global military domination that capitalists are obviously responsible for, for example.
Genuinely, cant I think both the US and Russia both crusted knobends. China looks better by comparison but I don’t trust them either. China looks the most stable and reasonable though they are just better at playing the shifty game.
Having skepticism and being critical in general is fine, but to do that we need to engage with reality as much as we can. Most of the time I see China being criticized for exaggerations or outright fabrications, we can’t take anti-China propaganda at face value when it’s pushed by their geopolitical adversaries. We need evidence.
China definetly has rot at the center of their society just like ours, they’ve very good lately by hiding it with propoganda.
“Those lying Asians are just as bad as us. We don’t have any evidence of that, but it must be because they are so good at hiding it with their lies”.
They have rampant corruption (so much that they give officals the death penalty for bribery, but it still doesn’t stop,)
So, giving severe punishment for corruption is evidence of rampant corruption, rather than of the state actually taking action against corruption (and not doing the Epstein thing)?
out of control pollution
Which has been getting “in control”, so to speak.
Also, amusing how you blame the effects of colonialism on the Global South. Do you think that the PRC should have magically switched to green energy without building up the capability to do that, all after your empire plundered it?
huge modern cities where nobody lives
Oh nooo. What an atrocity. This hurts… approximately nobody.
cheap EVs that explode
Tesla is a NATO company, not a PRC one.
people finding the rice they just bought is actually plastic
Source?
thousands of identical online content creators all using the same filter to look like the perfect woman, sometimes lined up dozens livestreaming on the same street a few feet from each other, etc.
Ah yes, such an awful thing in comparison with your empire engaging a genocide of Palestine.
Also, any sources of that happening, or is this another case of “Iraq WMDs”?
We don’t hear about that stuff very much in the west because freedom of speech doesn’t exist there
You mean the thing that you heard from the people who also sold you on “Iraq WMDs”?
Also, what do you expect to hear from there when you do not speak the language?
thousands of identical online content creators all using the same filter to look like the perfect woman, sometimes lined up dozens livestreaming on the same street a few feet from each other, etc.
Get a load of the last fortunate soul on earth who’s never heard of Miami
Tankie is used so vaguely nowadays it means nothing to me without context.
it’s flattery to me when they call me a tankie – i’m literally incapable of learning marxism.
i’ll always keep trying to pick it up and i fully suspect that i will never fully succeed and people calling me a tankie feels like they’ve giving me the diploma while i’m still taking classes to learn it. lol
Its ok you’re still on the team⭐️
It means what it has always meant - “a person who is correct too early”.
Holy fuck that’s even vaguer.
What issues are we talking about here and what’s your stance lmao.
It’s not vague at all. It is invariably used as an admission that the “tankie” person is correct, but the speaker can’t admit that yet.
Correct about what
About whichever they are being called a “tankie” over.
Oh definitely usually yeah I see it used by fascists all the time to try and attach leftists to global military domination that capitalists are obviously responsible for, for example.
I am not aware of any examples that don’t fall under the usage that I described.
Fair enough! That is the majority of times I see it used too
Betamax vs VHS
Genuinely, cant I think both the US and Russia both crusted knobends. China looks better by comparison but I don’t trust them either. China looks the most stable and reasonable though they are just better at playing the shifty game.
Having skepticism and being critical in general is fine, but to do that we need to engage with reality as much as we can. Most of the time I see China being criticized for exaggerations or outright fabrications, we can’t take anti-China propaganda at face value when it’s pushed by their geopolitical adversaries. We need evidence.
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“Those lying Asians are just as bad as us. We don’t have any evidence of that, but it must be because they are so good at hiding it with their lies”.
So, giving severe punishment for corruption is evidence of rampant corruption, rather than of the state actually taking action against corruption (and not doing the Epstein thing)?
Which has been getting “in control”, so to speak.
Also, amusing how you blame the effects of colonialism on the Global South. Do you think that the PRC should have magically switched to green energy without building up the capability to do that, all after your empire plundered it?
Oh nooo. What an atrocity. This hurts… approximately nobody.
Tesla is a NATO company, not a PRC one.
Source?
Ah yes, such an awful thing in comparison with your empire engaging a genocide of Palestine.
Also, any sources of that happening, or is this another case of “Iraq WMDs”?
You mean the thing that you heard from the people who also sold you on “Iraq WMDs”?
Also, what do you expect to hear from there when you do not speak the language?
Get a load of the last fortunate soul on earth who’s never heard of Miami