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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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Apparently I'm now a shitlib for not buying into this disgusting tankie propaganda that it was all the Wests fault and Stalin had to ally with Hitler.

For a mod who loves to ban others for bad jacketing, they sure have no problem doing it to other anarchists.

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[–] Denjin@feddit.uk 65 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I love how all tankie defense boils down to "dO yOuR OwN ReSeArCh"

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 50 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Where "your own research" means "Cowbee's research."

[–] Juice@midwest.social 3 points 11 hours ago

Def the funniest part of the post

[–] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago

agree blindly with our threadbare propaganda or you're a sheep!!!

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What is cowbee? Google isn't helping

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A blatherer whose every response seems to involve trying to get someone to read a book that i'm starting to suspect they wrote, or are actually a fourteen year old who read their first thing that Spoke to them.

[–] Juice@midwest.social 3 points 11 hours ago

Cowbee did not write Blackshirts and Reds. Lol

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 days ago

An infamous tankie on Lemmy

[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I did my own research and it disagrees with tankies' conclusions. Now what?

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 5 points 1 day ago

Now you're a banned shitlib!

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Then you've been brainwashed with western propaganda is they're their usual go to

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And also they're Russophobic, Sinophobic, a total shitlib, and most of all, banned for Rule 1 and 2 (having a dissenting opinion)

[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was raised and educated by people who grew up in USSR. If it was a paradise like tankies claim, those people would know.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah they really don't seem to realise that this is a thing in living memory. As in there are people who walk among them who were actually alive when the USSR existed.

[–] Lemvi@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They are too exhausted by all their research to form proper arguments. 🙂‍↕️

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They're too used to banning dissent from their online spaces that they don't have a clue how to actually make an argument that holds any water or without resorting to bad faith tactics. Their arguments never hold up to scrutiny.

[–] ScrooLewse@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Damn that sounds a lot like MAGA

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Tankies and MAGA have more similarities than differences. The only real distinction is which authoritarians they worship.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Tankies need their safe space for same reasons as Nazis.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Wish it was only tankies. But with them, there's the additional implication that all aspects of Soviet history should be public knowledge, and if you do not know these things that alone makes you a ... reactionary? capitalist bootlicker? Something like that.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

My experience with these people is that they are extremely selectively informed about Soviet history. So ironically, they are actually quite ignorant on the topic, but they expect only their very specific cherry-picked facts and interpretations to be well understood by everyone, but none of the context or intervening events that might paint the USSR as anything other than the most benevolent organization in all of history.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That is very probably more true than what I wrote.