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Turns out, tankies just want a different flavor of boot leather (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/tankiejerk@lemmy.world

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[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 24 points 3 weeks ago

The picture is inaccurate because the boot wearer is acknowledging the existence of the tankies, which is giving them far too much credit.

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

Western imperialism bad 😡

Eastern imperialism good 😇

[–] PillowD@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

TIL what a tank is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just ask @dessalines@lemmy.ml

[–] Bleys@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

you only needed the last nine characters

[+] Auntievenim@lemmy.world -28 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Yeah man taking the position that china is actually worse for anyone than trump is straight up delusional. Get a grip dude. This is fucking disgusting.

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 12 points 3 weeks ago

That's not what I am reading...?

[–] Killercat103@slrpnk.net 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't believe it's a comparison between the two. More like a meme showing paralels between supporting imperialism from different sources. I say this as someone who thinks USA is a bit worse. But I also think its a garbage to garbage comparison. So theres that.

I wish China was something I could classify as socialist but alas...

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah. I mean, we could quibble all day as to their relative awfulness, about where supporting another country's genocide to the hilt and planning others (Trump) measures against executing an ongoing genocide (PRC and the Uyghurs) weighs, but in both cases, it's, uh, close enough that I wouldn't want to be caught dead playing apologist for either. The point is that tankies disdain one boot and love the other, when if they had any sense of decency they would just not lick boots; not that they should love the MAGA boot or prefer it to the PRC's.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah man taking the position that china is actually worse for anyone than trump is straight up delusional. Get a grip dude. This is fucking disgusting.

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