Turns out, tankies just want a different flavor of boot leather : tankiejerk

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Western imperialism bad 😡

Eastern imperialism good 😇

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 day ago

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

[–] PillowD@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just ask @dessalines@lemmy.ml

[–] Bleys@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

you only needed the last nine characters

[+] Auntievenim@lemmy.world -27 points 1 day 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 11 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Killercat103@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 day 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 5 points 1 day 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 7 points 1 day 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.

what

[+] umb_official@lemmy.ml -39 points 1 day ago (2 children)

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Ah yes, the well-known bootlickers of US imperialism, the [checks notes]

... anarchists?

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Critical thinking is western imperialism.

[+] optissima@lemmy.ml -19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Regardless of if it is, it isnt used there.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"No u"

I mean you're not wrong either, but accepting the premise that critical thinking is anathema to tankies is pretty funny.

[–] optissima@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Marxism is based on scientific method, if you need to figure out if it's actually an anathema to them.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

MLs are no more scientific in their approach than the fucking Nazis were. Saying "IT'S OBJECTIVE REALITY" loudly and repeatedly might make for good propaganda to the braindead, but it's not much of an actual argument. And, for the record, the ML disdain for even basic precepts of Marxism does not make them particularly appropriate heirs to Marxist thought.

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 11 points 1 day ago

It doesn't seem like you know what an anarchist is

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