Mr. w00t@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 months agoDouble standards or something, I don't know...lemmy.mlimagemessage-square200fedilinkarrow-up1699arrow-down1492
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minus-squarealvvayson@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkarrow-up51arrow-down2·9 months agoNo, there is a big group that supports Ukraine and Israel. And that group includes a majority in Congress, President Biden and (in Ukraine) president Zelensky. And then there are also the tankies that support Palestine and Russia. Finally, a lot of people are neutral or non-aligned in Israel vs Palestine, including myself, but definitely pro-Ukraine.
minus-squareseitanic@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down5·9 months agoSo, does supporting Palestine automatically make you a tankie?
minus-squarealvvayson@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down3·9 months agoNo, you have to support Russia’s invasions of its neighbours to be a tankie.
minus-squareOmega_Haxors@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down24·9 months agoTankie is just a word internet creeps use as a derogatory term for “on the right side of history” so yes it does.
minus-squareSocsa@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down3·9 months agoYou mean that time that the USSR rolled tanks into Prague because checks notes the socialist government published some newspapers? Bro, even Mao Zedong was like “that shit is mega fucked up.”
minus-squareOmega_Haxors@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down9·9 months agoSaid like 99.9999% of people who use that word just use it to mean anyone having left-of-hitler views.
minus-squareR0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·9 months agoRemoved by mod
minus-squareFacebones@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down4·9 months agoOr “people I disagree with that I accuse of saying ridiculous shit that while they never stop saying it I simultaneously can not point to a single instance of it being said”
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down12·9 months agotankie is to libs is what woke is to nazis
No, there is a big group that supports Ukraine and Israel.
And that group includes a majority in Congress, President Biden and (in Ukraine) president Zelensky.
And then there are also the tankies that support Palestine and Russia.
Finally, a lot of people are neutral or non-aligned in Israel vs Palestine, including myself, but definitely pro-Ukraine.
So, does supporting Palestine automatically make you a tankie?
No, you have to support Russia’s invasions of its neighbours to be a tankie.
Tankie is just a word internet creeps use as a derogatory term for “on the right side of history” so yes it does.
You mean that time that the USSR rolled tanks into Prague because checks notes the socialist government published some newspapers?
Bro, even Mao Zedong was like “that shit is mega fucked up.”
Said like 99.9999% of people who use that word just use it to mean anyone having left-of-hitler views.
Removed by mod
Or “people I disagree with that I accuse of saying ridiculous shit that while they never stop saying it I simultaneously can not point to a single instance of it being said”
tankie is to libs is what woke is to nazis