Ukraine’s National Corruption Prevention Agency added major food corporations PepsiCo and Mars to the “international sponsors of war” list on Sept. 1.

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          They are easily riled and while I doubt there is intentional coordination in place, due to their fervour, they can come across like a brigade. If you speak up against them - cue the hexbears flocking to this comment no doubt - they can get quite vicious, as my comment history will witness.

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        Hexbear sounds like a sigma male hangout. It sure is gay to defederate such a place.

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      Increasingly, “tankies” seem to cover any infraction against the approved anti-russian fervor;

      • if you are not convinced Russia blew up Nord Stream
      • if you are not convinced that Russia blew up a farmer and a tractor in Poland
      • if you are not convinced that Ukraines summer offensive is going all that well
      • if you believe normal Russian people are not evil monsters
      • if you are not convinced that Putin ordered the downing of Prigozhins plane
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        I have been called one just for being critical of the US military, it’s a catch all term for anyone that isnt strictly for capitalist imperialism. I consider it a soft resurgence of the red scare, I cringe each time I see it just like when I see the term lib.

        Both the pro Russian and the pro america-no-matter-the-cost crowds just stink of stupidity imo

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        so given 90% of the planet believe normal Russian people aren’t evil monsters, the default position is tankies?

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        Not really. It’s someone who claims to be liberal or progressive or a way left thinker willing to use force to make the world what they want

        People who diminish or refute Tiananmen Square 1989 are tankies

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          It’s original definition doesn’t include liberals. I consider myself relatively left. I’ve had people ridicule some of my viewpoints for being too liberal (I guess too center for them). Those people were tankies, but they weren’t tankies because they’re more left than me. It’s because they consider themselves to be very left leaning while still praising authoritative regimes and being apologists for them. That’s the tank part. They’re alright with military dictatorships of the past and even consider them to have been successful. They also rarely are able to admit the flaws of those regimes (including the genocides), and even if they do, there’s a “reason” for it (X might have been bad and did this, but at the same time, it also did Y which was somewhat good)