• Gerryflap@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Weird meme this one. I’m 100% against tankies, or at least the type of communist here who seems hellbent on defending regimes like the Chinese communist party or (especially weird) Putin’s Russia. There’s plenty of stuff wrong about western nations, but that is no excuse for defending dictators and authoritarian regimes. And I’m definitely not the angry pepe in the image, because by all classifications I would be part of the “woke left”.

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      1 year ago

      If you are critical of western nations then you should stop uncritically swallowing their propaganda about their geopolitical enemies

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      1 year ago

      ”Defending Putin’s Russia” is a strawman. I’ve never seen a single person you libs call ”tankies” defend Putin on here.

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      1 year ago

      I think communism is a fantastic idea but don’t think it’s truly workable in practice, regrettably. True democratic socialism seems more realistic, but also has problems. But being a communist and then just defending all communists regardless of what they’re doing is problematic.