• Rothe@piefed.social
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    14 hours ago

    Tankies: “Any enemy of the US is my ally”.

    It is a zero sum game for them. They are incapable of thinking that while the US sucks, their enemies can also suck.

    • 🇨🇦GreenBeard🇨🇦@lemmy.ca
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      12 hours ago

      It is a zero sum game for them.

      Who is “them” exactly here? Are you listening to teenagers on TikTok and extrapolating a whole ideology here? Tankies aren’t anti-American by definition. Someone is feeding you some pretty twisted propaganda.

    • freagle@lemmy.ml
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      12 hours ago

      Strawman. Tankies literally have a phrase for this. It’s called “critical support”, which means supporting the efforts of anti-imperialism while reserving the right to criticize without that critique rising to the level of reversing the support for the anti-imperialist action