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But tankies told me that Russia is a peaceful democratic country, and that Russia has no will whatsoever to act aggressively towards its neighbours, even on the internet.
In fact, tankies told me that westerners are the only people in the world who are ever aggressive, malicious, or evil.
Don't know who you talked to. You can believe in communism AND say that Russia is a hostile pos of a state and that Putin is a war criminal and should be judge as so.
They said tankies, not communists
Yeah. Simping for authoritarian regimes, while larping leftists, has absolutely nothing to do with communism.
You're absolutely right. Thanks for correcting me.
What does Putin have to do with communism? Except hating it.
Yes, but not on any community on lemmy.ml...
You've apperently not talked to a lot of .lm users then.
The bbc are tankies?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9y7l0pm8jkko
Who told you that? Like specifically?
That reads pretty confrontational
Asking like that β a tad bit, yeah
Oh, thank you, you're so considerate, a pleasure to meet such a nice person
Not a single "Tankie" told you this. You're just a liar.
It's certainly the general gist of what tankies say.
Right, misrepresenting and exaggerating your "enemy" is just fine and normal behavior. Democracy totally works that way.
Them "evil tankies" that "support" Russia only ever do so to take the (in their mind) lesser evil stance compared to what they see as complete western dominance in the region, were Russia to lose. Not that I agree with that, but it's funny how nuance and lesser evilism only exist to you guys when it comes to absolve yourselves for voting for pedophile war criminals painted blue in America
ok so why I vote for the lesser social democrat they all seem to want to kill me
I guess I see Ukraine as the "lesser evil" by far:
I've noticed that tankies like to point out that far-right figures exist in Ukraine. Yes they do. But they exist in Russia too. In fact, some Russian far-right figures have influence over the Russian government. Perhaps that's why Russia is pursuing an imperialist foreign policy.
Edit: I just want to point out that I'm not saying the Ukrainian people or the Russian people are worse or better than the other side. I'm only talking about their governments. To me the current Ukrainian government seems like the "lesser evil" compared to the current Russian government.
Yeah that's fair, you won't be seeing be defending the Russian government and in fact I agree with most of this. I just wanted to point out common hypocrisy I see in online spaces where a different, zero tolerance standard is applied when it comes to foreign policy
Btw, nonconfrontational was banned for ban evasion. I permabanned their first account for trolling, toxicity and genocide denial and they decided to make another account with exactly the same name report someone they disagreed with probably thinking I wouldnt remember them or something.