There are too many of these people on lemmy

Fuck all imperialist and hierarchical power structures. Fuck colonialism and fuck the police. Fuck fascists and the libs that enable them.

These "tankies" are conservative right-wing shitbag trolls trying to convince the normal people that supporting oppression and dictators is somehow "left-wing". Do not fall for their conservative bullshit.

Just like any other conservative, every word they utter is deception or manipulation. Tankies are conservative trolls through and through.

Lemmy was originally built by and for tankies, so this is completely unsurprising. The .ml TLD on the original instance isn't a coincidence.

I had one of these fucks try to tell me that North Korea is very democratic.

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That's the average lemmy.ml user

Lemmy is worse for political discussion than Reddit has ever been. At least Reddit has had the numbers for people to call out extreme views on either side, but the number of absolute nutjobs on here that either call for the downfall of capitalism immediately, or to let right-wing thinking slide as a natural progression of politics today. They're the sort of people that post memes about murdering Nazis in the streets, but would cower at the sight of one - or those that would happily march if they weren't so fucking awkward.

Some of us just want to enjoy the memes.

heck you don't even have to go that far. the second picture can be pretty much every republican president whos held office. When was the last ware we started happen while a dem president was in office?

Now, I don't like violence. But even I can see that there's a difference between violence waged for imperialism and violence waged against imperialism.

And you can see the difference too. That's why Obama and Biden always say that their wars are being waged "for freedom". That's why you accept the violence of historical revolutions like the American Revolution.

The problem is, Obama and Biden are lying when they say their wars are for freedom. Their wars are for profit and control.

omg so true, esp on the OG Lemmy instance, where even the admins/creators of Lemmy on there are tankies.

Tankies

Still have yet to see more than a lone tankie on any thread

Plenty of people vaguely gesturing at lemmy.ml for some reason thiugh

I'd upvote the meme if it wasn't also controversial to criticize all war criminals, including both those at the top and the bottom.

Edit: For a source, see people in this thread rushing to argue and feel called out when someone criticizes "all forms of imperialism", including the Western ones.

The folks on the top bombed the middle east, and killed a lot of people.

As someone who lives there, the choice is an easy one.

I can agree with the text while being against the authoritarians pictured.

I just hope people don't think that everyone complaining about US imperialism is somehow fine with Russian or Chinese actions of the same hue.

The US as least has a flawed democracy.

Is the tankie in the room with us right now?

It's why I went back to reddit. I check in here occasionally to check. I can handle the reddit hive if I limit where and how I participate. But the hardcore political ideologies sprinkled everywhere in lemmy ruin even a limited browsing experience for me.

Whataboutism. The only way for libs to cope with reality

Lots of straw man wrestlers in this thread. 🥹

Aright anyone have a blocklist for all these extreme politics?

Has anyone ever thought that if you combined Stalin and Xi Jinping, it would probably look a lot like Kim Jong Un? Like, if you fed the two of them into a 'What would our baby look like' generator, I feel like it would be real close.

I was in discussion (if you can even call it that) with someone and when he spoke about "Occupied Korea" i knew there was no point what so ever to continue.

There's no laddar long enough in the world to climb out of that hole.

The only country actually running over people with tanks is Israel and does it with the unconditional support of the US

Liberals as always don’t see Arabs as people. Don’t you dare come asking for our votes.

Liberal war criminals! Left wing criminals! Right wing criminals!

Everyone gets war crimes!

you could pull waayy more ugly pictures from us imperialism. or against their own.

socialists have something to show for in the form of actual progress in the quality of life of its citizens.

I mean Biden is supporting Israel so he ain’t any better.

Only on the far left and far right is "liberal" seen as an insult.

In no small part because those types of people are the main developers and because, let's face it, they need a federated medium in case their disinformation campaigns in main social networks begin to be taken down (although given how much their owners like money and that governments seem to be doing shit all to abusive behind-the-scenes misuse of them, not currently likely at all).