• Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 hours ago

    Is it a tankie thing to point out that the US backed Nazi infested Ukraine government is pressganging people off the street into an unwinnable ware against an overwhelmingly superior force?

    No, but it is tankie to look up to Imperial shitholes like Russia and China.

    Which are a lot more full of Nazis than the EU. Go shove that in your propaganda pipeline.

    And we only bring up Russia all the time, because tankies bring up the US all the time. Which you proved yet again.

    • Johnny_Arson [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      4 hours ago

      Could it be because the US is a massive hegemonic empire whose tendrils reach into all the world’s politics?

      China is not “imperial” that is absurd. Russia may have nationalist reactionary ambitions but their position in opposition to the greater evil that is the US is why there is critical support among some on the left. Russia does not have a massive global financial apparatus including hundreds of NGOs and finance capital used to impose extractivist policies on subjects around the world.

      Neither China nor Russia have even a tenth of a percent of the US 800+ overseas military installations.

      No, but it is tankie to look up to Imperial shitholes like Russia and China.

      Nobody is looking up to Russia and calling China a “shithole” is just racist white supremacist brainworms, which you proved yet again.

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.uk
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      5 hours ago

      It might be a tankie thing to change the subject ten times in one reply like I’ve never heard of a gish gallop. First they laugh at you, as they say - sometimes you just leave it at that.

      • Johnny_Arson [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        4 hours ago

        How am I the one changing the subject when I just asked why you weirdos are so obsessed with bringing up Russia in entirely unrelated threads?

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          4 hours ago

          Hardly unrelated, reform (and it’s predecessors) have a long history with Russian money.

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          3 hours ago

          It’s not unrelated, as the other person mentioned. And on a closer inspection you changed the subject six times.

          All of this gnashing of teeth from you because I made one joke about Farage’s crooked campaign finance, and somehow I’m the weirdo?

          Fuck it. Let’s call this one a wash and hopefully next time we’ll be able to take each other more seriously. None of this conversation seems salvageable at this point, sorry to have bothered you.