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What even is a "tankie" its a meanigless buzzword use to critize anyone opposing imperialism or pointing out obvouis lies spread by things like falun gong or radio free asia just useless nonsense.
It's not a meaningless buzzword; we all know what a tankie is, the term has been around and in use for many decades.
So... what does "what", "even", and "is" mean? I'm just asking honest questions.
No, Tankies are people advocating for using force to suppress whatever they deem not acceptable. This isn't nonsense, this is a 2-class society: the rulers and the people which do not count.
"Tankies" are people who actually understand how imperialism and hegemony work. They are able to look past their prejudices using material analysis to recognize who perpetrates imperialism vs those who are victimized by it and struggles against it. "Tankies" stand in support of the latter. Whereas People who use "tankies" as a pejorative (sometimes now called dronies) are those who have failed to sift out from the deluge of propaganda (that we are all saturated by) those specific lies that they want to believe in. They remain ignorant, usually willfully, because it is easier and oftentimes beneficial to them to believe that, for instance, the groups of people their government tells them are evil and "authoritarian" really are evil and "authoritarian."
While it is ultimately a failure of understanding how the world actually works that the drony suffers from, it is often rooted in a failure of self reflection, the refusal to recognize their prejudices, biases, and the material reasons behind their wilful ignorance. So of course the dronies hate people who are willing to hold up a mirror and then look out and see the world as it is, because those people are a reminder and representation of all the things the dronies in their cowardice refuse to look at. Hence we get frothing know-nothings who think they're leftists whinging and even raging about those terrible "tankies."
So when Barack Obama claimed the right for the US President, to drone strike anyone deemed a terrorist, without trial, did that make him a Tankie?
everyone supports the use of force though do you not think force should be used to stop a rapist thats a meaningless definition.
Lol yeah rape and holding up empty pieces of paper on the red square are very much the same.
Your take isn't hot, it's braindead
Holy false equivalency, Batman! We can both throw straw man examples back and forth all day long. But you know damned well what kind of force they were referring to, and what kind of “crimes” that force would be used to stop. There’s a vast difference between rape and protesting against the government. And the fact that you’re trying to equate them means you’re approaching the argument from a fundamentally skewed perspective and likely aren’t arguing in good faith.
They were very clearly not making any equivalency let alone a false equivalency. They were using an example that we all would agree on as a demonstration. This is a rhetorical device and a perfectly valid, frequently used one at that. But the fact that you and apparently a couple others are trying to make it out as if they were saying "r*** is the same thing as protesting" is disgusting and revealing of your own motives.
You're meaningless if violence and rape is the first you think of
What lol it's a word for a specific kind of fanatic fascists who think they're leftists
thats a useless definition you said nothing.
No you
Yeah done responding to you was hoping you'd actually attempt to define it apparently not so we're done.
No you!
Wisdom has been chasing you but you're much faster.
Like they said, useless nonsense, what does your sentence even mean?
Oh comon 21st century digital boy use the internet if you're not able understand it
'Maybe if I use another buzz word they stop calling out the points I have no defenses for'