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this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2026
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This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.
This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?
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Damn, you can't even use China as the positive comparison here without some random tankie getting pissed I didn't adequately glaze China.
Yeah, the comparison is positive, but also anyone who disagrees with you wants you murdered by a tank.
FFS, can you people take any level of criticism?
Oh! All this time and I hadn't clocked that tankie was referencing the Tiananmen Square massacre. That makes a lot of sense.
I thought it was something related to think-tanks or something, some kind of weird way of saying "brainiac" or having "big-brained ideas" in a derogatory manner.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
It's not. It's referencing the Hungarian Revolt of '56.
Hahaha.
Well, in my heart of hearts, this is who it's really talking about.
I read your comment as largely, if not entirely, supportive of the guy you responded to. What am I missing?