c/Trashpost · by loaf@sh.itjust.works · 1y

Tankie confusion

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napkin2020@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Tankies are the kind of people who would definitely sell their soul for Trump if they had read another single blog post few years ago.

SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y

Many of them may still do that anyway.

LemmyAtEm2@lemmy.world · -9 pts · 1y (8 replies)

Am I missing something? Aren't tankies just ancap? Also what is Trump saying that is anti capitalism?

TiggerYumYum@lemm.ee · 33 pts · 1y (4 replies)

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LemmyAtEm2@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (3 replies)

I guess my question is more, what is Trump saying that is the same as Tankies? Trump isn't anti Capitalist.

TiggerYumYum@lemm.ee · 22 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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LemmyAtEm2@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Putin is definitely a dictator who started the war, and invaded Ukraine.

But doesn't every country have the right to defend itself? (Not that Russia is 'defending itself' in this case)

Cethin@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 1y

But doesn't every country have the right to defend itself? (Not that Russia is 'defending itself' in this case)

I don't know why you're asking a question that you answered. Yes they do, but that's not what Russia is doing. That's their excuse and it makes no sense. Ukraine has a right to defend itself. Russia is invading.

ChairmanMeow@programming.dev · 15 pts · 1y

Ancap is anarcho-capitalism, e.g. screw the government, stateless society where capitalism is king. Not entirely the tankie viewpoint.

RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1y

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finitebanjo@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

Tankies supposedly oppose capitalism, and they only support anarchism when it's in the West.

The term is derived from those who sided with the tanks when the USSR rolled into towns and later when the CCP sent the military on their own citizens during an event that resulted in millions of deaths across their nation. You know, "communists" but without any power in the hands of the workers.

TankieTanuki@sh.itjust.works · -10 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Tankies have been anti-NATO since 1949. It has nothing to do with the Red v. Blue spectacle.

SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 1y (2 replies)

So if and when the US is no longer a member of NATO, the Tankies will openly support Trump?

finitebanjo@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

A lot of them already openly support Trump and promoted him actively on Hexbear and Lemmygrad before the election.

TankieTanuki@sh.itjust.works · -5 pts · 1y

No. Why would we?

RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 1y

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Amnesigenic@lemmy.world · -32 pts · 1y (34 replies)

Anything's possible when you make shit up kiddo