They don’t care who “wins”, they profit off of the war itself
People kept telling me that the Taliban won the war in Afghanistan but I kept telling them the US Military Industrial complex won.
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Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 1 day agoThose in control of the USA are internationalists, too.
They don’t care who “wins”, they profit off of the war itself.
They love tankies
They don’t care who “wins”, they profit off of the war itself
People kept telling me that the Taliban won the war in Afghanistan but I kept telling them the US Military Industrial complex won.
Objection@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
Then why would they love tankies, some of the only people who consistently oppose them building and using tanks?
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Tankies are “authoritarian communists”, they are not pro peace in any way, they love tanks.
(standard definition, not familiar with the tankies that you describe)
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
Bedtimes are authoritarian, your parents are dictators
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
My parents are dead! (runs out of room crying)
bbboi@feddit.uk 20 hours ago
One day you’ll be an adult
Objection@lemmy.ml 22 hours ago
Really? Because I’m always calling for staying out of conflicts and dramatically reducing the military budget and people are constantly calling me a tankie because of those stances.
See, if you don’t want war, it means you support the other side, and however bad “our” side is, the other side is always worse and more aggressive (the media says so, after all) and that means that anyone who’s pro-peace is actually pro-war.
So it was when I said we shouldn’t invade Iraq and Afghanistan, it meant that I was “a terrorist sympathizer” and “pro-Al Qaida,” and when I say we should stay out of Palestine, people say I’m “pro-Hamas” and when I say we should stay out of Ukraine people say I’m “pro-Russia” and a “tankie.” Consistently advocating against the use of tanks is essentially the defining characteristic of a “tankie.”
bbboi@feddit.uk 20 hours ago
You sound much more of an isolationist than a tankie. Lol.
bbboi@feddit.uk 20 hours ago
War makes money
Objection@lemmy.ml 19 hours ago
But tankies oppose nearly all wars.
Aljernon@lemmy.today 13 hours ago
Tankies seek to use state violence to coerce and terrorize the working class into unquestioning obedience to the state. Sometimes that violence is directed at the working class in other states so it’s hard to argue they oppose war.
bbboi@feddit.uk 18 hours ago
Do you know what tanks are for?
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
can’t have war if everyone surrenders too soon.
Objection@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
Exactly.
There’s only one war worth fighting and that’s the class war. Everything else is just throwing lives away for nothing.