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.”
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)
SeptugenarianSenate@leminal.space 22 hours ago
did they head out on a guilt trip and never come back
bbboi@feddit.uk 20 hours ago
One day you’ll be an adult