Comment on Tankie

• Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Bedtimes are authoritarian, your parents are dictators

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  • Mulligrubs@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My parents are dead! (runs out of room crying)

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    • SeptugenarianSenate@leminal.space ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      did they head out on a guilt trip and never come back

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  • bbboi@feddit.uk ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    One day you’ll be an adult

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• 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.”

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  • bbboi@feddit.uk ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You sound much more of an isolationist than a tankie. Lol.

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    • Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The word “isolationist” doesn’t exist in the vocabularies of most people around here. It doesn’t really matter why I disagree with US military interventions, the fact that I do means that I will inevitably be labelled tankie or a Russian bot. So you might as well ignore it, or love the word instead, cause you ain’t done nothing if you ain’t be called a Red.

      Besides, I’m not wholly an isolationist. I have no problem with trade or foreign aid, so long as it isn’t military aid. More accurately, I’m a dove. But “dove” doesn’t exactly work as an insult. Some liberals even like to imagine that they’re doves, unbelievably.

      But again, liberals don’t recognize that perspectives like “doves” or “isolationists” exist. You either follow the narrative of the media and politicians, or you get thrown into this big lump of Bad People™ with zero distinctions regarding why you disagree with them.

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    • Aljernon@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Isolationists would want to stay out of Ukraine to mind our own business, this guy wants to stay out of Ukraine because .ml is notorious for giving modern day Russia a free pass with their Imperial nonsense.

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      • Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Case in point: Anyone who wants to stay out of conflicts automatically supports Russia. My actual reasons and motivations are totally irrelevant. Thank you for proving my point.

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