Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this

Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Okay, but wouldn’t an authoritarian government that prohibited the sale of weapons for genocide be just as bad as one that directly orchestrated the sales?

  To quote a wise man:

  There is absolutely no difference between good and bad things. You idiot. You imbicile.

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• TronBronson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  No the bar is right there at “would drive tanks over people I disagree with”

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  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Sure. I’ve never been willing to drive tanks over anyone, but I get called a tankie all the time by people who really can’t stand it that I say that neither democrats nor republicans have any business supporting genocide.

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    • obre@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Liberals use the term to refer to anyone left of chuck schumer. Socialists and anarchists use the term to refer to authoritarians who cloak themselves in Marxism, Liberation, and Anti-Imperialism while perpetuating oppression through ethnic cleansing, mass incarceration, and wars of aggression.

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      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Which version do you suppose is more common on lemmy?

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    • TronBronson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Well, opposing genocide doesn’t make you a tankie… usually its the opposite. There’s nothing Tanky about saying Democrats and Republicans support genocide because they do.

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      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Well, opposing genocide doesn’t make you a tankie…

        Yet somehow centrists keep saying it anyway.

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      • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Opposition to the Democrat’s genocide is the number one reason I see people being called tankie for

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