Tankies are just MAGA pretending to be communist

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      Jesus Christ, you’re not kidding. It’s fascinating but I feel like looking at it may have damaged me in some way.

      Stuff like this is going to happen. The more they keep inciting transphobic hatred, the more likely that a masculine woman is going to be assaulted. It’s not funny because the woman might not even be a TERF and could be completely innocent.

      Abortion and euthanasia are going to lead to autistic people being murdered. Neo progressives already believe that disabled children should be aborted and atheists admit that “life begins some time after birth” meaning they openly support euthanasia up to age five in some cases. A lot of neo progressives think the most humane option for disabled children is abortion or euthanasia at a young age.

      My sister supported abortion before she transitioned and she says that she was a creepy white knight when she supported it.

      I support raising the minimum wage, but there should be an exemption for people living with middle class parents.

      I think they are just trying to pursue viewpoint-inception in a way that deliberately will make everyone in the conversation mad at them, so they can get a high score. I cannot imagine any other explanation.

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      Also I’ll add that this persons instance is literally a russian domain so I guess they are like a putin stooge or something

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        most likely a troll.

        i’ve never heard of a tankie denying climate change since they think it puts China in a good light (despite producing the most emissions out of any country)

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          I guess there’s the question of whether those on Russian division campaigns could be called “just trolls”, but they aren’t tankies. Tankies have an ideology while the Russian troll farms don’t, other than inflaming anything they possibly can to increase division and get people angry at each other.

          They simultaneously take extreme positions on any debate. Their goal isn’t to convince anyone about their extreme position other than to make readers think they are genuine, so they opposition then thinks what they are up against is more extreme and dangerous, and thus they need to escalate their own position. They want people who care about women’s rights to be at odds with people who care about men’s rights (the obvious one) and also less obvious ones like gay rights, trans rights, racial rights, hell if they can get feminists fighting with vegans, that would be a big win.

          The ultimate goal is to paralyze the culture by making it argue with extreme strawman versions of reasonable positions for every topic it can.

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      In fairness, weather models and climate patterns have come a long way since the mid-90s. Meanwhile, folks who did have access to advanced climate data worked very hard to cover it up.

      Thankfully, the world’s largest population does appear to be taking climate change much more seriously in the 2020s than they did in the 1990s. Would that more countries took the threat of the Holocene extinction more seriously.

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      Basing your entire viewpoint as an opposition to a group will always make you look dumb. Your thoughts should be based on the most correct data you have available.

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      You don’t have to think ahead when you can just pay other people for everything without ever impacting your standard of living.

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      I think it’s even simpler than that. They’re millionaires. Why would they give a shit if their house is under water in 20 years. They’ll just get another one and stay in their other houses while they find another beach front house, and get some money back from the house insurance they can afford.

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        Yeah they have FEMA insurance so our taxes pay for it. They love taking our tax money and spending it on their excesses.

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      What’s idiotic?

      If they only care about short term fulfillment/success, they are “winning”.

      Obviously long term it’s idiotic but they clearly don’t care

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      Impossible. If they were stupid, how could they possibly have gotten so rich? Its not as though you can just steal billions of dollars through systemic coercion, corruption, and graft.

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    This is one of those hate-bait accounts, I’m almost sure of it. But you know…poe’s law and all…

  • 1stTime4MeInMCU@mander.xyz
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    There are plenty of conservatives on Lemmy. I don’t think it’s even pretend tankies I think some people are just straight up MAGA that found their way to a hostile part of the internet lol

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        They even have a whole community, !conservative@lemm.ee

        …or rather there’s a handful of people posting stories there just to be downvoted by random lemm.ee users browsing the local feed, often followed up by getting dissected in the comments.

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          That’s a great place to go if you want to argue about Southern Strategy. You can experience well-considered positions such as, “name the exact day or it is fake,” “nuh uh,” and “no, you.”

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          I tried going here. I was hoping for a post-Trump community, but that place is led by a fascist mod. His whole post history is asking for good faith arguments while delivering bad faith. The mod ACTUALLY believes the words coming out of Trump’s mouth. He’ll tell you how the crazy left is fighting for an open border and they hate our country. It’s not reality. It’s not even head-in-the-sand. It’s pure fairy tale.

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        There’s like four of us. But we get down voted a lot and quickly banned from most.

        We’re not common.

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            Cuz mods are shit everywhere and our views are unpopular. They will deliberately misinterprete comments, looking for awful meanings that don’t even make sense.

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              Like how you deliberately misinterpret LGBT-themed books as being literal pornography?

              Always fun to check a regressive’s comment history and see what they’re actually crying about.

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                Gender queer specifically has a picture of a blowjob. It’s explicit. It’s not meant to titalate, it’s meant to prevent the book from being put on school shelves so the author can complain conservatives are oppressing free speech.

                Most lgbtq books are fine. It’s that one specifically that keeps coming up. It’s just bait.

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    Is anyone still actually confused about the very obvious link between tankies and right wing trolls?