Tankies are just MAGA pretending to be communist

  • mecfs@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 month ago

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

    • goat@sh.itjust.worksM
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      1 month ago

      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)

      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        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.