• PugJesus@kbin.socialOP
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      “Tankie doesn’t mean socialist” meaning “Tankie and socialist are not synonyms”. All tankies are (arguably) socialists, but not all socialists are tankies. Most socialists, since the fall of the USSR and the flow of funds from it, are not tankies.

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        By not answering if you are a socialist or if you’re pro-NATO, I can only assume you are a liberal or centrist. If that is the case, I can understand why you hate tankies. You are closer to MAGA then they are. Of course they’re your enemy.

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          lmao. Not a tankie, just using the same rhetoric as they do. Why don’t you call me a ‘social fascist’ next for believing in a democratic government?

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              To me, personally? MAGA is more of a threat. To many elsewhere in the world, tankies are the greater threat. Unless you’d like to go talk to some folk in concentration camps in Xinjiang and tell them that their real threat is American right-wingers.

              Nazis are worse than tankies, but not for lack of trying by tankies.

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                From a utilitarianist perspective, American right-wingers are a bigger threat. If they take over, they have an $860 billion military to unleash on the world. The way I’m interpreting this; you’re a closet conservative who thinks he’s a liberal. Yo hate communism more than fascism. Am I correct?

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                  If they take over, they have an $860 billion military to unleash on the world.

                  “To unleash on the world”

                  Tell me you have a surface level understanding of world politics without saying you have a surface level understanding of world politics.

                  Yo hate communism more than fascism. Am I correct?

                  I already literally said the opposite

                  Nazis are worse than tankies, but not for lack of trying by tankies.

                  Are you even pretending to argue in good faith at this point? If you are, it’s not very convincing.

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                    I try to always argue in good faith. But I tire of arguing with liberals/ conservatives with recursive arguments. There is no logic. If there is, you fail to make me understand it. Is this WhatIfAltHist?