Political Memes

Fuck all imperialist and hierarchical power structures. Fuck colonialism and fuck the police. Fuck fascists and the libs that enable them.

These "tankies" are conservative right-wing shitbag trolls trying to convince the normal people that supporting oppression and dictators is somehow "left-wing". Do not fall for their conservative bullshit.

Just like any other conservative, every word they utter is deception or manipulation. Tankies are conservative trolls through and through.

Lemmy was originally built by and for tankies, so this is completely unsurprising. The .ml TLD on the original instance isn't a coincidence.

I had one of these fucks try to tell me that North Korea is very democratic.

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It's weird that Mao, Sun Yat Sen, and Chiang Kai Shek, were all part of the same pro-democracy party early on in China's civil war.

Mao won the war, Sun Yat Sen got out of there, Chiang Kai Shek was pushed out and became dictator of Taiwan.

China is weird.

Also weird is that one guy caused most of the deaths from famine in both the USSR and China: A conman named Trofim Lysenko, who was lying about having a new science of agriculture... He was bury seeds way further than they could handle then faking his results to keep his job.... Killed like, 30 million people who were ordered to take up his techniques.

Oooooh, this thread'll let my blocklist feast for days as the Tankies come out to whatabbout

Edit: Man yall are too kind! Thank you for helping me make Lemmy a more intelligent place! <3

That's the average lemmy.ml user

heck you don't even have to go that far. the second picture can be pretty much every republican president whos held office. When was the last ware we started happen while a dem president was in office?

Lemmy is worse for political discussion than Reddit has ever been. At least Reddit has had the numbers for people to call out extreme views on either side, but the number of absolute nutjobs on here that either call for the downfall of capitalism immediately, or to let right-wing thinking slide as a natural progression of politics today. They're the sort of people that post memes about murdering Nazis in the streets, but would cower at the sight of one - or those that would happily march if they weren't so fucking awkward.

Some of us just want to enjoy the memes.

omg so true, esp on the OG Lemmy instance, where even the admins/creators of Lemmy on there are tankies.

Now, I don't like violence. But even I can see that there's a difference between violence waged for imperialism and violence waged against imperialism.

And you can see the difference too. That's why Obama and Biden always say that their wars are being waged "for freedom". That's why you accept the violence of historical revolutions like the American Revolution.

The problem is, Obama and Biden are lying when they say their wars are for freedom. Their wars are for profit and control.

Tankies

Still have yet to see more than a lone tankie on any thread

Plenty of people vaguely gesturing at lemmy.ml for some reason thiugh

The folks on the top bombed the middle east, and killed a lot of people.

As someone who lives there, the choice is an easy one.

I'd upvote the meme if it wasn't also controversial to criticize all war criminals, including both those at the top and the bottom.

Edit: For a source, see people in this thread rushing to argue and feel called out when someone criticizes "all forms of imperialism", including the Western ones.