And just think what a stupid position that is. Blaming the “west” as if an arbitrary direction has some causation. Imaging how stupid it would sound to blame something in the “east”. I think anyone would be rightly ridiculed for saying one. But oddly, not the other.
Do… do they think we just don’t like the west direction on a compass?
Imaging how stupid it would sound to blame something in the “east”.
Ah yes, I forget that the Japanese control global trade, have the most funded military in the world with a thousand military bases globally. Nippon is at it again, I suppose. How many military bases does China have globally again?
That guy is just completely lacking comprehension. His whole argument is “Hmm…why don’t you blame the East for things too, stupid tankie?”
“tankies always complain about capital, but lower case letters can be used for bad things too”
The sun rises in the East and Sets in the West, hear that? Sets in the West, the West is responsible for bringing darkness upon our world, that is why we hate the west.
What do these tankies mean by third world. There’s only ONE world and it’s Earth! There’s not even a second world (unless they mean Mars, but we haven’t settled that yet)
Why is the only usable reddit alternative that is not full of fascists (well…) lemmy? I will not think of this further.
racism is bad just like tankies
the middle east [this is not racism *wink] is buying up sports to help sanewash their bullshit
They really could have said “oil monarchs” but they had to involve all of the “middle east”
those tankies are just like the racists (exept theyre not actually racist, or making racist jokes)
also xi jinping is just like winnie the poo yellow bear lmao so funny
Do they really think MLs stay on Lemmy thanks to their unfunny memes and bad takes on geopolitical issues?
Lemmy was created by MLs, and the first users were MLs
Imagine generalizing Saudi Arabia to “the middle east”
Yeah that stuck out to me to. Reducing the entire “Middle East” to this one US sponsored rump state is super fucked up and racist.
Which…is exactly the point, no? It’s the classic colonial imagination in action. The Saudis(UAE, Qatar etc) are western puppets, therefore, they are the only people who deserve a regional title and get to be considered civilized and a part of the in group in the ME. Everyone else are just barbarians/terrorists who just sort of exist on the periphery solely to be conquered and submitted to the will of “civilization.”
Aside from the possible racist implications of the middle east comment, it’s still capitalism doing capitalism shit. Buying up a chunk of popular media to whitewash your atrocities has been in the playbook for over a century.
It’s like impossible for these people to criticize “tankies” without bringing up some capitalist bullfuckery.
Communism is bad, like when capitalism does bad things, but always, instead of just when it does bad things, which is also always, but worse than capitalism.
Weird how they only ever seem to use that logic against those on the left.
Especially since I thought they were against having echo chambers if it was blocking out the antivax or flat earthers population.
Those threads are always the same self-jerking “tankies are an op on the left to make the left look bad!” as if being feckless, useless shitlib idealists that have never had a material, real example of their internet ideologies exist nor have had people live and die for them is some ultimate ideal to look up to. Literal ivory tower bullshit.
Also love the “Ze INSIDIOUS BOLSHEVIKS should not be allowed to gather!! Their ideology ist harmful!! NEIN!!”
ooh thanks for reminding me to call them lemmy.flatworld.
