It’s that they are being subsidized by the Chinese government and Chinese labor markets
Government, sure. Labor markets, eh, quality of life in China is not worse than in the west in many respects.
In any case, I don’t disagree, but the obvious solution is to have self-sufficient economies not relying on external markets. The most successful example of this has been the Soviet economy, so I agree that we need protectionism but also centrally and democratically planned socialist economies.
“But I wanted the gays to live in fear, not me!!”
“When you give yourself emergency powers to skip over the democratically elected parliament and raise retirement age against the wishes of everyone”
Theres china but they commited countless genocides
There has not been one genocide in China since the coming to power of the Communist Party of China. You can bring up harsh policy or even police state accusations om Xinjiang province in the past decade (not anymore since the reeducation camps are closed), but no serious organization or analysis calls it a genocide.
are silently ereasing queer culture
China is more backwards in queer issues because they’ve developed later, but they’re most certainly progressing. There is no persecution of gay people, the worst thing you can point to is the closure of a few popular apps last year (with many more remaining open), and there are openly gay hubs in China like Chengdu (colloquially called Gaydu by Chinese genZ on social media) that are growing in popularity and feature drag shows and many elements of queer culture in their night life.
The original tankies came from supporting the russian obliteration of the 1956 hungarian revolution
Yes. Hungary, until 1945, was a literally Nazi country. The “revolution” 11 years later had extremely reactionary elements and did not want democracy or anything similar, just some people were mad because they had to pay reparations for the atrocities they did during the war.
tankies were too busy nibling on russian dick
No need for homophobic phrases like that, eating dick shouldn’t be used as an insult.
even before you get to the issue of the ussr not being communist
Communism is the last stage of socialism. The USSR was socialist, though. It had free and universal healthcare and education to the highest level, it eliminated homelessness and unemployment, guaranteed the lowest levels of economic inequality that the region has ever seen in its history, and had immense advancements in women’s rights and worker’s rights. It also saved Europe from Nazism and was the main contributor to anticolonial movements in all the global south, including Vietnam, Cuba, China and essentially the entirety of Latin America, Africa and Asia. It was by no means perfect, but making a balance of the positives and negatives, it still comes out as the most emancipatory and progressive socialist project in the history of the world by any metric you want to use.
Regarding your “vote for third party”, are you really blaming “leftists who voted third party” for the Trump victory? The numbers literally don’t match, take all third party votes and give to dems and they still lose the elections. The democrats lost the elections because they ran a conservative candidate months before the elections, without primaries, promising “the most lethal armed forces in the world” during a US-funded genocide in Gaza.
I clearly won’t convince you and I don’t think you’ll convince me either, so let’s each guess based on their own ideas:
A) Trump destroys NATO through whatever form of invasion of Greenland
B) The US gains greater control over Greenland above what they have now (whatever form it may take) and EU keeps bootlicking the US
I’m betting on B), as a tankie. I wish it were A) because NATO is close as it gets to literally Satan, but I don’t believe the powers in the US are going to waste the EU influence in its most subservient moment in decades.
You are correct in that why would the US destroy NATO. The entire point is that the people in power in the US have decided that EU is now subservient enough to the US (and since the blowup of Nordstream 2 energetically dependent too) that they will simply do nothing when the US takes Greenland in whatever form that takes.
Greenland becomes strategically important when arctic ice melts and new shipping routes open between China and Europe, and the US plans to control this more directly than it does now.
Trump does not have the power to decide geopolitical policy of the US, if he went against US interests he would quickly be removed. This is not Trump’s personal designs (maybe the messaging is but not the core events), this is the US betraying yet again its allies as it has always done.
Tankies don’t encourage the Russian system, Russia is a neoliberal capitalist country not very different from the rest of Europe in terms of economic policy. Some tankies critically support Russia in the geopolitical sphere (stress on “critically”) because it stands against the USA (by choice of the USA) and therefore ends up supporting a lot of lesser-evils globally such as Assad and Khomeinei or even some good ones like Ibrahim Traoré.
Also, idk what you mean by transphobic. I have a hexbear account (by all means you’d call them tankies) and it’s the most trans-supportive space I’ve seen.
What’s my game? I made my account today, what are you talking about?
Domestic genocide? You may not like the policy in North Korea, but genocide? Really?
Could you please source that claim?
To me, it’s “I don’t care about China spying on me, my concern is with the companies belonging to the fascist country with militarized police shooting and kidnapping people, where I happen to live”. Can’t relate yet cause I live in Spain, but Europe will get there soon too