Tankies are weird because it's mostly genuinely good ideas of justice and fairness tied to a century old wagon full of some of the worst ideas the world has ever seen. Eventually they get consumed by the bad actor propaganda because of this.

Socialism already had a very successful rebrand but being happy with your house and EV with a social safety net in northern europe it's just too boring for them. Not enough tanks and iconography I guess.

I get the feeling most of them just want to watch the western world burn and kinda don’t care how it happen

And if you aren't their specific brand of tank you can burn too.

"Both sides bad" is a litmus test. If someone says it unironically it lets me know what IQ range they fall within.

It seems like a lot of them honestly think that if a liar says something, it must be a lie. They realized that our government lies, and immediately flipped everything they thought they knew to the opposite of what they thought it was.

"The US, which suppresses its own citizens, said that Russia, China, and North Korea suppress their own citizens? That must mean they're awesome! Ignore personal accounts from people who live or escaped from there, if the US says it's bad, it must be good, no question!"

Like, yeah, both sides are bad. Suppressing your citizens is bad. We need to be rising up as citizens across the world to take the power back from all dictatorial governments everywhere, not arguing about which one is the worst as if that makes the others better.