▲ 519 ▼ Comrads, we must provide critical support, not critical thinking! (thelemmy.club) submitted 4 days ago by Godric@lemmy.world to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world 317 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Rothe@piefed.social -1 points 4 days ago (2 children) Tankies: "Any enemy of the US is my ally". It is a zero sum game for them. They are incapable of thinking that while the US sucks, their enemies can also suck. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] frisbird@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago Strawman. Tankies literally have a phrase for this. It's called "critical support", which means supporting the efforts of anti-imperialism while reserving the right to criticize without that critique rising to the level of reversing the support for the anti-imperialist action permalink fedilink source parent [–] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 days ago It is a zero sum game for them. Who is "them" exactly here? Are you listening to teenagers on TikTok and extrapolating a whole ideology here? Tankies aren't anti-American by definition. Someone is feeding you some pretty twisted propaganda. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] frisbird@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago Strawman. Tankies literally have a phrase for this. It's called "critical support", which means supporting the efforts of anti-imperialism while reserving the right to criticize without that critique rising to the level of reversing the support for the anti-imperialist action permalink fedilink source parent
[–] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 days ago It is a zero sum game for them. Who is "them" exactly here? Are you listening to teenagers on TikTok and extrapolating a whole ideology here? Tankies aren't anti-American by definition. Someone is feeding you some pretty twisted propaganda. permalink fedilink source parent
