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[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

Most coherent liberal

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

Sorry, tankies, but opposing war is something Stalin—and by extension Hitler, because they are identical men—would do. And as Putin is Hitler, that means Putin is also Stalin, ipso facto you support World War 3.

very-intelligent

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"a standing ovation for an SS nazi is fine, just don't question the bourgeois line on the proxy war"

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

The government has to apologize for that event after some zionist organization broke it (of course there were some left adjacent orgs that looked into it before hand but it was not taken seriously)

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

i don't think the NDP needs Yve Engler to destroy the party, Singh doing entryism for the Liberals for years did that.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Lmao these assholes are absolutely allergic to power. "No we can't have a leader that takes an actual radical stance! It'll kill the party you tankie! We have to keep being a more useless version of the liberals, that's doing great for the party" maybe-later-kiddo

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

how long till libs in the NDP accuses Yves Engler of being Hamas?

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

He got arrested last year for Palestinian activism when some nameless organization astrotuffed a smear campaign against him

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

He was arrested four months ago, and it wasn't a "nameless organisation" it was a psycho zionist named Dahlia Kurtz

https://yvesengler.com/2025/03/04/my-5-days-in-jail-as-political-prisoner-for-criticizing-israel/

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

WASP looking ass woman

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Everyone I don't like is a tankie! kitty-cri-screm

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

doing the bare minimum of Canada's claimed mission in upholding international law is being tankie/hamas

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

International law is tankiescri

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

living at the same time as reddit is so embarrassing man.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Singh already did the job of killing whatever little that was left of NDP after Mulcair but sure it's "tankies".

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Putin is a reactionary autocrat who embodies the worst traits of State tyranny - nationalistic, militaristic, and hostile towards personal and workplace freedom - even if his oligarchic capitalism and Soviet nostalgia contradict a strict 'far-right' label.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

autocrat

"Putin has absolute personal power" and other lines favored by Anne Applebaum

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

Why yes, Putin is an autocrat, his highly personalized and centralized system of power lacks meaningful checks and balances. He suppresses dissent, and operates largely on his personal whims rather than any sort of institutional governance.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

seems like this is so subjective it can be applied to any government you don't like. I don't think you have any real evidence for it all being his personal whims beyond Applebaum-tier articles in The Atlantic. on a larger level, this is Great Man Theory bullshit with zero material analysis

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

My cat is autocratic when he decides that dinner time should be at 5 instead of 6.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Is he the shaytan al akbar however? Perhaps he's a shaytan al saghir, tho.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Opposing one tyranny by excusing another betrays the essence of liberation - solidarity fights all oppression, not just the West's. Revolutionary ethics demand consistency, selective outrage that shields authoritarianism under the guise of anti-imperialism is not how we should conduct ourselves.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

authoritarianism

gotta be my favorite way to dismiss any use of state power I don't agree with

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Russia is deeply authoritarian, and built on the oppression of the people by the State and capital. What would you consider authoritarianism to be?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

so authoritarian is when capitalist state? that doesn't seem like a useful definition to me

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

I'm sorry that you find the word 'authoritarian' upsetting, however it does have a commonly agreed upon definition. I personally see no need to pretend otherwise.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Whether you go by Juan Linz's definition - the origin of the term as used in a political sense - or Bob Altemeyer's later refinement it's clear that Russia fits this label as it was laid out by its originators.

So no, I do not use terminology on the basis of my personal likes or dislikes. I use these terms because they mean something, as laid out by the political theorists who originated them.

So again, I apologize that some words may make you feel itchy, or maybe a little self-conscious. Through, you should note that self-reflection is good, and you shouldn't shun perceivably negative terms because they may (or may not) play into your belief system.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

A word has a meaning of how its used. Its used as "a country liberals (white supremacists) don't like" (because it doesn't let its citizens get genocided by the west).

[-] yourebrainwashed 2 points 1 month ago

Also Putin is white

[-] yourebrainwashed 2 points 1 month ago

Putin is allied with netanyahu. Are ALL lemmists dumb?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Hey, I'm not! It's amusing that authoritarian socialists get accused of excusing authoritarianism under the guise of anti-imperialism, while failing to address the reactionary nature of regimes like Putin's though indeed. Especially to the point of proudly exclaiming that the term 'authoritarianism' has no value in theory or praxis - a dead give away to their true nature, and oddly incapable of owning such a label.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

What would you consider authoritarianism to be?

A meaningless, inconsistently applied word born out of a fetish for idealism that is primarily used to deem any state opposed to Western hegemony as irredeemable and worthy of condemnation.

[-] yourebrainwashed 3 points 1 month ago

Russia is definitely ruled by westerner lmao.

The weapon industry need enemies. Ever heard of the 90ies when America coup'ed russia and they starved for 10 years

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Authoritarianism is when sovereign and not ruled by westerners (according to the way imperialists use the word)

Its a good thing (for us, not for you)

[-] yourebrainwashed 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Russia is literally ruled by westerners. Both in a colonial sense (Siberia is a colony), political (they're an oligarchy) and in the geopolitical one.

If their oligarchs don't create wars how else is Lockheed Martin supposed to sell missile?

Putin is literally the tsar.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

"Authoritarianism bad"

Imperialist detected. Are the pesky authoritarians putting up resistance to your world genocide again, instead of rolling over like you want them to?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/ch06.htm

The same must be said of the revolutionary character of national movements in general. The unquestionably revolutionary character of the vast majority of national movements is as relative and peculiar as is the possible revolutionary character of certain particular national movements. The revolutionary character of a national movement under the conditions of imperialist oppression does not necessarily presuppose the existence of proletarian elements in the movement, the existence of a revolutionary or a republican programme of the movement, the existence of a democratic basis of the movement. The struggle that the Emir of Afghanistan is waging for the independence of Afghanistan is objectively a revolutionary struggle, despite the monarchist views of the Emir and his associates, for it weakens, disintegrates and undermines imperialism; whereas the struggle waged by such "desperate" democrats and "Socialists," "revolutionaries" and republicans as, for example, Kerensky and Tsereteli, Renaudel and Scheidemann, Chernov and Dan, Henderson and Clynes, during the imperialist war was a reactionary struggle, for its results was the embellishment, the strengthening, the victory, of imperialism.

[-] yourebrainwashed 1 points 1 month ago

Putin is allied with netanyahu

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[-] yourebrainwashed 3 points 1 month ago

Anyway i hope you're loved ones are ok friend. Free palestine

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[-] yourebrainwashed 4 points 1 month ago

Guy in 1916: jee I don't wanna die in a trench

Obnoxious idiot: OMG wouldn'y that make you a tankie?

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