He's talking about the tankies that keep defending a fascist regime with a colonialist imperialistic mindset. My prediction is that either they are raging homophobes themselves like papa Stalin or they will ignore it.
These people see the world through: "USA bad". It's the only thing they believe. So if the US criticize a place, like Russia, then it must be good because the US is bad.
Is the US fucking awful? Yes. Is this a completely moronic way of looking at the world? Also yes.
There's also the bizarre phenomena of "leftist" people who support Russia, Iran, etc.
I was on a date once (gay) and he would shit-talk the US, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, etc. for being capitalistic. Then in the same breath, talk about how he wanted to go to Iran and Russia.
I honestly didn't know what to say.
The political spectrum a circle. Go far enough around, and it loops back to itself right around fascism and communism. Plus, all the crazy shit like anti-vaxxers and all that bullshit. Killing minorities is a favorite pasttime of both groups, throughout WW2 and the postwar, red/lavender scare era. And it's starting back up again.
Lol, wanting to go to a country that is happy to persecute you for who you are... That's warped.
Yeah it seems to be a series of fallacies like,
Conservatives hate gays, so conservatives are bad.
Conservatives love capitalism, so capitalism is bad.
The west is mostly capitalistic, so I hate the west.
The west sanction Iran and Russia, so they must be good.
I think it's better to draw the line at hating controlling abusive people, rather than geopolitical boundaries.
There are a lot of people/instances/admins on lemmy who love everything authoritarian fascist Putin does, but call themselves left.
I guess he thinks left=stanilist.
Sounds like people who think that socialism is when the government does stuff.
Could you elaborate?
He's talking about the tankies that keep defending a fascist regime with a colonialist imperialistic mindset. My prediction is that either they are raging homophobes themselves like papa Stalin or they will ignore it.
These people see the world through: "USA bad". It's the only thing they believe. So if the US criticize a place, like Russia, then it must be good because the US is bad.
Is the US fucking awful? Yes. Is this a completely moronic way of looking at the world? Also yes.
There's also the bizarre phenomena of "leftist" people who support Russia, Iran, etc.
I was on a date once (gay) and he would shit-talk the US, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, etc. for being capitalistic. Then in the same breath, talk about how he wanted to go to Iran and Russia.
I honestly didn't know what to say.
The political spectrum a circle. Go far enough around, and it loops back to itself right around fascism and communism. Plus, all the crazy shit like anti-vaxxers and all that bullshit. Killing minorities is a favorite pasttime of both groups, throughout WW2 and the postwar, red/lavender scare era. And it's starting back up again.
Lol, wanting to go to a country that is happy to persecute you for who you are... That's warped.
Yeah it seems to be a series of fallacies like,
Conservatives hate gays, so conservatives are bad. Conservatives love capitalism, so capitalism is bad. The west is mostly capitalistic, so I hate the west. The west sanction Iran and Russia, so they must be good.
I think it's better to draw the line at hating controlling abusive people, rather than geopolitical boundaries.
There are a lot of people/instances/admins on lemmy who love everything authoritarian fascist Putin does, but call themselves left.
I guess he thinks left=stanilist.
Sounds like people who think that socialism is when the government does stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgiC8YfytDw
The fact he used the expression alleged, indicates he knows they are actually fascists cosplaying as socialists.
Yeah, exactly. But fascist instances like lemmy.ml ban you for such outrageous statements.
I mean technically tankies are still lefties. (By definition of economical left)
Both alleged and the fact that left is italicized really makes me think they're meaning "leftists (air quotes)"