Putin says past U.S. elections were rigged
yahoo.com
(Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin, running for a new six-year term in an election that his opponents say is a parody of democracy, said on Tuesday that past U.S. elections had been rigged by postal voting.
"In the United States, previous elections were falsified through postal voting ... they bought ballots for $10, filled them out, and threw them into mailboxes without any supervision from observers, and that's it," Putin said, without providing evidence.
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I consider it's misuse a much bigger problem than actual tankies. Tankies are a vast minority in leftist spaces, even on the Internet. They are a totally irrelevant faction to anything, especially national politics. I suppose we won't see eye to eye here.
On the rest, I absolutely agree. I'm the active mod of !leftism@lemmy.world and our top rule is no genocide denial. Every comment I've removed on the subject has been in support of Israel killing civilians, so I don't think it has anything to do with tankies in the first place.
If you hadn't replied to PugJesus, this would have remained a comment among many others, and reduced the visibility of antitankie comments. Now, you've made this a whole thread.
Just let it slide. Don't jump to their defense. Let the actual tankies marginalize themselves into oblivion and you'll help solve 2 Lemmy problems at once: tankism, and abusive antitankism (since there won't be a need for genuine antitankism anymore).
What could have been a quick "aye, fuck tankies" is creating entire threads, and makes us talk about it.