this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2024
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Fire Memes for Traitor Haters
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Where we meme (joking in tone and detail, serious in sentiment) about General Sherman, the Civil War, and how the secesh traitors had it coming.
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No Confederate sympathizing. Anti-democratic racist slaver traitors don't deserve shit.
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I’m okay with shitting on their bad takes but this is straw man circle jerking.
Because it's not quoting a specific tankie, or because using a specific example to demonstrate the absurdity of general unqualified 'critical support' is unacceptable?
I mean, fuck's sake, on this very site you can find tankies simping for the fucking Taliban.
I just came across a comment from a Hexbear user criticizing Walz's record on calling in the National Guard during the BLM protests as state-sanctioned violence against Black people. And I kind of agree with their point tbh.
But, if opposing state-sanctioned violence is a firm principle of ML political ideology, like it is for Anarchism, then how come nearly ever tankie I've ever talked to seems perfectly ok with state-sanctioned violence when it's being carried out by Maduro, Putin, Xi, or any number of authoritarian leftists? They only ever seem to have objections when the West employs state-sanctioned violence, funnily enough.
Putin "authoritarian leftists" - Are you sure? He's an oil baron.