The picture is inaccurate because the boot wearer is acknowledging the existence of the tankies, which is giving them far too much credit.
Western imperialism bad 😡
Eastern imperialism good 😇
TIL what a tank is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
Just ask @dessalines@lemmy.ml
you only needed the last nine characters
Yeah man taking the position that china is actually worse for anyone than trump is straight up delusional. Get a grip dude. This is fucking disgusting.
That’s not what I am reading…?
I don’t believe it’s a comparison between the two. More like a meme showing paralels between supporting imperialism from different sources. I say this as someone who thinks USA is a bit worse. But I also think its a garbage to garbage comparison. So theres that.
I wish China was something I could classify as socialist but alas…
Yeah. I mean, we could quibble all day as to their relative awfulness, about where supporting another country’s genocide to the hilt and planning others (Trump) measures against executing an ongoing genocide (PRC and the Uyghurs) weighs, but in both cases, it’s, uh, close enough that I wouldn’t want to be caught dead playing apologist for either. The point is that tankies disdain one boot and love the other, when if they had any sense of decency they would just not lick boots; not that they should love the MAGA boot or prefer it to the PRC’s.
Yeah man taking the position that china is actually worse for anyone than trump is straight up delusional. Get a grip dude. This is fucking disgusting.
what
You know how people always talk about socdems in germany selling out their country to the Nazis because the Communists were just so evil? Thats you right now, super cool stuff man.
The Socdems, who opposed the Nazis until their dissolution, unlike the Communists, who literally allied with the Nazis?
Fucking what?
Ah yes, the well-known bootlickers of US imperialism, the [checks notes]
… anarchists?
Critical thinking is western imperialism.
Regardless of if it is, it isnt used there.
“No u”
I mean you’re not wrong either, but accepting the premise that critical thinking is anathema to tankies is pretty funny.
Marxism is based on scientific method, if you need to figure out if it’s actually an anathema to them.
MLs are no more scientific in their approach than the fucking Nazis were. Saying “IT’S OBJECTIVE REALITY” loudly and repeatedly might make for good propaganda to the braindead, but it’s not much of an actual argument. And, for the record, the ML disdain for even basic precepts of Marxism does not make them particularly appropriate heirs to Marxist thought.
I mean, if they’re posting about how shit countries are that actually prioritize the well-being of their citizens over corporate profit, yeah, I would say they’re doing propaganda for the Western imperial core.
Yes they prioritize the well being of their citizens over corporate profit in favor of… creating an ethnostate.
Do you want to live in an ethnostate? Would it make you feel better if all the minorities were gone?
Edit: just admit you’re racist you fucking coward
Uh, would you like to remind me about the level of corporate profits experienced by firms in the PRC?
My bad I should’ve put “Anarchists”
It doesn’t seem like you know what an anarchist is
