Check the sidebar for a good descriptive term of what a Tankie is. It really boils down to supporters and actors in favor of the CCP and the USSR, authoritarian communists, people who side with the Tanks used against Hungary and Tienanmen.
China, explicitly Xi Jinping and the chinese state owned TikTok with servers centralized in Beijing, were clear supporters of Trump’s reelection campaign. They love that the USA is weakening, they love that ICE is kicking down people’s doors and dragging them into the night. The USA global trade war has put China in a better position than previously for exports and cheaper imports. They even love Israel’s genocide, China vetoed the only ceasefire resolution that the USA would agree to, with the release of hostages.
Russian and Chinese direct and overt support of Iran, who funded and armed the fighters in Gaza who attacked the music festival to reignite the war, and direct support of Syrian dictatorship, are just as atrocious as Republicans invading Iraq and Afghanistan. They’re all just enriching themselves off of an infinite proxy war.
The countless similarities between authoritarianism in China and the USA lead many to call the faux communist brand of authoritarianism as “Red Fascism”.
I haven’t seen tankies like you’re describing, which support the ICE raids and the genocide of Palestinians.
I have seen plenty of support of China and Russia, which I haven’t seen with MAGA supporters (well, sometimes you do see some Russian supporters among them).
If a ‘tankie’ is a supporter of China, Russia, ICE and Israel, then yeah, I can see where you’re coming from.
Maybe I’m a bit naïve, but this does not read as support of ICE to me. More a “leopards are eating my face” moment. The point of the meme is to point out that the horrible things going on now with state-funded kidnappings is comparable to how the USA has acted in the past. To me, this reads as a trigger for Americans who ‘support the troops’ to do some self-reflection.
I can see how you read this as someone celebrating the punishment of American citizens for past American crimes. Of course, you and I know that makes no sense. The most responsible are not affected by the ICE raids, and ‘karmic justice’ doesn’t help anyone anyway. I just don’t think that was their intention.
To be fair, tankies are the opposite of the MAGA crowd? So I’m not really sure what you were getting at.
Tankies support Trump with all their might.
Check the sidebar for a good descriptive term of what a Tankie is. It really boils down to supporters and actors in favor of the CCP and the USSR, authoritarian communists, people who side with the Tanks used against Hungary and Tienanmen.
China, explicitly Xi Jinping and the chinese state owned TikTok with servers centralized in Beijing, were clear supporters of Trump’s reelection campaign. They love that the USA is weakening, they love that ICE is kicking down people’s doors and dragging them into the night. The USA global trade war has put China in a better position than previously for exports and cheaper imports. They even love Israel’s genocide, China vetoed the only ceasefire resolution that the USA would agree to, with the release of hostages.
Russian and Chinese direct and overt support of Iran, who funded and armed the fighters in Gaza who attacked the music festival to reignite the war, and direct support of Syrian dictatorship, are just as atrocious as Republicans invading Iraq and Afghanistan. They’re all just enriching themselves off of an infinite proxy war.
The countless similarities between authoritarianism in China and the USA lead many to call the faux communist brand of authoritarianism as “Red Fascism”.
I haven’t seen tankies like you’re describing, which support the ICE raids and the genocide of Palestinians.
I have seen plenty of support of China and Russia, which I haven’t seen with MAGA supporters (well, sometimes you do see some Russian supporters among them).
If a ‘tankie’ is a supporter of China, Russia, ICE and Israel, then yeah, I can see where you’re coming from.
Might be a satire account but I think I found one in the wild: https://feddit.online/post/1455166/
Maybe I’m a bit naïve, but this does not read as support of ICE to me. More a “leopards are eating my face” moment. The point of the meme is to point out that the horrible things going on now with state-funded kidnappings is comparable to how the USA has acted in the past. To me, this reads as a trigger for Americans who ‘support the troops’ to do some self-reflection.
I can see how you read this as someone celebrating the punishment of American citizens for past American crimes. Of course, you and I know that makes no sense. The most responsible are not affected by the ICE raids, and ‘karmic justice’ doesn’t help anyone anyway. I just don’t think that was their intention.
Which tankies have YOU been hanging out with buddy ? Unless you are a MAGA psyop who want to sow discord amongst Fediverse people ?
Every single tankie I’ve had the displeasure of communicating with has wholeheartedly supported China and Russia and hated the U.S.
They have been ecstatically celebrating what they perceive to be the downfall of the United States.
Then you come stumbling in here like a drunk off a bender claiming this comment.
Fuck tankies, and if you’re a tankie, fuck you especially.
I’ve seen a few tankies with critical support of Trump from an accelerationist point of view.
I think most, if not all, tankies support Putin though.
True, tankies have a lot of bad takes, but being maga isn’t really among them
A friend of mine said ML friends of hers voted Trump, because “Kamala would have made the genocide in Palestine worse”.
I asked my friend why the hell she has ML friends in the first place.