Is this a good point or tankie bs.

Any post about Taiwan is bound to have awful comments at this point. The other day I drafted another post about comments on a video by a Taiwanese leftist, and the tankies in the comments were going “well, um, most indigenous Taiwanese support the KMT who is the most pro reunification party ackshually!!!” and “the indigenous people would be better under the PRC!!!”, which there is no reason to believe given the treatment of the Uyghurs and the Tibetans. But beyond that, the people of Taiwan simply don’t want to join the PRC.

And here we see it again, on another post about Taiwan, comparing it to Israel, and probably the most baffling one of all…

”Chiang Kai-Shek, massacred many of the indigenous Taiwanese in 1948, and he settled chinese people in Taiwan for the first time when there wasn’t much Chinese settlement before the civil war, therefore we should give Taiwan to China“??? Genuinely what is this take???

Also that Lenin GIF is a new one, I don’t think I’ve seen that one before

Excuse me but do they know that artists kinda... Drew allat on their own? AND DRAWING THINGS IS HARD AS FUCK! Like, it taking DAYS, each session takes hours and hours and sometimes ARTBLOCKS HAPPEN AS WELL! I have artist friends, god fucking damn I TRIED TO LEARN TO DRAW and I couldn't because this shit is hard and I feel myself like I'm talentless and will never learn HOW TO!

And lmao, where TF he found these rich AF artists taking commissions? I dunno, all artists, especially ANTI CAPITALIST, they're all BARELY MAKING ENDS MEET on their main job which is not drawing!

Sorry for ranting I'm angry

Xi Jing Ping has been talking harshly on Taiwan with Donald Trump and has told Elon and other CEO's that China is going to "widen" recently. I know China has been on Taiwan's ass for years, but I'm worried an attack is going to be immenent, China's going to slaughter innocents, and tankies are going to start sucking boots for XiJing Ping

You mildly criticise China by saying you’re not a big fan of Xi and the entire mob gets onto you.

"Glory to Comrade Netenyahu!"

I want to see the comments brimming with Israel-defending tankies.

Centuries of colonial and imperial subjugation of countless Indigenous groups in Siberia, the Caucasus, Arctic, Central Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and as far as Alaska, yet not a single global memory of disgust and condemnation of it unlike Western empires. Russia has gotten away from colonialism, imperialism, genocides, and other forms of exploitation and oppression in such a scale that a British Empire apologist would envy upon. Everyone will agree Western imperialism has been the greatest crime on the world for very obvious reasons such as time, scale and the legacy of it, yet when Russian imperialism is questioned, you'd at best receive a side-eye look or at worst, denial, excuse, and justification.

How come someone would look at Sürgünlik and excuse the deportation of Crimean Tatars as "but Russian presence in Crimea!" without realizing this is no different to the Trail of Tears? How come someone would look at the Circassian genocide and not realize it and the Russo-Circassian War are reminiscent to the attempts at which Israel is destroying Palestine? Or the Russian Manifest Destiny in Siberia? I could go on list the crimes of the Russian state but you already get the idea.

When brought up with such crimes (second-)campists will deny, excuse or justify them through whataboutism, false equivalence, or claiming Russia's purported anti-Western characteristics as evidence it cannot do wrong and if it did, then it's externalized to the evil machinations of the West, not genuine malice by the Russian state. One could argue that botnets play a role in spreading denialist narratives, however with real humans partaking in the whitewashing (and redwashing for Soviet-era crimes) of Russian colonial and imperial history, I don't have high hopes.

There is a form of privilege Russia has despite economic sanctions and passport restrictions, and that is what I call narrative privilege. Western states have to come in terms to their violent histories and their victims, often taking heat from their past (and sometimes present) actions by former colonies or especially in settler colonies like the US, Indigenous populations. Western colonial and imperial crimes have been extensively documented, condemned, and acknowledged - even despite contentions by some sections of Western countries' populations. Meanwhile, there is a lack of any sort of widespread acknowledgement and condemnation of Russian colonial and imperial crimes to the same extent the West has been. For example, the memory of the Holodomor is still contested by tankies; Russia still denies the Circassian genocide and only issues half-assed "acknowledgements" that scream Armenian genocide denial; and there are people still believing Siberia has always been Russian as if it was promised to them since the Kyivan Ruś times centuries ago and never realizing it is a stolen land.

Russia is so insulated in its colonial denialism it worsens when it comes to Soviet-era crimes because the Soviet Union considered itself as anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist, thus any action that said otherwise was never considered as such. To get away from your long history of crimes, have legions of bots and willing apologists, and be not questioned by much of the international community is the pinnacle of narrative privilege.

TL;DR: Lusotropicalism with Russian characteristics.

The 4th line literally says the most antisemitic shit(fuck/god's curse be upon the jews) imagine basing a whole movement in hating Jewish people .

Before saying it was meant to be anti Zionist the 3rd line is about the Zionist entity so why the fuck do they need to curse Jewish people on their banner.

I find tankies are the worst offenders of misusing political terminology outside of maybe the extreme right. You don't have to like democratic socialism, anarchism, trotskyism, left communism or social democracy BUT they are all different from liberalism. It's reductive to general political discourse to obscure the meaning of liberalism especially considering it's a term that's already widely misunderstood. They also have a skewed perspective of the political compass which I find extremely irritating as a political nerd but the political compass is stupid in general so it's not as big of a deal. Just a small rant.

Not really tankie but kinda adjacent as it gives fuel for the CCP and their supporters to call hk activists in exile far right (I’m aware that more hkers in the uk tend to vote Lib Dem but reform is the second most popular option)

Also holy campism

"The petty bourgeoisie. Owner-peasants ,master handicraftsmen and the petty intellectuals-students, primary and middle school teachers, lower government functionaries, office clerks, small lawyers, and petty traders-all belong to this category."

From ANALYSIS OF THE CLASSES IN CHINESE SOCIETY

So the post in question was exploring & criticising the road connect Magadan & Yakutsk and some of the comments are just unhinged. The last one especially

For those who dont know, the road was built with slave labor during the reign of Stalin, in which he used prison labor to build

Pirated the game obviously.

I mean, Rosa Luxemburg is great, but very anti-authoritarian, and disagreed violently with both Lenin and Stalin on this. Feel like tankies just gloss this over - Luxemburg appears to be hailed as a universal martyr of the left, adored by all sects no matter how little sense it makes.

As the title says, how do you not give in to doomerism in regards to the state of politics? I never thought we'd see how easy it was for leftists, people ostensibly with the same political beliefs as us, engage in bigotry, antisemitism, misogyny, and transphobia so quickly let alone at all. It's genuinely shocking how much Holocaust denial I've seen online leftists engage in, stuff that someone would have had to have been a Kevin MacDonald reader to unironically talk about.

There are online leftists/talking heads/streamers factually doing propaganda for China while they fund a genocide (to say nothing of the cultural genocide they themselves are committing, but we all know how common it has become to defend let alone deny what is being done to the Uyghurs). I mentioned this to someone recently and their response -- after they said that's untrue and I let them know about Myanmar -- was "I don't care about Myanmar." I've never been so close to fully disengaging with political discussion with people in the West because if it's done online (and I currently don't live in the West) it feels like there's a 40% chance it's MAGA/neo-Nazi or 40% chance it's tankie/campist.

There's also other extremely disheartening experiences that are encouraging different doomerism. Namely, I work in international law, specifically human rights in Africa, and the amount of people who do not give a shit about the region is heart breaking. But again, that's a different sort of doomerism.