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This comment was in response to someone expressing regret about joining .ml if I recall correctly

Edit: I'm convinced all this guy does is camp out in front of his computer and wait for an excuse to abuse what itty bitty power he has.

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[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Tankies operate on a very simple belief system.

US bad > Russia don't like US > Russia good

same for north korea, cuba, anything

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

We could call that the Chomsky fallacy.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

they're also all twisted up in pretzels now because russia and the us are aligned. most are going mask off and revealing they've always been pro-russian shills

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

that doesn't surprise me. All extremists love Russia because they've become brainwashed by them. It's really amazing how effective the brainwashing is. Ask a tankie, ask a nazi, any extremist, their views on Russia and they're amazingly positive