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Good thing the tankies are here to protect these powerful capitalist governments (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (5 children)

This hits home as an Iranian. Tankies seem to really like the Islamic Regime because it opposes Israel.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's especially bizarre considering what lengths the Islamic Republic has went through to suppress leftists.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Khomeini used leftists' help to overthrow the Shah and get in power and then got rid of them. They are supporting the regime that backstabbed them. What's even funnier is that Iranian leftists sometimes praise the Islamic Republic for being "anti imperialist". Like the Islamic Republic didn't help Asad remain in power in Syria, or use Hezbollah to meddle in Lebanon. The Islamic Republic fights against western imperialism because it wants to create its own empire.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The absolute conspiracy brain of tankies to believe that the U.S. propaganda machine is so powerful that everyone in it knows the exact opposite of the truth about the rest of the world but somehow the correct facts made it to the public forums the tankies browse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Pretty impressive considering the US is literally a failed state with an economic system due to collapse any minute now from the internal contradictions

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Which is odd because the Iranians I've talked to are against US imperialism because it led to the current Iranian government

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Opposing Israel is cool. Wish more countries would do it

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Still, opposing Israel is not an excuse to ignore the crimes committed by the Islamic Republic. As an example, The Islamic Republic was allied with Assad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_intervention_in_the_Syrian_civil_war

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_Syrian_civil_war#Ba'athist_Syrian_Armed_Forces_and_allied_forces

[+] [email protected] -9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The one downside of hexbear being back is that I'm gonna see the word "tankie" a lot again. I'm so sick of it. I was sick of seeing it a year or two ago I'm sick of it now and will always be sick of it.

All words are made up but tankie just makes me think, go the fuck outside and touch grass

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean the word works, fits and is descriptive. Do you have another word for people who fit the criteria?

Maybe privileged-ignorant-authoritarian-self-proclaimed-leftist might fit if it wasn’t so long.

Maybe going with German might work. Privilegiertunwissendautoritärselbsternannterlinker?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Authoritarian Apologist. The most neutral, and accurate

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Authoritarian supporters. Most don't just excuse the authoritarian regimes, they actively support them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I’m thinking apologist is a good word here. It fits the religious overtones of how they behave.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apologetics

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

All words are made up but tankie just makes me think, go the fuck outside and touch grass

Would touching grass make us forget history?

I suppose intellectuals are dangerous counterrevolutionaries. As Lenin once said, after all, the educated classes are the 'shit' of the nation, not its brains. "No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death against the rich and their hangers-on, the bourgeois intellectuals!"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Substitute the T from tankie with W.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I missed them being back. Last thing I knew people were driving up the price of the domain. Can anybody fill me in?