Ok. One of the first ones I remember reading about a few decades ago got a lot of news coverage at the time. In San Diego a bunch of drunk Secret Service agents started a bar fight and beat the shit out of a couple guys. One of the Secret Service agents bit a mans ear off during the fight.
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USSS earned their reputation over many decades. That is not the only incident (and if I recall correctly, that incident was a lot more "involved" than your description).
That shield is much larger than I would expect. It looks like it would be a challenge to maneuver with it given how tall it is.
Are you surprised then? There's a disproportionate number of tankies on Lemmy relative to anywhere else and they have a habit of poor yet aggressive argumentation. For libs who are ignorant of political ideologies and encounter tankies for the first time here they usually have no idea that tankies aren't actually communists or socialists or leftists. They don't know what leftists really are and so tankies become the stereotype for them. If you keep encountering assholes who tell you they are leftists you're going to think that all leftists are assholes. I think that's gone on enough here now that the reputation of tankies gets turned into a broad brush and perhaps gets applied inaccurately to actual leftists. You can blame libs for being ignorant but its understandable given the context here.
Fascists who like to cosplay as communists are still fascists.
Who are you talking about? Libs mostly don't even know what tankies are, they aren't generally going around using the term as an epithet. I think there's more LaRouchites than tankies in the US, it's an obscure and politically irrelevant tiny little slice of the population that 99% of people have no idea about. The only reason anyone talks about them on Lemmy is because there's a disproportionate amount here and a number of them like to make a nuisance of themselves. The people who dislike tankies are almost exclusively actual communists and Marxists and socialists and anarchists, and generally people of the left who are in any way knowledgeable about history or politics. No else even gives a shit about them.
Their banking sector at least went through reforms following the 2008 crisis. They are required to be less risky in certain ways than they were pre-GFC and have gone through a bunch of stress testing over the years.
If they win this argument in the Supreme Court they can ship whoever they want outside the borders of the US and that's it, you have no recourse.
How are they baseless? I think of the tankies I've known over the years and these assertions fit them perfectly. They do exactly all of these things, its like they have a script. I spent a good amount of time around tankies in college and they would regularly get into dumb arguments with the communists and anarchists about literally each one of the things listed.
It looks more like he was doing the best he could to behave ethically. He can't lie to the judge so he didn't. There's not really anything else he could have done without violating his duty to the court.
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After the fall of the USSR he was a major funding source for anti-corruption and pro-democracy efforts that disempowered Russian interests in several countries. White supremacists sharing Russian propaganda back then is where the conspiracy theory started, at least in the US.