I'm not one to post often. I'm not really one to rant to strangers online often, even. But, after migrating from r*ddit to lemmy, I've had this on my mind and this seemed like the place to vent.
I see discourse about tankies constantly on Lemmy. This struck me as odd. Why are these so called tankies such a threat? Why do I see people calling themselves left-wing and attacking tankies more voraciously than neoliberals and, sometimes, even fascists?
I think I know the answer, just as well as most people who will read this. These are the Zizeks of the world: people who do indeed think in a left-wing oriented way, but fail to recognise that they're also Western to the core and the biases that come with that.
I sincerely care about this much less than the actual reason I'm making this post. That is: why don't these people notice that their talking points, left-oriented as they may seem, always end up supporting US allies or attacking US enemies? I mean, do these people not see that Ukraine winning the war is a boon to the US, regardless of who is "right" in that conflict? Many other such cases, but I think I've made my point, or, rather, my confusion, clear.
That's it. That's the post.
Tankies refuse to support the holocaust even though we're laughing maniacally and talking about how joyful we are while advocating for a more lethal military.
Tankies refuse to give tanks to Ukrainian Nazis.
Tankies don't have an internal map of ~~races~~ countries capable of self-determination with all of the non-white countries listed as bad unless they're militarily occupied by a good white country.
Tankies read books written about non-white self-determination that I equate with Mein Kampf instead of books written for children and US State Department propaganda.
They're digusting. Just as bad as the non-white leader I'm going to depict with a 1910s racial stereotype.