Ukraine’s National Corruption Prevention Agency added major food corporations PepsiCo and Mars to the “international sponsors of war” list on Sept. 1.

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            They are easily riled and while I doubt there is intentional coordination in place, due to their fervour, they can come across like a brigade. If you speak up against them - cue the hexbears flocking to this comment no doubt - they can get quite vicious, as my comment history will witness.

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          Hexbear sounds like a sigma male hangout. It sure is gay to defederate such a place.

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        Increasingly, “tankies” seem to cover any infraction against the approved anti-russian fervor;

        • if you are not convinced Russia blew up Nord Stream
        • if you are not convinced that Russia blew up a farmer and a tractor in Poland
        • if you are not convinced that Ukraines summer offensive is going all that well
        • if you believe normal Russian people are not evil monsters
        • if you are not convinced that Putin ordered the downing of Prigozhins plane
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          I have been called one just for being critical of the US military, it’s a catch all term for anyone that isnt strictly for capitalist imperialism. I consider it a soft resurgence of the red scare, I cringe each time I see it just like when I see the term lib.

          Both the pro Russian and the pro america-no-matter-the-cost crowds just stink of stupidity imo

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          so given 90% of the planet believe normal Russian people aren’t evil monsters, the default position is tankies?

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          Not really. It’s someone who claims to be liberal or progressive or a way left thinker willing to use force to make the world what they want

          People who diminish or refute Tiananmen Square 1989 are tankies