Nothing says desperation like going to a country even more sanctioned to buy some weapons.

Tankies.

You can’t have a discussion about anything without some tankie blaming it on Ukrainians / the west / capitalism, etc.

“Oh you stubbed your toe on the table? See, tables are oppressive furniture of the bourgeoisie. The Chinese government wanted to make all tables toe-stubbing resistent, but that would affect IKEA’s bottom line and the pharmaceutical industry’s profits. I have a source from tankiepeoplesmagazine to back this up.”

Russia is not even pretending to be communist anymore. It’s a full blown corrupt capitalist oligarchy. But just because it’s not an US ally, they will defend it.

I’ve always leaned left, and not in the “American Democrat” way. I’ve read Marx, Engels, Kropotkin, Luxemburg, etc. Not that I agree with them on everything, but they make good points.

But every day I see tankies defend Russia just because it’s not the US, I feel like I’m moving more center just out of spite.

I’ve had a tankie acuse me of being libelous against North Korea by mentioning their human rights abuses.

When I presented links to the UN’s reports on the subject, they just got stuck in a loop asking for sources for my claims.

Normally I’d agree with you, but I’ve read enough posts from Lemmy tankies that I cannot be sure anymore.

Not at the moment.

But as an account ages, you might leak more and more info about yourself, (e.g. IP addresses, interests based on what you post about, etc). If you then add on a personal detail like age, someone with bad intentions might be able to narrow down who you might be.

Now we know you’re lying about that.

Or do we? You might be poly.

I guess tankies are now making accounts in other instances so that they don’t get blocked.

I didn’t join the fediverse to have my data harvested.

Just check out any news article outside Lemmy.world on the Ukrainian war or China.

It always gets flooded by accounts from lemmygrad and hexbear doing mental gymnastics and whataboutism to justify whatever Russia or China are doing.

When it stops being relevant in the cultural consciousness.

One of the reasons people use Twitter is for up-to-date news and notifications on events. As official organisations move away from it and the user experience degrades, it will just fade away like MySpace.

You can already see this happening. My guess is that it will just go on slow decline. I would bet Twitter will not be nearly as relevant in a year.

Don’t worry, lemmygrad will be here in a second with a bunch of whataboutism about the US.

They also competed naked.

Definitely a more sophisticated time.

They have to beat the UK, Japan, and Germany.

None are economies on the rise (and the UK is doing poorly, they might already have surpassed them).

Wouldn’t be surprised if it eventually happens, but beating all 3 in five years might be a stretch.

EDIT: this is nominal GDP. They will definitely not reach the same GDP per capita anytime soon.

Tankie propaganda on lemmy?

I’m shocked. /s

Tankies.

Thanks! Would you be able to elaborate a bit more?

It was my understanding that this is not the same thing as running an exit node.

That’s true.

However, I feel like the ones from lemmygrad are slightly more unhinged.

I’m just gonna sit back and enjoy the tankies from lemmygrad denying or trying to justify this one as well. 🍿