• Veraticus@lib.lgbt
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    1 year ago

    There’s enough weird pro-Russian tankies around I’d believe it’s at least partially native.

    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      10 downvotes within 5 minutes of a post going up is very suspect, I’d be shocked if it wasn’t bot activity

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        Eh. I get a bunch of downvotes every time I post on lemmy.world/c/conservative even if Im just posting the text of a law.

        I think that some here are just very liberal with the downvote button.

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          1 year ago

          The more apt comparison is posting the text of law to /r/law and immediately getting 10 downvotes.

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        The tankie unifying ideology is something closer to “everything that is anti-US is good” rather than a coherent narrative about something that actually unifies historical or current communist dictatorships. So there tends to be a fair amount of Russian simping or Russia/US both-sides equivocation.

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        Dude. Who knows? They don’t make the slightest amount of sense. Tanky is more just anti-west than anything meaningful now. They’re braindead.

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        It’s pure tribalism at that level, nothing to do with logic or even principles.

        In that specific tribe Russia = Good, US = Bad, always and with no case-by-case analysis.

        (Mind you, I did once turned a tankie away from that by pointing out that Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine was the same kind of thing as the US’ second invasion of Iraq so it made sense to judge the invaders in both exactly in the same way. Granted this was back in the early days of the invasion and I reckon that anybody who still remains pro-Russia now is either an authoritarian at hearth or a brainless unprincipled parrot).