That guy is not a tankie tho? Do you have some actual proof he is tankie?
He is just an Israel shill and a genocide apologist.
Loves running around fediverse endlessly crying about “antisemetism” while promoting killing Palestinians.
Classic Israeli supporter.
I am admittedly being lax with the definition, but they are certainly defending an authoritarian state and their atrocities committed in service of an ideological state project.
but they are certainly defending an authoritarian state and their atrocities in service of an ideological state project.
that’s just a generic authoritarian. tankie specifically shill perverted version of communism based on Lenin/Stalin/Mao, excusing their crimes and glorifying history of USSR as something that was good.
They do side with Palestinians on this issue, mainly because Israel is supported by Imperial US.
Idk, I guess I don’t see the point of the distinction, they’re both still defending authoritarian atrocities along ideological lines.
Unless the point is that they’re nominally communist and that somehow makes them uniquely or especially bad?
If that’s the case then it more seems like we’re being selectively critical of communism, not authoritarianism.
tankie is has a specific meaning, ie a communist who will enforce his will with a barrel of the tank, refering when USSR invaded its EE satellites to prevent popular liberalization.
what makes them bad is justifying state violence.
communism is a separate topic from the tankie imho. they are just parasites shilling foreign state actors narratives or larping because life in williamsburg is too good.
ie a communist who will enforce his will with a barrel of the tank
Sure, but how is that meaningfully different than a Zionist enforcing his will with a barrel of a tank?
Tankie pretends to follow the Marxist-leninist school of thought… however, they are not very good at actual marxism, they prefer that hard metal style communism and propaganda.
Israelis pretend to follow the old bible.
We might disagree on what counts as meaningful.
Zionists don’t enforce their will with the barrel of a tank. They protect their nation with the barrel of a tank. Big difference.
Ya know what, you’re right, that’s exactly what this looks like now that you mention it
“Tankie fuckwad archomrade doesn’t understand the meaning of words, news at 11”
I say “doesn’t understand”, but of course, as Sartre pointed out, fascist cunts don’t believe in the meaning of words, only in pursuing their own fascist goals by whatever abuse and disingenuous misuse of language they can get their hands on.
As long as we’re calling out the abuse and disingenuous misuse of language, maybe we should examine your use of the word ‘fascist’
Tell me more about how tankies hitting 12 out of 14 points of Umberto Eco’s ur-fascism is totally not-fascist. /s
Sorry, maybe I misunderstood you. It really seemed like you were calling me a fascist cunt
Well, I’m calling you a tankie, and tankies are fascist cunts. So yes.
Whoops, missed the part where you justified the use of the terms ‘tankie’ and ‘fascist’ again, maybe you hit reply before finishing on accident
Whoops, missed the part where you justified the use of the terms ‘tankie’ and ‘fascist’ again, maybe you hit reply before finishing on accident
lol
ah, well, I tried
I thought tankies generally liked to point out the hypocrisy of the Western “rules based order” and generally took the side of Palestine or even Hamas in this conflict?
This looks like garden variety hasbara to me.
I am with this person on this
Yeah that guy’s shitty but he isn’t a tankie. More of an alt righter
not defending the 40k number by any means because no one really can source its information correctly, but the reason why a decent chunk of the deaths in palestine are children is because the average age of Palestinians is very low (~18), so in terms of wiping various buildings down via explosives statistically speaking, there will be people under 18 in that explosion.
how many of them are under 10 will be a TBD state till after the conflict, but its definitely reasonable to assume a chunk of minors died in the conflict simply by law of averages and how the targeting is done.
There are a bunch of reasons why the death toll is so hard to pin down, but a big one is that Israel has been denying access to Gaza for most journalists, as well as a suspiciously high death rate among journalists who have been allowed in. The few that are allowed inside are escorted by the IDF and aren’t allowed to venture outside their supervision.
That said, the most recent reporting from Gaza suggests that the official numbers are being wildly under reported, and could be as high as 118,908 or greater.
All of which is utterly unsurprising, considering the vast majority of bomb targets have been civilian buildings and infrastructure (Hamas is always lurking somewhere inside, apparently), and that ~60% of Gaza has been damaged or completely destroyed.
You should study the Warsaw uprising. That’s the situation in Gaza. Everybody knows somebody in Hamas or affiliated with Hamas. Because Israel effectively sealed off the strip and closed all of The crossings years ago, the only way to get goods in and out is underground tunnels that lead into Egypt. Those tunnels are owned, operated and controlled by Hamas. This forced necessary daily goods to be moved underground through those tunnels as well. That commerce enriches Hamas. It also makes them indispensable to the community. So there is a large amount of the population that deals with them on a weekly or daily basis. Not all of them are fighters but they’re all affiliated. Israel has mostly forced them into that situation. So yes they are firing on Hamas members. However, they also forced a large amount of those people to become Hamas members. It’s a real damned if you do damned if you don’t situation because you’re an acceptable casualty. If you’re a bystander and they hit someone that is a Hamas member.
Which is why the only way to ever start unfuck this situation is to provide an economic base and opportunities for the people there some magical organization to provide employment in education and not be biased to the population and not to be influenced or run by Hamas or its affiliates. If only there was a super rich oil Nation right there that believes in most of the same things as the people in Palestine that could help their brothers out.
No, what’s happening in Gaza is nothing like the Warsaw Uprising.
Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005. Pulled out every single soldier and uprooted 9000 settlers. The people of Gaza responded to that act of good faith by putting Hamas in charge. Hamas violently overthrew their political rivals, murdered them all, and then began launching rockets into Israel. That’s why Israel implemented a blockade and fenced the place in. And Oct 7, 2023, was a demonstration of exactly why that was necessary. That attack would have happened much earlier and on a much larger scale if there were no blockade in place.
I can’t put my finger on what is going on here… but are we moving definition of a child to under 10?
Also, is it acceptable that half of dead are children if half of Gaza are under 18?
This is a weird ass comment lol
You don’t understand, 40 trillion people died
Actually those are Hamas numbers, only 40 people died.
Sorry I downvoted your comment about liking this comm last week, you don’t have to have piss fit and pretend to not know what the word tankie means about it
