Tankies can get fucked.

[honytawk@feddit.nl]

Of course you are starving when you live in a totalitarian communist regime.

[braininabox@lemmy.ml]

Can you name a single accusation the West has made against China that you don't believe?

[riddersport@feddit.org]

I don't think China wants war with the EU, the USA, SK or Japan.

Apart from that well let's say it is not exactly easy to judge the truth of something when the accused country has a record of not letting the truth be revealed and openly threatening another country with invasion

[boonhet@sopuli.xyz]

Everyone talks about dinner first, then sex. But sex makes hungry. Wouldn't it be better to have sex first, THEN go eat dinner and grab drinks?

[braininabox@lemmy.ml]

I don’t think China wants war with the EU, the USA, SK or Japan.

And why does that not make you a tankie?

the accused country has a record of not letting the truth be revealed and openly threatening another country with invasion

What about when the accusing countries have a record of not letting the truth be revealed and openly actually invading multiple other countries?

[satansmaggotycumfart@lemmy.world]

[riddersport@feddit.org]

Because I am not defending the authoritarianism in China. It is a dictatorship as much as Russia is and as much as the USA is speedrunning towards.
Tianmen Square happened, people got massacred by Chinese military specifically by tanks. And this sentence alone could very well get me banned on .ml

[underpantsweevil@lemmy.world]

Liberals are literally flattening people with tanks in LA and throwing dissidents into gulags in El Salvador, Guantanamo, Bay, and the Florida Everglades.

It's so fucking crazy to see them talk about "Tankies", then rubber stamp another hundred billion dollars for genocide at home and around the world.

[underpantsweevil@lemmy.world]

I am not defending the authoritarianism in China

No. You're defending slavery in Tibet and warlords in Afghanistan. You're sending billions to finance a genocide in Gaza and propping up Hinduvista supremacists in Kashmir. You're sponsoring coups in Venezuela and Bolivia, financing gulags in El Salvador and Honduras, and propping up a former Al Qaeda leader in Syria.

Then you're flooding Columbia college campus with paramilitary to black bag peaceful protesters, torturing dissidents in prisons stretching from Alligator Alcatraz to Abu Garaib, and propping by dictators from Saudi Arabia to the Philippines.

But hey, China Bad. Gotta draw the line somewhere.

[braininabox@lemmy.ml]

Because I am not defending the authoritarianism in China.

Yes, you literally are. You are claiming that an accusation made by the West against China isn't true; that is what you have consistently treated as "defending the authoritarianism in China", so why should you be judged by a different standard. You are a tankie, by the same criteria you use on others.

It is a dictatorship as much as Russia is

Anyone can make assertions, but you have no way to actually back this claim up. It's simply not true.

USA is speedrunning towards

Funny how you can never actually say that a Western country is as bad as it's enemies; it's always "moving towards it". Meanwhile the actual people of China are vastly more happy with the state of their democracy than the US is.

Tianmen Square happened,

Yes - 40 fucking years ago. Do you have any idea how much heinous shit the West has done? Do you have any idea how many orders of magnitude worse then shit the West has done since then? Multiple entire countries have been destroyed. The West is collectively carrying out a modern Holocaust on a population of two million people, right now, and you act like it's self evidently true that something that happened four decades is more horrendous. Maybe take a moment to consider why you have to reach back so far for your "China bad" example, because you sure as fuck wouldn't have to for the West.

people got massacred by Chinese military specifically by tanks.

Can you imagine what Western security forces would do if rioters started stringing up police by nooses and burning them alive? An entire line of tanks stopped for one man in China. In the West they would have rolled right over him.

And this sentence alone could very well get me banned on .ml

No, it couldn't. At worst it might get the comment removed for misinformation (technically there's no evidence that tanks specifically killed anyone), but it would not even get you a temp ban.

[jackeroni@lemmy.ml]

Oh there we go again, the infamous empire manufactured "Chinese genocide"