• blackn1ght
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    3 days ago

    The tankie communities are definitely seeing the fall of Assad as a very bad thing. I was surprised at first, but then not surprised that they’d be supportive of dictator that aligns with Russia.

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      2 days ago

      Tankies love violent oppression of the people, and I genuinely don’t understand how they could be that fucked in the head.

      I can at least understand the logic of a wealthy fascist, they’re violent and greedy and competitive and want to completely dominate their workforce from the top by any means available.

      I guess maybe tankies feel like they could benefit from the same cynical exploitation except their position of dominance would be from a generously funded office of propagandists or something? The same way Hegseth rose from opinionated Fox News host to a government position, so would they want to rise from their Twitter/Bluesky/Twitch influencer role?

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        2 days ago

        It’s a double edged sword. Assad gone is a good thing, however it remains to be seen that it’s a good thing for the people of Syria, only time will tell. But you can’t cling onto a shitty dictator on the off chance that things might be worse. The people of Syria certainly seem to be happy about it.

        From the Tankie perspective, they couldn’t give a flying fuck about the people of Syria, only what it means for the “unity” of anti-US aligned countries such as Iran & Russia.