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    3 years ago

    I am not defending them

    that’s all you do here. not really anything more.

    nearly 100 year old examples and thus drawing false analogies.

    what’s false analogies? Contemporary tankies justify most genocides done under the USSR.

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      3 years ago

      And they will happily justify handing over people to the Nazis during the 1930ties because they can easily rationalize away some age old stuff. There is really no point in harping on and on about that.

      If you have some contemporary examples I am happy to hear them and I am sure some of those “tankies” will have a lot harder time to rationalize those away.

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        3 years ago

        because they can easily rationalize away some age old stuff.

        That’s what they always do. It is called gaslighting. Felix, dev of lemmy, justified Assad and how he cracked down something that started as a simple protest and eventually resulted in mass murder. They will reply with very long threads why [something about CIA] [something about shit libs] [something about the enemy of my enemy is my friend] [something about anti-ameria and justifying any other imperium that takes position against US] and because of that it was necessary.

        Nothing more then gaslighting that follows all the time the same patterns.

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          3 years ago

          Great, post some more examples of what happened in Syria then! The story is indeed a bit more complex and warrants some debate about!

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            3 years ago

            what ever genocide it is,tankies will always justify it if it is done by a country that they claim to be an ally.

            It is an ideological concept that you can’t disproof with logic. It is an dogma, that justifies itself.

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              3 years ago

              Yes because tankies belong to some sort of hive-mind and will never ever be able to change their mind /s

              (especially when we are not even trying to convince them, but just like to have a happy in-group circle jerk about how bad these “tankies” are).

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                3 years ago

                That’s not what I’m saying here. I’m saying that their mind set is dogmatic. That does not mean that it’s permanent, but if you aim to create a dialogue that gives a chance to question such dogmas, it is useful to understand they exist. If you create a dialogue where the dogma can just justify itself, it will deepen their ideological believes.

                You want to question their dogmas? Understand how they function first.

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                  3 years ago

                  Yeah, I agree to that, but posting some age old stuff a calling them “tankies” doesn’t help a single bit and is probably counter-productive.

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                    3 years ago

                    remembering history is important. learning from history is important. narratives are strong influence of our culture. history effects narratives and many tankies use history for their justification.

                    I play with narratives