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[โ€“] Dempf@lemmy.zip 31 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What you said is all true. And most of the tankies I've come across seem to hold their beliefs mostly due to learning about and needing to confront the hypocrisy that you've outlined.

But in my opinion, they come to some strange conclusions. For example, it seems to me that many hold Russia and especially China up as some kind of shining beacon of hope, and miss that they are just as bad as the US, if not worse, just in different ways.

[โ€“] sukhmel@programming.dev 5 points 7 months ago

I think it's out of the false dichotomy of The West vs China and Russia. While in fact there is no dichotomy, every large political actor will only try to bend everyone else, not benefit humanity.

It's not a capture the flag, it's more of a death match, but many think they are too big to fail, have too much upper hand, or can outsmart others. Too bad the people are the losing side