2026-11-13 13:19 UTC
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@DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 2026-11-13 13:57
And yet every “anti USA and anti Tankie” person seems to believe exactly what the US State Department has to say about all of the US’s geopolitical adversaries, so it’s really just a meaningless label for a US bootlicker who’s disingenuous or deeply confused.
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@Tomorrow_Farewell@lemmy.ml 2026-11-13 14:08
Please explain how you can be both against the people who are against colonialism, but also against the entities engaging in colonialism
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@bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 2026-11-13 15:02
I have yet to meet one but even if it was possible, why would any group holding anti-US views go out of their way to also punch other anti-US groups? Youre just another fed at that point.
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@dessalines@lemmy.ml 2026-11-13 16:36
Anti-communism in the west has been a cradle-to-grave indoctrination program for nearly 100 years now, affecting everything schools, media, local and national politics, communications mediums, even religious institutions. Its extremely naive (or disingenous) to pretend to take a centrist stance, yet agree with everything the US empire says about its enemies. List of US atrocities
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@RiverRock@lemmy.ml 2026-11-13 20:22
In the abstract, you can hold any two incompatible positions you want. In practice, you cannot.
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@BanMeFromPosting@lemmy.ml 2026-11-14 04:05
“Look buddy, I said USA bad, so that means its okay for me to continue uncritically shitting out state department propaganda”
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@LemmeAtEm@lemmy.ml 2026-11-14 07:28
This is a classic false equivalence fallacy. This is not false equivalence at all, not even a little bit. Either you are completely misunderstanding the text in the image or you don’t actually know what a false equivalence is. Or both (it’s probably both). You can be both anti - tankie and anti - USA. No shit, no one is saying otherwise. The OP image is not claiming that someone can’t be “both anti-tankie and anti-USA.” Nowhere is that implied, and it clearly is possible to be foolish enough to be both those things. That does not change the fact that when you hold “anti-tankie” positions, those positions are aligned with the US even if you consider yourself anti-USA. Take the issue of support for China: sure, you can be “anti-tankie” and thus erroneously believe that the CPC is an evil dictatorship while also hating the fascist US, but despising China is still aligning with the US on that position. Or for another example, take the issue of support for Ukraine: sure you can be “anti-tankie” by throwing your support behind the neo-Nazi state of Ukraine while simultaneously being “anti-USA,” but your support of Ukraine is still taking a position in alignment with the US. And that is what the OP image is referring to. There is zero false equivalence there, regardless of your stance on “tankies.” The other people responding to your comment are focusing on pointing out the ignorance of being “anti-tankie” while thinking you oppose the US, and they are right for doing so. But they are missing (or just glossing over) the fact that it’s your comment that is not logically sound, as it is based on a faulty premise. A little ironic that your claim of a fallacy is itself so obviously fallacious.