In my admittedly limited experience, 100% of the people I’ve talked to who have made the accusation you’re making have lied about it.
And in my admittedly limited experience, 100% of the lefties accused of saying what you’re accusing them of saying, were explicitly not saying it.
And in my slighy more experience, 100% of the people I’ve seen saying the things that you’re accusing lefties of saying have been right wingers.
So… 🤷
- To cede that some tankies are like this? None
- To cede that this is representative of tankie culture? Quite a few, plus evidence that it’s not an inside joke or satire
- To cede that this is representative of communist culture? Same as the above, but more.
- To cede that this is representative of leftie culture? I’d have a difficult time believing it wouldn’t be buried by counter examples.
Let’s start with, let’s say 5 posts from prominent communist communities that: a) are clearly mainly about this, b) are clearly not a joke, and c) clearly have broad support from within the community.
Those examples will give me a starting place to look around myself.
Fuck it, I’ll bite. I don’t usually indulge this kind of sealion stuff but I’m bored and waiting for my hair to dry before going to sleep.
- Support for compromise (Hexbear)
- NATO is winning, and that is bad
- NATO is losing, and that is good
- “By abandoning neutrality, Ukraine essentially violated the basis for its independence.”
- Literally a post about how redditors can’t believe they are real people who really believe this stuff. Number 5 top all time post in the sub.
All of these posts were gathered from the “top all time” posts in communities about Ukraine in hexbear and lemmygrad.
Those examples will give me a starting place to look around myself.
Yeah, gonna have to go with a ‘no’ for a mealy-mouthed dodge like this.