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How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset?
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They opposed one tribe so they joined another
These kinds of answers are just the silliest. If you don’t know why we think the things we do—which you obviously don’t—then don’t “contribute” to the conversation with the first thing that pops into your head. It’s okay to not know things.
They’re not going to do that, because investigation of socialist positions would require them to confront the cognitive dissonance of their own beliefs. And once you go against mainstream liberal groupthink, you risk being ostracized by people calling you ~~woke~~ a tankie.
This. Treating politics like team sports.
You can see it plainly when the defense comes up as "well your country lied about the one i like"
My dudes, they are both awful and both kill for sport and are horribly racist. That's how they have such power to begin with.
This isnt sports. You can hate them both.
Reductively equating fundamentally different states at a qualitative level isn't some grand, higher-level wisdom, but selective blindness to material reality and a decision to simply not compare because the outcome doesn't matter to you. Claiming, say, Cuba or Virtnam "kills for sport and is horribly racist" and equating it to, say, the US Empire and Israel is pure dishonesty.