Trump seems to be consolidating to focus on Iran (and it’s allies) and China. He’s not going to fight Europe. If anything, he’ll try to get them to help by threatening NATO membership or something.

I don’t think Russia has money either from all the sanctions. This all strikes me as extremely unlikely. They can’t even get through Ukraine lol.

But maybe they’re just exaggerating to justify war spending just in case.

Uh what… Why do you think Israel is able to block aid to Gaza, and stop their power, trash, food, water intake, and ability to travel?

It’s because they never left. They’ve always been occupiers who have controlled their territory.

100%. The West Bank is proof. They are being slaughtered and ethnically cleansed from there with no recourse. You need guns to defend yourselves against genociders, WW2 proved that. Hamas, and similar groups, are the only ones willing to carry guns and actually defend their people.

That was a good raid. Good times.

They exist but I only ever see them in ml threads, maybe like two or three, or other instances that .world isn’t federated to but lemm.ee is (like Lemmygrad and hexbear). I haven’t seen one in a .world thread since the defederation and yet it’s still the top comment every time there’s a thread on China or Russia.

It just comes off as an odd goal to me. The problem isn’t that tankies exist. The problem is that the US and the West have been been doing colonization and imperialism to countries for the last 200 years and spent the last 100 saying communism doesn’t work and then proving it by destabilizing their democracies, attacking them, funding coups, sanctioning them, selling their enemies weapons, and cutting them out of the Western order; as well as spying on the, blacklisting them, arresting them, and killing them at home. And at the same time putting up a ton of propaganda. The problem is that people don’t know history, they don’t travel, and they only speak one language so they don’t talk to people in the global south except for the conservatives that run and hide here in the West and say how awful it was when someone took their slaves or corrupt business.

As long as the Global South is poorer and in a siege mentality, which will continue for as long as the US military and it’s dollar is in charge of the world, communism won’t look nice. And that’s because capitalism has pushed the West to ravage the world for its resources and continues to do so. Then they compare themselves to Cuba or Vietnam, instead of countries of equal development, like Ethiopia, Haiti, Guyana, or hell, Puerto Rico, which is a capitalist territory in the US and just spent New Year’s in the dark.

As for why I jumped to some conclusions, I think it’s natural. It’s like complaining about black power people being too eager while black people still face huge racism in this country. Imagine if you went into the comment section of a news article about a black person committing a crime and saying, “hey can someone give me the source? I’m making a document of all the crimes black people in the black panthers have done. But I’m not racist, I just think the black panthers go too far and I want other people to know being anti-racist doesn’t have to be like that.” Meanwhile, they’re setting up shelters, food banks, and book clubs, and the FBI is killing them in the streets. That would be suspicious, right?

Maybe only if you knew about those things. Otherwise, you would think the Black Panthers are the bad guys simultaneously thinking you’re not a racist, while in actuality you are hurting the cause you purported be for. In the US, they try to cover up the bad they do and the good their “enemies” do all the time, so it’s a similar situation. But people don’t know what they don’t know. Hence the difficulty of researching AES countries using western sources and people.

But I hope it goes well, and maybe with further research and discussions you can find a good path through it. Just keep an open mind.

Communists self-critical all the time. I encourage you tk actually go on hexbear and read their struggle sessions. They are constantly arguing about what foreign countries should do and not do, even the communist ones, like China. They critically support it because of its resistance to US imperialism, they don’t automatically think everything they do is good. That is the definition of “critical support”, a thing no one in lemmy.world seems to understand.

I think you actually need to talk to communists instead of libs before you make this document. You need to engage them in real conversation. You’re just going off propaganda news articles and third party hearsay. There aren’t any actual tankies in this thread so you’re not getting any first-hand information.

It sounds like you’re using self-crit as an excuse to recycle and peddle lib propaganda and nonsense. Meanwhile, the US is on the verge of fascism. You’re looking for reasons to make people not be communists rather than finding out why people should be.

Seriously, imagine making an “anti-tankies” document after Trump was elected and we’re on the verge of fascism in the US, UK, Germany, France, and Canada. There are higher concerns and communists like those are always on the front lines fighting fascism.

It doesn’t help that the US and West kept destroying socialist countries. Imperialism means every socialist covert is in siege mentality until the last capitalist, imperialist superpower is gone.

They’re already banning porn in general in red states. It’s already begun.

Seriously every thread it’s the top comment, but there’s never any actual tankies in the thread. I feel like I’m in the McCarthy 1950’s whenever I’m looking through .world threads lol.

How so? I think he said he wanted the war in Ukraine because of the opposite. It’s basically the same anti-war stance as his views on this topic.

Thanks for your contributions on that matter btw. I appreciate you sustaining these other communities, even though I know it’s not easy. I like reading non-news stuff lol.

I basically only use mobile apps, so I don’t even remember what the desktop UI looks like. But if you say so!

Fog of war and all, so I’m guessing no one knows, but here’s my take: This is more recent so it’s probably more true that they haven’t actually been fighting yet. IIRC those rumors before of them fighting has only been coming from South Korea and Ukraine. Ukraine, while I support them, clearly has a biased motivation to seem as outnumbered and out-gunned as possible to express a need to their allied nations to give them more weapons, and even to try to get them to join the war themselves. South Korea’s bias is pretty obvious. Neither offered much physical evidence except I think a flag they found.

The US is also biased, but are a step removed, so I believe their intelligence on this topic more than either of those two until we get something even more recent and clear. Also it’s hilarious to me imagining them being worse than Russian convicts lol.

What’s the point in them making a reddit alternative when they can just spin up their own Lemmy instances? That seems pointless.

I understand that Lebanon has to look out for themselves and recover from the horrific terrorist pager attacks and civilian apartment building bombings of Israel, but this isn’t good for Gaza. Now Israel is free to complete their genocide without opposition =( Everyone needs to participate in BDS. We need to pressure Israel in other ways now.

It’s fascist thinking. We have to kill them before they kill us! It’s how we get genocides.

They’ve been trained, from nearly a century of propaganda, to deny the possibility of any alternative forms of the government or economy. It’s the reason for half of the US’s foreign policy.