Lol you're not a socialist, you're a liberal.

You don't know shit about me, so you aren't in a position to decide what I am.

This post is verified shit, yes.

Laughing at all the tankies getting butthurt in the comments

Oh, because we all know that the entire event was caught on video and it was so easy to smuggle film out of china at the time.

(Context: the video of tank man was hidden in a toilet while the authorities searched the man's apartment after he was spotted filming from his window).

But denying massacres of civilians is so in character for someone from .ml, so nobody is surprised, really...

Added benefit but the main reason is oil.

I would celebrate Trump death but not the 150 children. Gotta learn to compartimentalize and all that, in a complex world.

Dedicated his life to spiritual fulfilment.

Killed by a country that rapes little girls and a country that murders little girls.

These morons dont understand martyrdom because their lives are spiritual vacuums.

you shouldn't compartmentalize that operation Epstein has slaughtered 150 schoolgirls. you should be furious.

This world is full of evil, we have to be willing to take in what little good we can get for what it is until people start doing really better. If Operation Epstein kills 150 schoolgirls and Trump, I of course won't be celebrating that 150 schoolgirls are dead, but also I'm not going to lie or omit that Trump dying is the only good thing coming out of that. What, you want me to lament that Trump is dead?

They’re both completely evil cowards.

Perhaps more than one person or side can be bad at the same time.

Lemmy reaction : 16/14

So long as they don't democratically elect a socialist. Otherwise they're getting a Western-backed far-right dictator forced on them instead to "prove socialism doesn't work."

lol wow, we’re pretending this dude was a good guy now?

All of a sudden this bothers you? lol your terrorist nation has been doing this non stop forever. You guys bomb my country, treat my people with racism, you leave us the mess and move on, and pretend it never happened. Then you turn around and criticize other nations.
It’s a big facepalm seeing so many young leftists acting like this is new

you're making a lot of assumptions about me, I've been protesting almost every week for years, local antiwar org I work with has been organizing weekly protests since 2003.

this bs aggression isn't new, but I refuse to desensatise myself.

Well the Orange Jackass sure as hell doesn't have the well-being of Iranians in mind.

Like a brainwashed American would know anything about him. other than Zionist / Pahlavi propaganda about how evil he was.

He was a spiritual figure to millions. A poet and a scholar.

I should add he was the only obstacle, through his Fatwa, to Iran pursuing a nuclear weapon. Thats now history thanks to Netanyahu and his paedophile puppet President

Edit: fucking morons

You have a child's understanding of the world

Empire's been attacking these people for at least a century.

Not that I like this guy he deserves to rot in the same cesspit as Trump and Netanyahu (and more). But this post looks like rage bait.

I mean this regime is a continuation of a regime change that was also installed by US and UK about 40 years ago (correction 80 years ago and also perhaps better to emphasise not ideological continuation but a new regime due to instability formed in the country). And more recently in any place where US has been involved in a regime change (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Egypt and Syria among others), the country is left to the mercy of religious cults or warlords after a great proportion of civilian infrastructure is bombed out of existence.

So yeah, I agree.

Imagine your neighbor is an abuser who beats his wife and children, and you want to help them. so you kick their door, beat the husband, beat the wife, kill one of the kids, and set their house on fire.

I've seen enough of your comment history, you go around spreading liberal talking points and pro empire/war progranda. You're not a socialist, you may have some socialist ideals you're developing, and I hope you read more, but your current arguments do more harm than good for the working class.

it IS ragebait

You're probably being called a tankie because you're from lemmy.ml .

As an American. Fuck my current administration. I can still say that for now. Let’s see how long it lasts.

Or you could say all things turn to shit over time...

Not even a little bit, I'm just not afraid to disagree with tankies who are shilling for dictators just because they happen to be anti-west dictators. Apparently to the average tankie, that makes me a "liberal fascist," whatever that is, or a zionist or an imperialist apologist or a genocide supporter or all those other things that I'm not but tankies like accusing everyone who isn't a tankie of being.

I do plenty of calling out western dictators too. I can be anti-maga and anti-tankie. That's something tankies can't seem to wrap their heads around.

Oh look, an ML user standing up for a dictatorship.

Im an indigenous Latino not born anywhere near America but ok.

What I do know is a bunch of Iranian people who has to flee the murders, rapes and executions of the Islamic Revolution .

Fuck religion and spirituality, and fuck this old fuck who got blown up. May he rot in the abyss

You overuse the word tankie. Being only anti maga doesn't make you a socialist, it makes you a liberal.

You should really stop acting like a country is some monolithic thing where everyone thinks and behaves the same. That's not how it works anywhere. C'mon big dog, a little nuance isn't going to hurt you.

*when you live your whole life under the effect of unilateral sanctions, designed specifically to punish civilians living their life in order to create political change (aka terrorism)

"Also, I'm going to live here for awhile to keep you all free. I hope that doesn't cause any tension."

Hey, spoiler alert!

how about one of the original creators of wikipedia no longer using his own software and encouraging everyone to also not use it? he claims that the cia have been using it as a tool of information warfare since 2007

I will admit that for shallow questions like 'did this thing happen in this year'? wikipedia can sometimes be more useful than a plain search engine, also sometimes from wikipedia you can find links to real sources which can also be useful.

Ben, Krasnov, Xi, Vlad and the Ayatollah are peas in the same damn pod. Sick bastards, all of them!

plus you get to sell all their stuff and pocket all the cash

I use the word tankie a lot because there are a lot of tankies on the internet. I suppose a tankie would think that's overusing it though. Tankies overuse words like "capitalist shitlib," "zionist," "fascist," "western imperialist," and "genocide apologist." Those things are all deserving of critique, but I'm none of those things. And if tankies don't stop throwing them around like meaningless insults, then they're gonna lose their meanings and get treated like meaningless insults.

I've already had people tell me to stop hyperbolizing while talking about actual fascists, because people are so worn down by tankies calling everyone and their mother a fascist just for being closer to the center than a bolshevik.

I never said "I'm socialist because I'm anti-maga." I'm socialist, and I'm anti-maga.

So if you've watched the full 'tankman' footage you would know that he wasn't killed by a tank or by anything else in that video. You can believe decades and decades of breathless propaganda coming directly out of the NED and the other usual characters, or you can believe your own lying eyes.

It's sufficient to assume that if this one important image was essentially a lie, then many other aspects of the story are also manufactured. For example did you know that many dozens of police officers (who were unarmed) were burnt to death by the student protestors? did you know that the leaders of the student protests were coordinating with and were paid by western intelligence agencies? Did you know that literally nancy pelosi was on the ground during those protests?

do you know anything other than what imperialist propaganda has directed you to 'know'?

I'd rather be a tankie than a normie

On the contrary, to quote Wikipedia's article on him:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Sanger

Since Sanger's departure from Wikipedia, he has been critical of the project, describing it in 2007 as being "broken beyond repair".[8] He has argued that, despite its merits, Wikipedia lacks credibility and accuracy due to a lack of respect for expertise. Since 2020, he has also accused Wikipedia of having a left-wing and liberal ideological bias in its articles.[9][10] Sanger's effort to change Wikipedia was seen by some as part of a right-wing attack on Wikipedia.[11][12]

Which lines up with external articles written by him that I'm reading, including his take on Grokipedia: https://larrysanger.org/2025/10/grokipedia-a-first-look/

Of course Wikipedia is biased (probably western/liberal biased), astroturfed, and such. I was taught that in middle school. But calling it something like a CIA misinformation op falls into "perfect is the enemy of good" at best, and sounds more like the efforts of bad actors trying to tear down information sources they can't control.

I really don't like that.

For all its flaws, Wikipedia is one of the last "free" information oases on Earth. It's critical to humanity's survival. It should improve, yes, but we don't need any more conspiracies undermining it.

So because tank man wasn't killed on camera, you're claiming the entire massacre was a lie?

Does anyone even claim that he was killed? That was never the point of that video. The point was that an unnamed, ordinary, everyday person can be a hero during difficult times, even on his way back from the grocery store. He didn't go out that day planning to be a hero, but the circumstances aligned and he chose courage over complacency.

For example did you know that many dozens of police officers (who were unarmed) were burnt to death by the student protestors?

Is that on video? Cause it sounds like you won't believe the protesters were murdered unless it's on video. So do you have video evidence corroborating this claim that it was actually the protesters who were killing cops?

I never thought I would hear a tankie with a pro-police argument. I guess "ACAB" comes with a footnote that says "except for the PLA"? How fast they turn around and lick boots when the dictators are anti-west...

did you know that the leaders of the student protests were coordinating with and were paid by western intelligence agencies?

You're gonna need some evidence to back that up. Maga claims the anti-ICE protestors are paid by foreign influence, but the truth is people simply don't like being oppressed by violent dictators.

Did you know that literally nancy pelosi was on the ground during those protests?

I don't give a shit what nancy pelosi was doing. She's a political opportunist and saw a moment to extort for clout. It's not that deep.

do you know anything other than what imperialist propaganda has directed you to 'know'?

Do you "know" anything other than imperialist propaganda has directed you to "know"? Tankies are a cult like maga, you reject reality as "propaganda" because it doesn't align with your worldview, which is largely composed of actual propaganda.

I'd rather be a tankie than a normie

I'm definitely no normie, but thank fuck there are more than two options (sorry not sorry that conflicts with your campist worldview, but life isn't sportsball team).

A revolution caused by western powers actively destabilizing Iran mind you. Not dick riding the ayatolah but they are a direct result of foreign meddling.

You have like 1/20 in rhetoric. What a lame thing to say lol.

The ideal scenario, now that the greybeard kicked the bucket, is for Iran to fire a ballistic missile straight at Netanyahu's arse, Krasnov suffering a heart attack, and Vlad just watching his entire country crumble to bits as his economy dies, and his military collapses from lack of manpower.

Not sure about Xi. Maybe a fishing boat accident.

Dedicated his life to spiritual fulfilment.

LOL, good one :D

16/14???

You forgot little don

That's Krasnov.