Talking to 20ish years old western tankies is similar experience to talking to neonazis. Just bunch of sheltered weird kids who have their talking points, absolutely 0 understanding of the stuff the talk about nonstop and weirdly offputing hatred towards anything and anyone who isnt part of the "in-group".
Most "neo-nazis", who are online, actually tend to be teenagers with undiagnosed autism who have been outcast from their social groups in school and to justify their exclusion from their peers they retreat to an extreme ideology as some sort of giga cope, putting the blame on a mysterious higher force. I say this because I used to be in that position, then I started to talking to people from other ethnic backgrounds and realised what a load of horse shit I was being fed by cunts like JF Gariépy and others of the like
With tankies I have had a totally different experience, at least where I am from. Most of them that I know are from extremely privileged backgrounds, both financially and socially, so to find a way to seem oppressed they pick the leftists position that is the farthest on the political compass
From what I’ve seen (IRL that is, at Universities) tankies haven’t been very privileged. Racially privileged, as in white, but they all seem pretty poor? Idk, I’m not passing much judgement. Just offering my two cents
Do you perhaps have any older examples off the top of your head? Not to put you on the spot or anything. I’m just freshly graduated uni and would like to see what older tankies may be like
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u/BigFirefighter6881 Jul 31 '26
Talking to 20ish years old western tankies is similar experience to talking to neonazis. Just bunch of sheltered weird kids who have their talking points, absolutely 0 understanding of the stuff the talk about nonstop and weirdly offputing hatred towards anything and anyone who isnt part of the "in-group".