• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.todayOP
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    7 months ago

    They support the current treatment of Tibet and Uighurs in China, they also support Putin in the war. They think NATO and the UN is a threat to world peace.

    How is that any different from supporting literal nazis? They’re functionally morally equivalent.

    • gerryflap@feddit.nl
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      7 months ago

      Tankies are definitely also authoritarian, and they also oppose anything western and democratic, but that doesn’t make them Nazi’s. Don’t forget that the Soviet Union also murdered a lot of people out of the name of communism. These two ideologies oppose each other in many ways, even if the end result in both cases is horrible.