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Usually complaining about "tankies" is just another way to hate Socialism, the Red Scare never ended and being aware of it doesn't make you immune to its effects in any capacity.
Even if you've got a legit beef with 1950s Stalinists, the idea that they've teleported through time to argue with you in English on a 4th rate social media forum is so fucking self-aggrandizing.
Would that Michael Parenti, David Grabber, and Richard Wolfe had been as ravenously consumed by Americans as Milton Friedman, David Brooks, and Anne Coulter.
Not disagreeing with the wider point about the Red Scare, but here specifically I've seen more issues with tankies supporting authoritarian regimes - up to and including saying that North Korea should "reclaim" South Korea and the like - than I have the rest of the political spectrum entirely, except for maybe centrist both-siders. There's the occasional MAGA chud trying to spew nonsense, but they seem to be pretty rare.
There are certain tankie instances that other servers have defederated for a reason.
Of course Korea has to be reunited. The south has been under US control since the end of WWII, taking control after the Japanese
Yep, hopefully Korea can be liberated from the US.
I don't know if something can be done soon with all the shit happening in Republic of Korea
I remain hopeful.