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This isn’t about some online community as much as it is a comment on tankies.
Obsessions with "TAnKies" is very much a reddit / lemmy thing, or at least internet slang.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=tankie&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3>
Before 2010 it was mostly used to mean "actual tank fighters".
Nope, that’s been used for decades you are just seeing the limitations of google’s tools as it happened in places they do not index
I mean there's something very hypocritical in westerners, living in the countries who manufacture, sell, sometime give actual tanks all over the world, calling people "tankies" lmao
We get it, the ussr sent tanks in the 80ies. Your country sent tanks half a dozen time since then, idiot. There are tanks doing genocide right now in gaza.
No, there isn’t. Anyone claiming to support the liberation of the working classes while praising authoritarian systems that are cracking down on those populations looking for freedom are hypocrites.
It’s weird you would make this about geographic location. Are you doing that because you don’t have a valid critique?
The thing is in your westoid brain, "praising authoritarian systems" just means "not wanting to bomb iran".
How's lockheed martin dick taste like? Enjoying it?
So you are only capable of ad hominem discussions? That really speaks to your intellectual skills.
You know you can just be opposed to authoritarianism. Most decent folk are.
Prove it
Used by great people like tony blair and bobo the clown lmao
You need to provide a source if you are quoting one.
It's the same article you fucking idiot
What article? It’s not the article being discussed and your google link sucks for the reasons already explained.
Yes, that's exactly what they're talking about and you're being extremely weird in making it a priority of discussion on something at best tangentially related.
It's just a straw man writ large because you're miffed at another online argument you had somewhere else.
You are using straw man incorrectly. Don't even try to go down the path of rhetorical flaws if you fuck that one up.
You've literally defined the argument of an opposing group to look stupid so you can dunk on them. You're arguing with a straw man. This isn't even a critique of your rhetorical basis though, it's just normal Internet lameness.
You cannot present a strawman argument when the side you are arguing against isn't present. Thus I was not making a straw man. That's just insulting tankies
Don't bring these up unless you understand them and in this case you do not.
Lol, what? Do you seriously think you cannot create a straw man argument in anything but direct debate? Sure Mr. Smartman.
Hint, logical fallacies are about the logic, not the debate.
I think you need to be actually arguing with someone to make an argument against them, yes. You cannot make an argument when you aren't doing so. You need to be debating to make logical fallacies. No one was doing that hence no one made a strawman argument.
Do you need this further explained? No argument was made. The side you are claiming I am making a strawman argument against is not present. There is no debate.
You used it wrong. Learn from this and move on. Don't misuse them in the future.
Lol, sure man. Definitely no one ever makes an argument in an editorial. It's not possible as their opponent is not present, may not even read it, and frequently will not be allowed to publish a rebuttal to the same audience.
Arguments are about the audience, not the opponent. Making a straw man when your opponent is not present is the most common form of the fallacy. When they're there they might just say that's not what they're argument is.
This wasn't an editorial. It was a snarky comment that you inappropriately are trying to make into an argument because you completely misread the situation
We are referring to the staunch defenders of the oppressive system which this thread is about, defenders who are very proactive on lemmy. The fact that you cannot see the relevance is on you.
Just because you feel like the straw men deserve it doesn't change that you're arguing with hypotheticals versions you've created instead of actual people.