• Not_mikey@slrpnk.net
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    arrow-down
    5
    ·
    4 months ago

    I’ll give you stein but just because west shared a stage with a couple tankies doesn’t make him a Russian asset. Yeah he wants an end to the war but that seems motivated by a legitimate fervent anti-imperialist isolationism rather than a sympathy for Putin.

    • Eldritch@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      4 months ago

      Neither Putin or Flynn are tankies. Not even remotely. Putin is realistically fascist. And Flynn is a fascist cheerleader. If my choice was between supporting them or tankies. I would support tankies every single day. And I really don’t like tankies or other similar authoritarian types. But they are slightly better than fascists like Putin

      • Not_mikey@slrpnk.net
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        3
        ·
        4 months ago

        I was talking about Cornell west, the article the other commenter linked was saying he was turning hard left because he spoke at a conference that had the PSL (ml tanky party) candidate and some China simp speaking as well, even though he didn’t endorse them or even talk about them.