The time draws ever closer to a sitting politician using the term
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/16/opinion/james-bond-china.html
They're perfectly willing to destroy the biosphere for the sake of their yellow peril-ism and yet somehow we're the "extremists"
The only conclusion that I can draw from this is that any position less than demanding full-out war against China is a leftist one.
"fears anything that seems like warmongering"
wow i wonder why - its not like we just got out of a pointless 20 year long pointless catastrophe in the middle east, you fucking idiot
Hey even just from a pragmatic standpoint, maybe it's not a great idea to provoke a pointless war against a massive country that the US has no hope of defeating on their own soil unless they start nuking.
Stupid leftists don't want me to poke the bear.
:sicko-hexbear: :maduro-katana-1: :frothingfash:
:trump-anguish: Sleepy Joe Biden folks! What a mess he made with our military. Total mess. They say he’s a “tankie” but I don’t know about that. He doesn’t like tanks like Trump does. We love our military! They’re going to have some of the finest tanks in the world, they’ll have so many of them they’ll be calling me Tankie Trump! bing bang bong fire in the hole sir! BOOOOOM
Fuck did I just lathe that Trump bit into existence? :scared:
an irrelevant but fascinating fringe
Calling it now no matter how big the "tankie" left gets we'll always be described as "irrelevant".
NYT calling people irrelevant is rich considering no one I know my age reads the newspaper, much less pays for a subscription lol
It already is. I got called a Tankie by a coworker for espousing social Democratic views. This guy is all over the map politically though, just a fucking mess. Has said many contradictory things. So it’s whatever.
I see it being used to talk about liberal talking points.
Are you all ready for the nightmare of when "tankie" will replace "bernie bro"?
:desolate:
https://archive.is/HDBAn
Summary of the shitty little article: No James Bond villain has every been a member of the CCP because movie franchises need to penetrate the Chinese market. In the future, James Bond movies and other franchises should use the CCP as an antagonist in their stories because Americans need to understand their government's "rival" better.
Oh and the author implies that a military containment approach to china is more "realistic" than one which calls for cooperation between the two countries for the sake of slowing down climate change.
Question: how does one consume american media without becoming a Maoist-Third Worldlist?
james bond sneaks into China to start the opium wars again
also james bond is worse than american media somehow, it's Br*tish media
We live in the dumbest timeline, so I expect the brinksmanship with China to persist till we all cook to death.
No James Bond villain has every been a member of the CCP
Rocket Fall Down, Mr. Bond
Irrelevant in the west maybe, but I'm sure most Chinese people qualify as "tankie".
Hey, all that seems correct but they didn't mention "tankies" have usually the correct takes
I am just in pain over the term tankie gaining any mainstream usage. Seriously, leave this word to leftist spaces, I'm begging you.
At this point, I'm half convinced Kamala Harris is going to use it first.
"<some vague criticism> that Kamala Harris put into place!"
Kamala: "Ok, tankie"
no let them dilute it, the spectre of communism must loom :specter:
As funny as this is, it might also be the liberal media circling their wagons, finally recognizing they're much closer to Bernie Sanders social democrats than they are to leftists. It's becoming harder and harder for them to refuse to even acknowledge leftists.
Or that's what I would think if it weren't fucking Ross Douthat lmao, who is an utter cretin
Christ, how long until AOC calls MTG one?
We just got out of an election in which Trump the sitting Republican President was called a Communist. Democrats are just reinventing the John Birch Society for Liberals.
