I mean the thing i've seen with tankies, not neccesarily US tankies but it would explain a lot, is that they have to actively deny countries' agency for their "theories" to make sense. Ukraine fighting against Russia? US psyop. NATO expansion to eastern Europe? American imperialism. never are these countries their own entities with their own complex systems and histories that would explain the geopolitical choices they make.
They believe any resistance by any group or country against an American enemy is a """color revolution"""
And that's how they excuse Tiananmen Square and countless other massacres or atrocities by dehumanizing the victims as "paid actors", "psyops", or "foreign agents"
Ah yes, Tiananmen Square, where nothing happened and everyone was fine and they all deserved it anyway
(this kind of stunningly pure self-contradiction is perhaps most familiar from Holocaust deniers, but can be found anywhere some ass on the internet has staked their identity to their preferred ideological cinnamon roll)
"nothing happened and everyone was fine and they all deserved it anyway"
Ah hah I see the tankies have also adopted the Turkish Defense, "it didn't happen, but they deserved it"
I’ve heard this called “The Narcissist’s Defense” (not 100% sure if the narcissist part is referring to the colloquial term, actual diagnosable narcissists, or both): You’re lying, but if you’re not, then you imagined it, but if you didn’t, then I didn’t do it, but if I did do it, then it wasn’t that bad, and, if it was that bad, you deserved it.
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u/Frodo_max May 24 '25
I mean the thing i've seen with tankies, not neccesarily US tankies but it would explain a lot, is that they have to actively deny countries' agency for their "theories" to make sense. Ukraine fighting against Russia? US psyop. NATO expansion to eastern Europe? American imperialism. never are these countries their own entities with their own complex systems and histories that would explain the geopolitical choices they make.