• gidostro@lemmy.cafe
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    16 hours ago

    Yes a lot of them do seem to be pushing an agenda, and they feel very trained on how to escape answering… anything. If they feel they are losing, they resort to insulting, and trying to make you feel foolish. Anyone with half a brain can see this coming a mile away, but the tankie carries on, patting themselves on the back.

    I just assume there is no way to convince them of anything, because to even try is an absolute insult. Their opinion is the only correct opinion. Like, China is great, and everything bad is western propaganda. But, ask a gay tankie how they feel about China not having same sex marriage and their arguments start to fall apart.

    If you’re even going to try to argue with one, just find out how to make them feel undesired in China and Russia, and then they fumble.

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      15 hours ago

      If you just read this pile of hundred year old books, you’d understand. Of course I’ve read them. I just can’t tell you about them. They only make sense as one complete unit. It’s impossible to understand any of it until you’ve read the last word on the last page. That’s why I can’t use all the reading I’ve done to make a point other than “lol you haven’t read my books”.

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        15 hours ago

        Oh, they will copy and paste all 50,000 pages of you talk to them long enough. ;)

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          12 hours ago

          Complaining that they both can’t explain an argument and that they’ll send you 50,000 pages about it is hilarious.

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            12 hours ago

            The trick is that they haven’t read it either, tankies just copy/paste stuff with titles that sound nice

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              11 hours ago

              Only way to prove they don’t know something is by knowing it yourself. Do you have any examples of communist readings with names that “sound nice,” because I don’t know of many.