• goat@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    Of most extremists, Tankies are actually quite active in their reading material… Unfortunately, they don’t read to learn opposing views or even what historically occurred, but instead to bolster themselves in an attempt to appear smarter-than-thou, ‘Look at how many books I’ve read!’ – As if that means anything.

    • nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      21·
      9 months ago

      If it’s anything like the alt right Russian propagandists the reading material only includes easily disproven badly written propaganda and ignoring any piece of history that makes their country of choice look bad and twist anything negative to obscene levels. I don’t believe these people are history buffs nevermind people that fact check their “facts”. The only one up they have on people is that they have an argument ready for the most common attack vectors against their fascism.

      • goat@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
        31·
        9 months ago

        Pretty much. It’s interesting how every flavour of extremist is the same

        • nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          9 months ago

          I’ve argued with my fair share of tankies on reddit and you can never win even if you provide all the facts and sources. They will ignore them or say they don’t matter etc… etc…