Yeah, tankies are conservatives. The term doesn’t mean right-wing - it describes humanity’s innate tribalist worldview.
They have decided these countries are Their Side, so any criticism is unjustifiable persecution, because Their Side can do nothing wrong. Things are right because they do them. It’s the little people’s job to shuffle cards into argument-shaped sentences bolstering that received conclusion. Objective reality can only make them pick new pretense, and only sometimes. Logical consistency doesn’t even register.
Their stated ideals are ad-hoc justifications. All that has ever mattered is ingroup loyalty. They think that’s all you’re doing, because they think that’s all there is.
Campism is another term I hear to describe them, sounds pretty fitting. They’ve picked The Good Camp before they even defined their arguments so of course they have to invent shit to fit the evidence.
Yeah, tankies are conservatives. The term doesn’t mean right-wing - it describes humanity’s innate tribalist worldview.
They have decided these countries are Their Side, so any criticism is unjustifiable persecution, because Their Side can do nothing wrong. Things are right because they do them. It’s the little people’s job to shuffle cards into argument-shaped sentences bolstering that received conclusion. Objective reality can only make them pick new pretense, and only sometimes. Logical consistency doesn’t even register.
Their stated ideals are ad-hoc justifications. All that has ever mattered is ingroup loyalty. They think that’s all you’re doing, because they think that’s all there is.
Campism is another term I hear to describe them, sounds pretty fitting. They’ve picked The Good Camp before they even defined their arguments so of course they have to invent shit to fit the evidence.