I’d honestly feel better to hear someone calling us dog eating chingchong than this tankie shit. At least they’re open about being racist and there’s some truth to it.

    • goat@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Tankies believe South Korea is a US puppet and that south korea abandoned asian culture

      • PhilipTheBucket@quokk.auEnglish
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        7 hours ago

        Not only that, I’ve seen a few different times them claiming that “occupied Korea” is a warning about what might happen to countries that trust the Western system and align with it too much. Meanwhile, life for people in North Korea isn’t all that bad, that’s just propaganda.

        This is why it’s hard to get a foothold talking with a lot of with them. They literally have effectively no connection to reality. You just can’t make an internet argument with someone who has no obligation to anything real.

        • goat@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
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          7 hours ago

          all extremists function like that unfortunately, you just can’t use facts against them since they don’t believe in them.

          tho in the case of tankies, I’m not entirely sure if they actually believe in the NK conspiracy nonsense, but instead it’s more of a sunk-cost fallacy for them.

          • PhilipTheBucket@quokk.auEnglish
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            7 hours ago

            Yeah. The whole model is not a factual conversation. The whole model is a “fight.” If you say something factual that makes sense, that’s a huge problem, and they have to double down on fighting back twice as hard. To say “Oh that’s actually a really good point and the evidence backs it up, let me adjust my world view accordingly” would be a cowardly failure.