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.

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    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.

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      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.