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Cake day: August 16th, 2023

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  • I interact with enough tankies to tell you in advance.

    In the view of tankies, Russia isn’t imperialist due to some weaseling with how they define imperialism in economic terms.

    The US, on the other hand, is as imperialist in tankies’ minds as it is in reality.

    Thus, to to them, Russia is waging an anti-imperialist war with the long-term goal of establishing a “multi-polar” world.

    Thus, the tankie conclusion is that NK is heroically sending in the soldiers to help fight imperialism.

    I see no need to try and explain why this is wrong. That’s left as an exercise for the reader.

















  • Sure thing, chief.

    Neoliberal economics (low corporate taxes, weak regulations, privatization, weak welfare system, government intervention is used to facilitate further market expansion and prop up big businesses).

    Large budgets for the army and the police without much external oversight, while still maintaining some level of restraint on what they can do.

    Making it harder to get a visa and even harder to get a citizenship.

    Hard-line stance against what are considered vices by the society the conservatives in question inhabit.

    A preservation of the monarchy in countries which have them.

    Incentives to give birth.