Slop.

This was published back in 2020 and it is truly one of the most cringe things I've ever read. Some highlights:

But either way, let’s have a look at why Tankies don’t matter, and yet in a way, they really do!

(Did that sound confusing? That’s right, it’s all about the ‘dialectic!’ The endless rub and grind of opposites! REEEEEE!) 😛

Nowadays, however, the term ‘Tankie’ is used for a general ‘woke’ or superficial, virtue-signalling kind of ‘progressive’ politics and rhetoric, where any level of brutality in Pyongyang, Tehran or Peking is taken to be less of a morally substantive consideration than the fact such governments are against the UK, the USA, the EU, Israel, or any other supposedly ‘root of all evil’ kind of country.

Arguing with Tankies is like arguing with Holocaust deniers (in some cases, of course, the term can overlap; depending on how shameless their antisemitism and antizionism is).

The authoritarian left’s fascination with dictatorial ideologies and regimes can be founded on naivete, or it can be founded on self-consciously cynical opportunism.

The one thing it is never founded upon, however, is a healthy synthesis of good faith and moral and logical consistency.

This means that at least 99% of the time, if not always, reasoning with Tankies is utterly futile.

What’s all this we hear about religion being the opium of the people?

Not any more!

Tehran are just misunderstood…

Er, what?!

Ironically, guess who one of the biggest killers of Marxists (as distinguished from Marxist killers!) in 20th century Iran was?

You don’t have to be a Marxist to win the approval of Tankies.

After all, they’re a bit more ‘tolerant’ and ‘inclusive’ towards other kinds of totalitarian regimes than they used to be, before the age of the internet!

At the very end of the article is a youtube embed for Guns N' Roses' song Chinese Democracy. This is the most deeply unserious article ever.