Cool. Can you answer my question then? What opponents?
And more importantly, if you can't honestly type an answer to this without asking google, why do you think you have enough knowledge on this topic in general? Maybe you could look more into that instead?
Exactly what I was referring to... A bunch of the same old tired talking points that you've never actually bothered to look into.
"The US has basically lied since its founding, but they would NEVER lie to ME about Stalin or the USSR. And I know this because I saw a whole tiktok video once and a meme that said "commie bad"
You have seen people who are against US imperialism having a wide set of opinions on the conflict. But no communists support Putin. He's a bigoted reactionary.
You only think that because you've never engaged with them and because you're not used to having nuance in conversations
You're thinking of literal fascist anti-communist propaganda and using a very basic knowledge of anything leftist/communist-related to fill-in the rest
Do these people exist or are they just strawmen? I've not really ever encountered so-called "tankies".
They're strawmen. If you look at this user's profile, you see that they're just a troll, waiting to get banned for going on ML instances and basically begging to be banned so that we can all see "how evil the evil commies truly are".
Every left leaning person I've actually met are against authoritarianism.
And so are "tankies". It's just that people are unwilling to have nuanced and complex conversations. And instead of really engaging with different ideologies, a lot of people just result to name calling
Cool. Can you answer my question then? What opponents?
And more importantly, if you can't honestly type an answer to this without asking google, why do you think you have enough knowledge on this topic in general? Maybe you could look more into that instead?