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Supporting AES does not mean blindly upholding every action taken by every leader of every AES country. The "tankies" that do so are made of straw in the minds of liberals. Rather, it is usually those that denounce "tankies" that make a dogmatic error of reducing AES countries purely to their leaders, and not the hundreds of millions of Marxists and Communists that work and run the AES countries.
Even the CPC's official stance on Stalin and Mao is "70% good, 30% bad" each.
I must be god because my mind can manifest comments on the Internet.
Show some.
I could put in the effort but I won't because I'm lazy and it'll be a fruitless exercise because it won't matter. Whatever I provide won't be from a "real" tankie and won't represent the sentiments of tankies. There is a fundamental disagreement between the definition of the word. No amount of bickering is going to change that.
Sure, but then why say anything? If you aren't going to post an example, then it's just your word, and for now, a strawman.