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[–] BlackCoffee 51 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (17 children)

"The dismissal of tankies really bothers me"

I am gonna make it easy.

If you are a holocaust denier, Stalin/Mao/Hitler/lenin fetishist or "defend" how they ruled their people then you are purposely keeping your eyes shut.

There is so so much literature to read and material to watch about these people that you actually have to actively dodge it to not know what they have done and some of the regimes that came from them are still doing.

Just because you are right about 1 thing doesn't mean that it validates every single believe that you have.

There are also enough people who are not the above who were against the invasion of Iraq and already foresaw why the US went there.

But this is the thing; It is your choice to believe the above. It literally is a choice, the truth is different. It is literally a choice to close your eyes towards history and the crimes authoritarian rulers and regimes are still commiting towards their citizens.

The western world is not perfect but there is a reason people are fleeing towards western nations and not the other way around.

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