Which is why I proceeded to explain you the history of repression and discrimination of communists in western societies.

Oh wow, thank you so much <3

It’s not an insult, it’s a description of your political position, a shortening of the word “liberal” in the USian sense of the word. I’m not even from the US, you can hardly call me MAGA.

What’s green MAGA? Genuinely curious, I never heard that before. Maybe following the teachings of Gaddafi’s green book?

The western lib obsession with Taiwan is unbelievable. China hasn’t entered a war in 50+ years, it’s literally inconceivable for the western mind that China actually has good trade relations with Taiwan, because you can only understand violence and sanction, as is the case of Cuba by the US.

How’s this post related to Taiwan? Do you have to talk about the island every single time China is mentioned?

That’s by definition of propaganda, though? The word “propaganda” doesn’t imply “false”, it just implies that it’s propagated with a political goal in mind

So, LFI had political hindsight? After seeing what’s happening with NATO in Palestine and in Iran, how on Earth do you think joining NATO was a good idea? Good job Finland and Sweden becoming Trump’s lapdogs and destroying your welfare state to buy more F-16s.

So you DO understand why I explained you my reasoning for criticising the word “tankie” used as a left-punching slur, and you’re just playing dumb instead of engaging with anything I said.

Why did you respond that to my comment then

Well, you’re making bad faith replies to words used to describe people who are consistently repressed under capitalism, so yes I’m responding to you

Now, if there were precedents of mass imprisonment, law abuse, discrimination, and outright murder of communists, my argument would hold. Oh, wait, the red scare happened, and McCarthyism, and mass executions of communists all over fascist Europe, and…

Or are you seriously pretending that this didn’t happen? You’re talking to a Spaniard, communists were systematically executed under the American-backed Franco regime. As for France, Operation Gladio was literally a plot of assassinations of communists

How on earth is a French politician from LFI a tankie, you’re absolutely ridiculous

The post brings it up in the context of a particular candidate’s opinions on China’s mode of government and civil liberties

A western lib (or bombie)'s propagandized opinion on China’s civil liberties, degree of democracy or mode of government are worthless if this person is not informed. I only focused the conversation on the public transit part because that’s what’s relevant to this community, but if you want to discuss how democratic China is in comparison to Europe, we can discuss the Podemos party in my homeland being destroyed by a state apparatus + private media manufactured plot of lawfare, we could discuss Alexis Tsipras not being allowed to enact the Democratic will of Greek people under threat of the Troika, we could discuss Berlin’s popular referenda of rent control being struck down by the highest court in Germany, or we could discuss Macron using emergency constitutional powers to raise the retirement age in France against the Democratic will of the people.

Are you claiming tankie is a slur?? Seems real insensitive towards actually marginalized people

Yes, I claim it’s a left-punching slur (no other political position is referred to by weaponry). We don’t call anarchists “bombies” despite the history of terrorism, we don’t call libs “dronies” for drone striking the middle east… Even Nazis have the luxury of being referred to by a shortening of their profesded ideology (national socialism). And sure, communists are famously never marginalized, Thomas Sankara wasn’t murdered, neither was Huey P. Newton, nor Patrice Lumumba, nor Che Guevara, nor Rosa Luxembourg, nor Karl Liebknecht, nor many other communists. Communists are never slandered, never kicked off their jobs for being communist, and are always given air time to express their opinion and never murdered /s.

When you talk about urban mobility in Paris, do you make it a point to mention the pinned Paris-controlled currency in 10+ African countries thst legitimizes and continues neocolonialism by France? Do you discuss the extreme exclusion and segregation of blacks and Arabs in Paris, leading to much higher poverty and criminality rates? No, because this is a community about urban transit and modes of transportation, in which you can definitely support the Dutch and the Chinese model.

Also, if you still believe in the “Uyghur genocide” CIA propaganda a full 7 years after the reeducation camps have been closed (per Washington Post), you run into the risk of looking like someone who doesn’t actually give one single fuck about Uyghurs, their culture or their well being and only uses them as a political weapon to hate on a country that their government tells them to hate. I beg you, bring me one independent journalistic report with photographic or video evidence of widespread repression of Uyghurs post-2021, ONE. I’ve asked for this a million times to libs like you who concern-troll using the lives of the Uyghurs without actually knowing one single thing about them, nobody has provided anything so far.

the reeducation camp program appears to have ended in 2019

“Normie” is related to “normal”, “tankie” is related to “tanks”. The word “lib”, which I use, is a shortening of “liberal”. I could make up a slur to refer to liberals such as “dronies” referring to drone strikes by the Obama administration they support, or “bombies” for supporting Europe when it bombed Iraq and Libya and Yugoslavia. I hope it’s self-explanatory that the word “tankie” is explicitly a lot more violent.

You can absolutely be pro-public transit without also endorsing or excusing all the other shit

Yes, that’s what people usually do when they praise Dutch bike cities for example. Bringing Netherlands as an example doesn’t mean you condone Netherlands being the heir state to a genocidal empire. Bringing up China in the context of public transit should be regarded well.

Notice how, to OP, “pro-car” and “normie centrist” aren’t deserving of slurs, but being to the left of socdems gets you called “tankie” and libs use every lawfare case to smear leftist candidates.

“Voted against helping Ukraine” is likely translated to “voted against raising military budgets in France” or “voted against sending weapons”, which, seeing France’s reaction in the Iran war, was the correct choice.

Also, in an anti-car community, being pro-China should be the default position. China has the most extensive high speed railway network in the world, heavily invests in extremely affordable public transit, and promotes alternative means of transport such as bikesharing and electric micromobility.

Nazis = party to the left of socdems, gotcha

“American capital is not capable of such evil, it must be the machinations of the evil easterns”

What they did do was notify Sri Lanka

We have literally no source for this other than a western analyst speculating about it, what are you talking about?

And why are you bringing up Venezuela?

Because a country not showing any kind of problem carrying out repeated war crimes will continue to carry them out?

I don’t know all risks they may or may not face while surfacing outside of Sri Lankan waters

Yet you’re quick to speculate about airstrike capabilities of Iranian air forces as an excuse for US submarines leaving Iranian navy personnel to die in the water, using a western analyst’s speculations in a clearly US-biased article.

From the linked article:

These rules apply to naval warfare and require belligerents, so far as military circumstances permit, to assist survivors at sea.

In practice, however, submarines face particular challenges in fulfilling this obligation. Surfacing to rescue survivors may expose them to significant risk. You also can’t usually fit a large number of survivors on a submarine.

If a submarine cannot safely surface to rescue survivors, it may instead facilitate rescue by reporting their location to other vessels or authorities.

“Surfacing […] may expose them to significant risk”. Tell me which risk the submarine was facing in Sri fucking Lanka after sinking an Iranian boat.

Wheater or not the sub was in danger in that region is ultimately speculation. It’s possible the ship sent mayday back to Iran, who could have sent aircrafts. Regardless of probability, it is a possibility

Tell me which strike aircraft model Iran possesses that can travel the thousands of kilometers from Iran to Sri Lanka and then back without refueling on the way (Iran, unlike the US, doesn’t have military bases in half the planet). This is bullshit speculation, and the “possibility of air strikes from half an ocean away” argument would render this law of rescue entirely useless forever. Tell me, which risk of retaliation was the US facing when striking and murdering fishermen off the coast of Venezuela and leaving them to die?

The article notes that Sri Lankan rescue ships were quick to arrive at the scene. Possibly due to the US sending a message

Again entirely speculation. Let’s see the country of origin of the author. Oh, it’s an Aussie defense analyst, I’m sure this is totally unbiased and not a propaganda piece to defend western attacks to Iranians!