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Tankies gonna tank
Be American
Largest and most advanced empire the world has ever seen, with bases spread all across the globe
A trillion a year spent exclusively on "national security"
Never less than three different wars going on at any given time
Crisis of PTSD, drug abuse, and homelessness from all the veterans coming back home and washing out every year
Next election may decide whether we invade our southern neighbor, just for shits and giggles
Read a guy who posts cringe shit online
"Ugh, I hate all these tankies".
Every cogent political point must be phrased like a greentext I agree.
When in Rome...
"Ugh, I hate all these capitalists"
None of that is exclusive to the USA.
Which other country has a military budget or base distribution comparable to the US?
Great Brittan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_military_bases_of_the_United_Kingdom
Seriously: educate yourself:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_overseas_military_bases
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_overseas_military_bases
Fascinating
The first country on your exceptions list is America's biggest military ally
And they did it first. Just cause the United states does it better doesnt mean Britain doesnt do it.
I'm curious, why the downvotes?
Because Tankies are annoying, dishonest, and generally unwelcome.
What are tankies?
You're on ML and you don't know what a tankie is?
Okay, so I recommend you get a different instance (.world if you don't have an opinion) because you're in an unhealthy and culty echo chamber.
Tankies are people who pretend to be leftists while supporting authoritarian regimes. They care most about what's worst for the United States, and will advocate for it regardless of how many people get hurt. They argue against voting and lionize Russia, China, etc. Weird, bad, and creepy folk.
Argh, the fifth move?
But this guy points out the faults with US' geopolitics?
Complaining about the United States geopolitics is not why the guy got downvoted. The problem is that they insinuated that it's invalid to complain about tankies because of those failings. It was an absolutely asinine comment.
At least here, you don’t get deleted/banned for disagreeing with the hive. Check the mod logs and look at all the cowards banning people For being liberal in .ml and the like..