Is bro telling on himself?
this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2026
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I mean, I guess you probably would? Epstein was explicitly targeting people with wealth and power to bring into his gross "parties", so if you had "tankies" with wealth and power, he'd have been targeting them and it's not unbelievable that some of them might have gone for it - if you gain the kind of wealth and power the people Epstein was courting have, you probably don't have any real moral principles.
I wonder why tankies never seem to have that wealth and power. Could it be that in order to become the kind of wealthy socialite Epstein was doing, you would have to abandon your communist principles entirely? No, it's the children that are wrong...
Are there any Chinese men in the Epstein files? Honestly curious.
It seems to have been a very international club. Yanks, Brits, Swedes, Russians, Israelis, South Africans. But I haven't heard of a single Chinese person - especially not a patriotic one - involved in the Epstein stuff.
You don't have to go that far. There are "tankies" with wealth and power and the only one who was ever anywhere near Epstein was Castro. Epstein never got near the governments of the other AES countries even when it would've been quite advantageous to him to do so, and when he had no issue getting close to government officials of other countries.
"If true, one wonders why, in country after country, these Reds side with the poor and powerless often at great risk and sacrifice to themselves, rather than reaping the rewards that come with serving the well-placed like nudes of underage girls at Epstein's pedo island." - Parenti paraphrased
You can prove anything I guess if you just make shit up. Tankies destroyed
"yeah, you're right, but have you considered you're wrong?"
The best thing about "tankies" right now is there really isn't a singular marxist-leninist figurehead. Let's say, I don't know, Richard wolff was in the files? Our entire ideology isn't tied to one old white dude so it wouldn't matter much.
Our entire ideology isn’t tied to one old white dude
Just because Marx and Lenin are dead doesn't make them not two old white dudes (with the caveat that alot of tankies love Mao who only met 2 of 3 of those criteria)
Well, they weren't in the Epstein files at least.
This is like a half-formed thought. They can observe that the people on Epstein's plane had access to power and "tankies" don't have access to power, and then the thought just stops before they make the connection between the two.
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Is the argument here that "tankies are further away from power"? What?
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Given more access to power...as if power isn't actively bargained for by these liberals. Nope they just gave Chomsky the pedophile wealth power like a fucking Green Lantern ring. The fucker just got done talking about how it's all about reciprocity. Can't even be consistent in their own narrative.
Also why weren't tankies given more power in this arrangement? Maybe there is a clue. Because tankies don't seek power by cuddling up to billionaire pedophiles nor enter into reciprocal exchanges of favors with them.
Has anyone ever told bro that most 'tankies' live in the Global South?
The usefulness of the concept of tankies is in part that it's so poorly defined that the category can shrink and expand at runtime to prove whatever point you want. Global South brown people aren't tankies (as long as we're actively entertaining that brown people exist and have their own subjectivity) because if they are, suddenly 95% of brown people who are leftists disagree with me and that'd make me look racist.
Chomsky isn't a tankie because he's said a bunch of things I agree with. But also he is a tankie because he defended the Khmer Rouge and was friends with Epstein. (surprised that the OOP didn't take advantage of some of Chomsky's uncharacteristic takes to make that point)
Foucault wasn't a tankie because he had a nuanced take on Israel (read: he was a zionist) and was very critical of AES. But also if his support of pedophilia is brought up he can become a tankie because he supported the Islamic Revolution in Iran.
These are 2 examples who are real people who have written about their political opinions extensively yet it's definitely possible for someone to find reasons to put them on either side of the "tankie" divide. If you want to do it with a more nebulous entity like a political community, hypothetical people (like the latter part of the OOP), or a whole country, you have infinite wiggle room. Anything can be used as a data point because the word is meaningless.
Donald Trump is a tankie because he visited North Korea
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I’ve been led to believe for two and a half years that jewish people are in fact not white but a uniquely special ethnic group that deserve to be able to do colonialism and commit genocide without criticism, never mind being stopped.
Interesting that they revert to being “white dudes” when it’s convenient.
If you met with Epstein but you were completely honest about it when questioned and nothing comes out of the files contradicting it, I’ll believe you. He certainly had meetings with non-pedophiles sometimes.
However, if it turns out you lied about a single detail of your relationship with Epstein, as far as I’m concerned that’s enough evidence to put you in prison for child sexual assault. There is no other reason to lie about your relationship with Jeffrey Epstein than trying to hide your crimes. Put everyone he’s ever sent an email to on trial, and put anyone found to have lied about it in prison forever.
Noam Chomsky is a pedophile and a child predator. Any mention of him should be “Notorious pedophile Noam Chomsky”
suddenly having access to power is a good thing for chomsky lovers?
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