• brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml
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              11 months ago

              Everyday the definition of the word tankie becomes more nebulous; now it includes people who think the invasion of Iraq was a bad thing.

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                  11 months ago

                  Stable and oppressive are not mutually exclusive. But you have fun jerking off to a million dead Iraqis.

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                    11 months ago

                    Stable and oppressive are not mutually exclusive.

                    First, you said it was not oppressive, but stable, but nice try.

                    Second, they very much are. Oppression does not create a stable society, it merely bottles up tensions. But I wouldn’t expect a tankie fuck who gets hard over the deaths of minorities to understand that.

                    But you have fun jerking off to a million dead Iraqis.

                    Wanna remind me how many Iraqis Saddam’s regime killed?

                    God, imagine being so intellectually and morally bankrupt that you simp for Saddam’s Iraq. That’s some peak brainrot. I would say tankies never cease to amaze, but honestly, I’m not even a little surprised.

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            1 year ago

            You… you do realize that the crusades weren’t the only military conflict in the Levant, right?

            … right…?

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                    1 year ago

                    There was a bit of a minor scrap with some basically unknown fellows called the Mongols, and then there were the quarrels between the Mamluk Sultanate and the Turks, the constant rebellions and civil wars, then the Ottomans and the pseudo-feudal wars, separatist movements, and peasant revolts of that period, which include both prior-to and after the US’s founding.

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        1 year ago

        The Ottoman Empire was slowly conquering Iraq in the 1500, and uprises were happening from the 1600 on.