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[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My pet conspiracy theory is that a bunch of tankies are actually CIA trolls, in an effort to tie criticism of the US together with completely bonkers causes. The end goal being that if you think the US is not the best thing ever, you must be a tankie, and you support authoritarian regimes like Iran and China.

[–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Some of the tankie(bots) I have argued with on here are so contrarian that it seems that way to me, as well. They don't try to argue in good faith, and they never concede no matter how much they are proven wrong. I wouldn't be surprised if at least some of them are bots or bad actors either from the CIA, China, or Russia.