Charlie Stross on Nostr: Tankies' gonna Tankie, and by tankies I'm talking about the "Russia's can do no ...
Tankies' gonna Tankie, and by tankies I'm talking about the "Russia's can do no wrong" crowd, and by wrong I mean stuff like assassinating foreign leaders ands their own dissidents, invading the neighbors, trying to overthrow democracies and install fascist dictators, foreign election interference, and genocide.
As Lenin put it, "the capitalists will sell us the rope we hang them with." Or in this case, the tankies.
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