It very well could have been. However, I'd note that I'd seen similar sentiments from individuals who were not trolls (or at least have been keeping the troll up on their online persona for several years) in 2021. It was a good year for salt.
• All our icons are disgraced
• The free market doesn't work
• The cops we thought we were defending
The takeaway from all this should be "they were correct about these things." Instead, it seems to be "being wrong makes us look ridiculous," and there anon's thinking stops.
Which is an interesting window into their worldview: the worst thing in the world is not severe injustice and immorality from those who claim to be just and moral, the worst thing in the world is...looking stupid.
These toxic knuckle-draggers still have WAAAAAY too much political agency from any way you look at it. Even if they were one twentieth the size, they'd still be a clear and present danger that must be stomped and ridiculed back into whatever hole (and mother's basement) they slithered out of.
This was posted in 2021, since then the white supremacists have figured out that they can just double down instead of giving up and not being racist pieces of shit.
As for tankies... those fuckers are real, and are also pretty gross. But do note that a tankie is a specific type of authoritarian loving communist, who is perfectly happy to watch a communist country use literal tanks to crush any attempt at free speech or democracy.
After all, the original tankies cheered on the Soviet crushing of the Hungarian revolution, a revolution led by the local communists who wanted to remain a communist country, just not a soviet country.
I say that you cannot have a true communist country unless it's also a true democracy. Having a single party with all others made illegal doesn't count.
You also cannot have a true democracy under unchecked capitalism. But everyone knows that one.
After all, the original tankies cheered on the Soviet crushing of the Hungarian revolution, a revolution led by the local communists who wanted to remain a communist country, just not a soviet country.
Hungarians: "Actually, our interim government consists of a supermajority of socialist parties and we intend to-"
Tankies today: "F A S C I S T S"
I can honestly afford tankies back then a little more leeway - at least some of them were simply ignorant and giving the Sovs the benefit of the doubt given the limited ability to filter through information across the Iron Curtain reliably - but now we have so much information at our fingertips that it's hard to believe people still repeat long-discredited propaganda.
Ignore the Sea Lion below me. He's just JAQing off, as tankies love to do. I have him blocked, but I still get notifications lmao.
I feel like this may have been satire when originally posted, or someone trying to troll them a bit. Too on the nose, not as much dogwhistle as what I'm used to from that group.
Having said that, our conservatives have absolutely turned themselves into a laughingstock, there's no doubt of that. This was abundantly clear midway through 2020, and it's only accelerated since then.
Even less funny is that, despite all their bugshit crazy shenanigans, there's still enough of them that 2024 could go their way, and then we're all proper fucked.