In their defense, Memri TV screenshots are fucking hilarious and I will not pretend they are not.
MeanwhileOnGrad
"Oh, this is calamity! Calamity! Oh no, he's on the floor!"
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Meanwhile On Grad
Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!
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Alternatively, a detailed blog post about Tankies.
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I hate to admit that yes they are gold.
By Allah, you people are dogs. I will go on as usual.
It's kind of a modern minstrel show, so I'm afraid you're cancelled now.
Sorry.
No
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Well I'll be. It turns out you can, in fact, just not consent because it's not a real thing.
I've once again won.
People just don't realize just how hard we, the French, get off on you being mad at us.
Genuinely nothing more enjoyable in my life than a bunch of people going stark raving mad over us existing.
Well then you will be glad to know that I, despite totally despising your language, are forced to learn it anyway cause now I'm living in a french speaking city...
Why do the tankies dislike France?
A French Lemmy instance hurt their feelings.
My guess would be that as France tried to recover from WWII they stubbornly tried to claw back their imperial holdings, basically starting the Vietnam War and probably some other more minor conflicts that I'm not remembering right now.
Not that you should expect good faith reasoning from .mlgrad.
Well there's also the recent and completely predictable political development where the liberal parties formed a government with fascist support.
That the erosion of French civil liberties is still miles above most "AES" is irrelevant.
OK but who likes France?
Not french people, that's for sure
Even they hate French people.
Well, y'know... broadly gestures at centuries of imperialism
Self counterpoint : Jean Jaurès was one of the most based leftists to ever live. But he was probably not authoritarian enough for them
So the only based Arab TV? Interesting.