The purchase of The Baltimore Sun is further proof that conservative billionaires understand the power of media control. Why don’t their liberal counterparts get it?
The interesting thing with Tankies is that many of them are blatantly pro-autocrat, believing wholeheartedly that the single-party state needs a singular leader with essentially unlimited power vested in them in order to prevent counter-revolutionary movements, when in actuality that power is just used to quash the whole DotP and ‘stateless’ aspiration parts, and they just end up supporting right-wing outcomes like Putin and Xi, and being unwilling to admit that’s what they are.
Ah good point. Tankies are indeed a bit like this on the left-wing side. I forgot about them.
The interesting thing with Tankies is that many of them are blatantly pro-autocrat, believing wholeheartedly that the single-party state needs a singular leader with essentially unlimited power vested in them in order to prevent counter-revolutionary movements, when in actuality that power is just used to quash the whole DotP and ‘stateless’ aspiration parts, and they just end up supporting right-wing outcomes like Putin and Xi, and being unwilling to admit that’s what they are.