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TinyPizza ,
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I wondered, are these activists tankies or just dead set against support of war in any form. Tankies it is then:

Michael Rubin, writing for the Washington Examiner, has stated that Code Pink has amplified Chinese government propaganda denying the Uyghur genocide.[62] In June 2023, Code Pink activists visited the offices of the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party where, according to an aide of House member Seth Moulton, they denied accusations of forced labor in Xinjiang and suggested Moulton visit Xinjiang.

By no means is war the answer, but helping Ukraine to defend its people and sovereignty at this moment in time is the right thing to do.

CollisionResistance OP ,

Exactly. What I am worried about is that more than half the country is tankie.

edition.cnn.com/2023/08/04/politics/…/index.html

I, on the other hand am ready to fight till the last Ukrainian. And if we have to give 5 trillion gajillion too, then it is a sacrifice I am willing to make. Because we must protect democracy and freedom in Ukraine.

krolden ,
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I, too, salute the meatgrinder. o7

TinyPizza ,
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Those numbers might be skewed towards a certain selection bias. Per the article:

The CNN poll was conducted by SSRS from July 1 through 31 among a random national sample of 1,279 adults initially reached by mail. Surveys were either conducted online or by telephone with a live interviewer. Results for the full sample have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.7 percentage points; it is larger for subgroups.

The fact that the people in the survey had to respond to initial correspondence by mail makes me think that the survey self selects for an older audience (age was mentioned nowhere.) That mixed with the sampling error could easily just represent a 50/50 split, which is pretty par for the course. Wouldn't call them tankies though as their ideological manipulation comes from the other side of the political spectrum.

krolden ,
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Show some polls to the contrary then.

TinyPizza ,
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I'm not your google waiter dawg. Go snap your fingers at someone else.

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