you can't seriously believe being a tankie is worse than being a pedophile, or a liberal democrat

bpd-dylan-hall-deactivated20190:

(1) I don’t pick who I vote for based on their personal worth as human beings

(2) liberal democrats are not apologists for a regime that killed tens of millions of people and if you are an apologist for such a regime it is a very bad idea to give you the ability to use state violence

(2) Yes they are.

…which is not to say that I think being a liberal democrat is a particularly bad idea, as such things go, or that tanky beliefs are particularly trustworthy.  But “you’re wrong because your ideology ties you to a historical entity responsible for grotesque atrocities” is not a game that anyone wins.