Sure, if your definition of "shilling for" is "rejecting US State Department narratives about".

Otherwise, it's like I said, it means "person to my political left making a point I can't refute".

https://welshundergroundnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/blackshirts-and-reds-by-michael-parenti.pdf

You appear to be trying to claim that OP is portraying everyone who says ‘both sides are the same’ as tankies

he is tho

in the same way that ‘liberal’ doesn’t actually mean ‘everyone who votes Democrat’.

yeah plenty of liberals are also republicans

it's a heavily sanctioned garrison state that emerged from a brutal colonial occupation and a war that killed a third of the population.

i dont particularly care for any states, but i have special contempt for the US. that makes it hard to share in the fearmongering about the US's designated enemies on the other side of the planet from where i live.

Hasan counts, IMO. He supports China, Cuba, etc. but focuses more on welfare capitalism. He gets called a tankie semi-frequently.