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[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Its in tankies best interest to have a kremlin agent elected and in power. Its what they're paid to do/blackmailed with cp for

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (77 children)

Anyone that uses the term "Tankie" unironically to refer to people to the left of them and the Democratic party are not a part of the left.

It's always helpful to identify the liberals that are getting "scratched" though.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

It's a self report on the level of people who use dog whistles so loud they are foghorns. Just a word or two in the right context and you know you can ignore everything else you've read by them in the last 30 seconds.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)

Tankies are Republicans and fascist sympathizers

If you support authoritarians you aren't a communist

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

If centrists wanted criticism of republicans, they could have done that more.

But then they might not have got the endorsement of dick cheney. establishment democrats punched left and embraced the right.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago

Its like how they never go after the war crimes of the last guy, it would open themselves to be prosecuted for their own war crimes.

Why call out the bad things Trump does when you can court the mythical unicorn of "the disillusioned Republican" who is somehow not a total Fox News-brainwashed racist dipshit. Calling him and his supporters would would hurt a possible ex-Trump voter. All 4 of them.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Question: If you are in a country outside the US; And you unironically love china you see them as a viable alternative to America , as a market and for their technological achievements; are you considered by Americans to be a Tankie? I've always had the idea that "Tankie" equals "traitor" in the eyes of Americans.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

~~AFAIK, originally "tankie" comes from being on chinas side of the Tianamen Square Massacre. So on the side of the tanks. It doesn't have directly to do with U.S.~~

~~So if someone thinks that China did good there, they are likely a tankie.~~

Update: I looked it up and it seems I was wrong, it was about arguing in favor of using tanks in the Hungarian Revolution. See more here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

According to Christina Petterson, "Politically speaking, tankies regard past and current socialist systems as legitimate attempts at creating communism, and thus have not distanced themselves from Stalin, China, etc."

So you also have to consider yourself a supporter of what you understand "Comminism" means, to be one.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

this is incorrect, the origin of the term "tankie" comes from the UK in the 50s, used to refer to hard-line communists. The term references the USSR sending the military to Hungary in 1956 in response to the Hungarian Revolution.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So for example, If I am in the social democrat party of my country or at least support them. And if the social democrat party of my country partly supports China, views them as allies or adopt economic policies of China does that mean we are all Tankies? This speaking of real economic policies treaties and not just abstract ideology.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Really..? I feel like all the tankie (tanky?) discourse I've personally seen has only had vile hatred to say about trump. (namely hexbear)

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