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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Found the tankie.

Honestly What bullshit.

Tankie is a slur for authoritarian communists.

There is a healthy and honest way to appreciate communism, Russia, the CCP and even DPRK.

And then there are people who are completely shilling the CCP Russia DPRK as communist uptopias. These people are tankies.

If you are unable to recoginze the atrocities commited at any point in history, by the USA China, Russia , or any other country for that Matter. You're a chump.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are the tankies in the room with us right now, shitlib?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah some of them. I think im speaking to one right now.

Pleae tell me your totally not tankie ideas.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Am I a tankie? I like socialism but think communism (total state control) is too far. We need, as AOC said, "an end to unregulated capitalism", but we can't go the authoritarian route of China or North Korea. I envision socialism as Norway and Sweden, these nations that have achieved harmony through peace and cooperation with liberal capitalism; we need nations that don't put down pro-democracy protests or have "socialist" attitudes around immigration/investment which restrict genuine freedom. I have seen several "tankies" (I hope I am using this right) say, verbatim, "North Korea is heaven on earth and a genuine utopia in every way", which really worries me. I tried to show them Yeonmi Park videos and Human Rights in North Korea articles but they all just laugh at me. Honestly I've considered leaving this instance, since even anarchism seems too far to me (how will capitalism be regulated without a state?), plus a lot of anarchists here are tankies as well, and they have no regard for human rights or the genocide China is currently committing. My only shining light of hope is the people like you who check these attitudes with credible sources and expose these lies in detail. Slava ukraini and freedom to all!

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

You're not a tankie. Tankies deny the oppressive nature of Russia, China, North Korea etc., deflecting all critique with whataboutism by pointing at shortcomings or atrocities of Western nations. Some like to call you Nazi or imperialist if you disagree with them, while in many aspects their ideology and that of their paragon countries is much closer to Nazism than that of liberal democracies like the ones you mentioned.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You all use tankie exactly the same way republicans use woke. As a meaningless thought-terminating cliche deployed against literally everyone to your left to avoid actually learning anything.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Or the way tankies use the phrase 'libs.'

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not really? The only thing you ever say to us is "tankie" or accuse us of being bots of some sort. You never actually engage in any discourse. That's why you have this terminology, it functions as a method of literally dodging any engagement with anything we say, effectively by calling someone a tankie you give yourselves a socially acceptable way to avoid learning anything from socialists. It's thought-terminating.

If you have anything worth saying that's actually in good-faith I will completely engage with you. The point is that you deploy this word to avoid any engagement. The tactic is exactly the same tactic as the conservatives use to avoid any right-wing people engaging with anything to the left of them, if it's "woke" they can switch off their brain and exercise avoidance to learning anything about it that might make them think differently.

Liberals, of both the conservative and democrat variety, both use exactly the same tactic on the people to their left.

Talk to me about something a marxist has just dismissed you on with the use of "lib". I am happy to talk to you about it. What do you want to say? We call you libs because you ARE libs. You support Liberalism. The ideology of capitalism. Our actual analog to "tankie" is calling you dronies.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is a healthy and honest way to appreciate communism, Russia, the CCP and even DPRK.

Please tell us more about those healthy and honest "anti-authoritarian" non-tankie communists. Who are they and what political results have they made?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sankara supported the USSR and DPRK, just like all actual communists do

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Im not a communist, i am an anarchist.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then why are you telling communist to read about Sankara, a figure we already know and love

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Becuase he is am example of a communist I support.

People keep calling me a liberal. Im an anarchist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sankara was ML like all the people you're calling tankies. I respect him too. What makes him good and and the rest of us evil "authoritarians"?