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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Do MLs consider anarchists liberals now?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Anarchists tend to be smart enough to not use the word tankie.

There are exceptions of course.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

That's been my only exposure to the term, is hearing/seeing anarchists say it. Do liberals really use that term?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Liberals do use it since "commie" lost its zing. Go to any reddit thread where somebody is speaking sense and there'll be a liberal going "don't listen to him, I saw his history and he's a tankie", likewise with any Facebook thread when some blue no matter who page says something profoundly silly

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Generally not. Anarchists and Marxists want separate goals and have separate means, but Liberalism is a separate ideology.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I'm aware, I've just never heard/seen a liberal use the word "tankie"- though I don't often expose myself to liberals... Are libs actually using that word now? I would literally laugh out loud at the hypocrisy if I witnessed that

[–] [email protected] 13 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Go to lemmy world. Any political comm. Or check in on reddit.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 23 hours ago

Don't go to Reddit, even to prove a point. It's a very silly place.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago

I block every liberal with a shit take I come across (like 200 .world users so far lol) so that could explain why I haven't seen it much

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I've seen many I definitely don't think are Anarchists use it, and I've even seen Anarchists and Liberals get labeled "tankies." It's a generic term used like BadEmpanada is referring to, a largely meaningless catch-all for Leftists.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

That is whack; thanks for sharing

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago

No problem. There are many on Lemmy.world for sure who use it that way, same with Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

That would be silly but tankie is also a silly term.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (53 children)

I'm not into that authoritarian stuff. Worshipping a fascist authoritarian state is not a leftist make.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago

"Liberal" is just

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Do people genuinely take badempanada seriously?

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 14 hours ago

Shut up, tankie!

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