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[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (51 children)

Holy shit. Too bad instances can't defederate HB. They seem to not understand that they're tankies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (34 children)

Too bad instances can't defederate HB.

Can you please elaborate?

They seem to not understand that they're tankies.

Tankie is a social construct and is used to lazily discredit everyone to the left of bernie. It functions to libs the same way as "woke" functions for chuds. As a term it's basically meaningless to anyone outside of the internet.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (30 children)

I have only seen it used in reference to people who support dictatorial regimes with socialist aesthetics, mostly MLs. I have yet to see an anarchist be called a tankie. Also you can hear it IRL, not commonly though since most MLs are on twitter and the like and not IRL.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And I assume by "dictatorial regimes" you mean any actually existing socialist country, right?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, I do not. I made it clear multiple times that dictatorships with socialist aesthetics aren't socialist in any other way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Sure, but the evil potato chips are still Cuba, China, Vietnam etc, right?

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