• ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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      because you are leftist too. right wingers will attack every leftist, and tankie is just a strawman for that purpose.

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      Lemmylibs think you guys are secret tankies because db0 and unruffled didnt support kamala for president

    • Edie [it/it/its/its/itself, she/her/her/hers/herself]@lemmy.ml
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      You didnt, only china is considered communist in the original. You’re on the forefront of the communist aggression, as seen with the arrows, because some parts of the fediverse considers you to be/going tankie, and because the user that was the starting domino for this was a db0 user.

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        Ill never understand why brainlets try to call /0 tankie given how much squabbling and total idealogical disagreement exists between it and the 3 pretty tankie instances.

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          Because you don’t knee-jerk support all of Epsteinland’s vassals and hate all it’s enemies, and that lack of head-empty jingoism is more than enough to land you on the smug imperialist’s shitlist.

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          Tankie is a gradually shifting pejorative for anyone that defends existing socialist states. Dbzer0 straddles the line between tankie/non-tankie because the average stance is less a defense of existing socialism and more towards skepticism towards allegations against existing socialism, which then depends on who is hurling the pejorative.

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            At this point tankie just means anyone who acknowledges there is nuance to historical and/or modern socialist states. You don’t even have to support or defend them to earn the pejorative, you get it just for saying that maybe the CIA lied about some things.

            Edit: after re-reading your comment I realize I am just repeating what you said.

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          When federation and the mass reddit migration happened it was always funny to see people call Hexbear’s anarchists tankies.