Godric@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 2 days agoA month before an election!? BlooMAGA, amirite???locklemmy.imagisphe.reimagemessage-square881linkfedilinkarrow-up11Karrow-down1171
arrow-up1830arrow-down1imageA month before an election!? BlooMAGA, amirite???locklemmy.imagisphe.reGodric@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 2 days agomessage-square881linkfedilink
minus-squaretakeda@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·2 days agoThe term “tankies” came from them backing using tanks on civilians. The term was mislabeled, they always were authoritarians.
minus-squareHCSOThrowaway@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down3·2 days agoAnd my phone “rings” even though it has no bell, and I “hang it up” even though I tap a pretend button on a screen. Terms change. “Tankie” means auth-left, not literally anyone in a tank. The term for someone who crushes civilians with a tank in the Auth-Right is “fascist,” even if they don’t carry fasces. Keep up. Pop open a dictionary every once in a while, or heavens forbid, touch grass or talk to people.
minus-squareParlimentOfDoom@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·1 day ago not literally anyone in a tank. No one made that argument.
minus-squareHCSOThrowaway@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 day agoOkay, pedant. Not literally anyone who has used a tank. Feel better?
The term “tankies” came from them backing using tanks on civilians.
The term was mislabeled, they always were authoritarians.
And my phone “rings” even though it has no bell, and I “hang it up” even though I tap a pretend button on a screen.
Terms change. “Tankie” means auth-left, not literally anyone in a tank.
The term for someone who crushes civilians with a tank in the Auth-Right is “fascist,” even if they don’t carry fasces.
Keep up. Pop open a dictionary every once in a while, or heavens forbid, touch grass or talk to people.
No one made that argument.
Okay, pedant.
Not literally anyone who has used a tank.
Feel better?