Dunking on Tankies from a leftist perspective. A tankie is someone who
defends/supports authoritarian or even totalitarian regimes who call themselves
“socialist”. The term originated from people supporting the 1956 invasion of
Hungary by the Soviet Union. Nowadays they are just terminally online, denying
genocides, and falling for totalitarian propaganda and calling such regimes
“true democracies”.
"Totalitarian" and "authoritarian" do so much lifting in these arguments.
afaik they don't mean anything. They're purely vibes based and usually thought terminating cliches. I don't think most of these people could name any non-authoritarian countries anywhere, or if they did they'd identify something absurd like the US or France or something. I have no idea what totalitarian is supposed to mean, I think it's just the Great Man view of history taken to an extreme. ie Stalin and his big spoon. Like the common use of the term is either purely vibes, or just absurdly naive.
afaik they don't mean anything. They're purely vibes based and usually thought terminating cliches. I don't think most of these people could name any non-authoritarian countries anywhere, or if they did they'd identify something absurd like the US or France or something. I have no idea what totalitarian is supposed to mean, I think it's just the Great Man view of history taken to an extreme. ie Stalin and his big spoon. Like the common use of the term is either purely vibes, or just absurdly naive.
Stalin big spoon you say?... 🥺👉👈
right? is there a government that isn't "authoritarian"? it wouldn't even make logical sense
Authoritarian means bad country and freedom means good country, that’s about it