the_dunk_tank • 8 months ago

redditors currently discovering that the drawbacks of calling everyone left of bernie a tankie is that people just stop caring about the word tankie

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redditors currently discovering that the drawbacks of calling everyone left of bernie a tankie is that people just stop caring about the word tankie

the_dunk_tank • 8 months ago

Shot:

they are a legitimate threat to freedom and to anti-authoritarian leftists,

Chaser:

we shouldn't allow these people to exist in the internet free

https://old.reddit.com/r/tankiejerk/comments/197l9ik/tankie_is_not_offensive_anymore/

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8 months ago
Calling everyone that is a left adjacent non westerner a ''tankie'' has the same equivalent in calling every brown person with a gun a terrorist

It's political stupidity at best and racism at worst

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