It's gotten to the point where even the mildest effective leftism will have at least one idiot crying tankie.

I've seen a lot of anarchists get called tankies even.

  • mathemachristian [he/him]25•1 month ago

    Idk I think it's a natural consequence of people getting whipped up over NATO, war with russia and cold war with China.

    In order to bring a nation to support the burdens incident to maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to war psychology. There must be the portrayal of an external menace or of internal conditions rendered intolerable by the unjust restraints of foreign nations. This involves the development to a high degree of the nation-hero nation-villain ideology and the arousing of the population to a sense of the duty of sacrifice.

    John Foster Dulles in "War, peace and change" p90

    If you don't support the hero-nation, you're part of the villain-nation and will be addressed as such.