We are two months away from "The fanatic tankie left dividing our country" Washington post article.
"self-identified"
Mmm gotta love that gatekeeping. Not an attempt to divide the left, they swear.
Can you believe these tankies are calling themselves communists without official certification?
I bet you didn't even get your official certified communist diploma from notafed.com
Tankie man, tankie man, tankie man does whatever a tankie does.
Builds a state massive size
Gets a heart attack and dies
Look out! Here comes the tankie man!
The thing about tank man is that he walked away and lived. If he were in the evil empire he'd been shot to pieces.
some states now have laws allowing police to run over protestors in america so its hillarious how the instance of someone standing in front of a tank ,getting to talk with the PLA member and not getting run over and leaving is the evil secret authoritarianism that will make chinese people disappear from the internet
That's what's been on my mind a lot. Not a chance in hell if something like that were to happen in the US would that guy walk away. He would have been shot or straight up ran over immediately at worst and best case scenario arrested and imprisoned for years for assaulting an officer.
For all intents and purposes Tankie is basically a dis for anti-imperialist now.
tfw, the imperialists call you a "tankie" when you don't support their use of tanks
We're just going to end up going full circle. Tankie will describe the broader anti war, anti regime change left and ironically the only people who don't actually want to send in the tanks anymore.
Every time I see a headline that says "Pro Democracy Hong Kongers Stand Up To X" I just remember what Joshua Wong and his nerd friends look like and chuckle :le-pol-face:
The whole game is rhetorical, from the American angle. And "western communists" undermine the "America is coming to your rescue if you just revolt hard enough" narrative.
The only thing trots actually do is teaching libs how to be better anti-communists, like he literally invented horseshoe theory.
