Jack-The-Rah is super active on r/tankiejerk tf

https://www.reddit.com/r/Gamingcirclejerk/comments/od1z8x/based_gamer/h3yfze0/?context=3

  • fairport [he/him,comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Ok, so Tianmen Square protests were a socialist protest now?

    As far as I know the student activists were so bourgeois liberal that even the capitalist roader Deng Xiaoping had to send in the tanks so the students could not usurp the CPC’s power.

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        The protestors also burned several military officials alive and shit like that before any crackdown occured

      • fairport [he/him,comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        How so? You could make an argument that tankie states are crushing dissent, but to say that they are crushing ”socialist protests” is pretty weird thing to say.

        All the major examples I can think of (Tianmen Square, Prague Spring) were cases were tanks were used against protestors who were pro-liberalization, not pro-socialism.

        Edit: I dunno, maybe I’m just arguing semantics now

        • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          Well, it's not necessarily convincing because you're the one who brought up Tiananmen Square. Those protests could be bougie liberal protests and "tankies" could be crushing socialist dissent at the same time, because no one prior to you brought up that specific incident. And there definitely is a history of leftist infighting, and considering the relatively greater success of "tankies" than anarchists as far as building large-scale societal movements, the "tankie" side of things does historically tend to come out on top of said leftist infighting.