i think the whole anti-tankie thing is an op. it came so fucking quickly. in the bernie days nobody cared about the deep left like it just suddely took over the entire left space
And subsequently banned for being too Chapo-adjacent, yeah.
Either way, the term "tankie" is just an upgraded term for "Antifa" or "Stupid Leftist" or "Naderite" or "Card Carrying Member of the ACLU". There was always a word for "people who are so left that they are crazy" and this is just the latest iteration.
The only appropriate response is :tankie: . Really fucks with the Neoliberals, because you know that gang would have loved Dukakis 40 years ago.
r/ChapoTrapHouse was at the bleeding edge of Reddit culture (in both positive and negative aspects). A lot of discussions, arguments, terminology, snowclones, and memes originated there and flowed downstream to the defaults and r/all.
For instance, someone did a data visualization on the use and spread of "OK Boomer" and r/CTH was the vanguard. The same could very well be true of the "tankie" discourse, considering the fact that it only gets worse as it rolls downhill like a giant Katamari ball of dog shit.
i think more and more people (me included) looked at the failure of the bernie+corbyn projects and only went further left, i would openly describe myself as a marxist leninist communist now but it took me about 5 years to get here. i imagine there are many others who have followed a similar path.
i would openly describe myself as a marxist leninist communist now but it took me about 5 years to get here
Honestly, I still stick with "Independent". Anything else is too much of a mouthful, and its the sort of non-answer that leaves people receptive to what you say next because its too difficult to pigeon-hole. Just shamelessly co-opting the Third Way rhetoric, because its a great way to get people to engage you further rather than doing the click-whirr mental shutdown they're programmed to do when they hear the C-word.
i think the whole anti-tankie thing is an op. it came so fucking quickly. in the bernie days nobody cared about the deep left like it just suddely took over the entire left space
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Ya that's why moretankiechapo was made, right?
And subsequently banned for being too Chapo-adjacent, yeah.
Either way, the term "tankie" is just an upgraded term for "Antifa" or "Stupid Leftist" or "Naderite" or "Card Carrying Member of the ACLU". There was always a word for "people who are so left that they are crazy" and this is just the latest iteration.
The only appropriate response is :tankie: . Really fucks with the Neoliberals, because you know that gang would have loved Dukakis 40 years ago.
oh was that word commonly used back then? i thought that totally resurfaced last year except for in fringe trot circles
r/ChapoTrapHouse was at the bleeding edge of Reddit culture (in both positive and negative aspects). A lot of discussions, arguments, terminology, snowclones, and memes originated there and flowed downstream to the defaults and r/all.
For instance, someone did a data visualization on the use and spread of "OK Boomer" and r/CTH was the vanguard. The same could very well be true of the "tankie" discourse, considering the fact that it only gets worse as it rolls downhill like a giant Katamari ball of dog shit.
/r/anarchism was calling people tankies in 2014
i think more and more people (me included) looked at the failure of the bernie+corbyn projects and only went further left, i would openly describe myself as a marxist leninist communist now but it took me about 5 years to get here. i imagine there are many others who have followed a similar path.
Honestly, I still stick with "Independent". Anything else is too much of a mouthful, and its the sort of non-answer that leaves people receptive to what you say next because its too difficult to pigeon-hole. Just shamelessly co-opting the Third Way rhetoric, because its a great way to get people to engage you further rather than doing the click-whirr mental shutdown they're programmed to do when they hear the C-word.
Its feels like a moral panic, a hysteria even.
I read this in Snagglepuss's voice, was that intentional