Worst part is this was posted by a Professional Redditor(tm) who has like 200k karma and posts on tankiejerk. Mfs can’t even realize when they’re getting astroturfed.

    • Sphere [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Libs get mad at tankies because tankies have a coherent and consistent ideology that draws on real-world material reality for its justification, which makes them difficult to argue with online. This probably also applies to other tendencies too, but apparently libs have an easier time with them, probably because they aren't directly challenging decades of US propaganda about AES states.

    • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Putting aside the ideological incoherence of liberals, tankies have no power. They have no influence. The Chinese government isn’t even promoting communism overseas and neither is any other socialist government. No one gives a shit about tankies in the real world

      I think that's kind of the point. If there's one thing liberals love, it's punching down, and who has less power than a couple basement dwellers on the internet?

    • BolsheWitch [she/her, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      For all intents and purposes, “tankieism” is no different than posadism. Just a bunch of terminally online nonsense. Just a bunch of children with free time on their hands pretending to be activists because it’s easy to fight a practically imaginary enemy than it is to fight a real one.

      Was with you up until this. There are a decent amount of Marxists in the imperial core out there doing good work. We’re just not a conventional political threat, particularly with electoral politics.

      Edit: did you mean the anti-tankies are children with free time?

    • Deadend [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I wish the genzedong kids were as powerful as modern fascists- in either regard.

    • Cowboyitis69 [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      They identify with the 3 arrows movement, which successfully stopped the fascists and WW2 never happened

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    This shit is 100% why I call myself a communist, not a socialist. If you call me a tankie I will say yeah I'm a tankie. I don't actually identify as a "tankie" because its a nonsense word detached from real political analysis. I just refuse to allow these people their stupid little own. Smug bullshit. What world can you win with smug bullshit?

      • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        It is as inevitable as the heat death of the universe. When that day comes I'll be saying "I'm a Marxist-Leninist" and they'll smugly say "oh so you mean a Stalinist?" and I'll say yeah, you're goddamned right.

            • MerryChristmas [any]
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              3 years ago

              Sucks that all the post-millenial generations are named after frats.

              • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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                3 years ago

                In retrospect naming generations after letters and starting at the end of the alphabet was probably not the move

          • mimeschoolprof [he/him,comrade/them]
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            edit-2
            3 years ago

            I remember seeing a video of a guy who calls himself a communist/marxist and he literally claims he doesn't need to read theory because he listens to Mike Duncan podcasts

            Edit: his username is "thehistorywizard"

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    1 year ago

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  • FunnyUsername [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    196 is literally full of children so it's kind of hard to be upset about this

  • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    This unending red-scare among western internet leftists is miserable and stupid. It's one thing for skeevy "online influencer" types to push it, but another for seemingly so many dipshits to take the bait.

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      If there weren't so many people out there primed for it already then there would be no grift for influencers to latch on to.

    • OgdenTO [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Without an account I can't view this. It does work, though if I use https://old.reddit.com/r/MoreTankie196/comments/u4n3c0/antidebate_bro_aktion/

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Tankie skinhead wearing a misspelled nazi band shirt (it's Skrewdriver, the original artist is cringe after too)

  • sandinista209 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Dumb Reddit libs letting “tankies” live in their heads rent free when they have no political power in real life, at least in the western world.

    • invo_rt [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      They're acting like if enough "tankies" post, the collective psychic energy is going to raise Stalin from the Soviet necropolis he's buried in and he'll decimate the US and the west.

    • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      My favorite is when they start frothing at the mouth about tankies taking over the sub and flood it with posts several days of how they're taking a real stand and you're a genocide denier if you don't think China is literally Satan's army.

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

    So did the original meme say Nazis instead of tankies lmao

    Seems really telling, if so, to cover that up for this shit.

    Looks like it should say keep Nazis out of punk, which is a common slogan

    • MerryChristmas [any]
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      3 years ago

      Based on the skinhead's Screwdriver t-shirt, I think we can safely assume the original meme said "Nazi." And yeah, appropriating anti-Nazi slogans to slander tankies - the same people who literally stopped the Nazis - is grotesque.

      • invo_rt [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        It sure as hell wasn't western libs that did it :joker-troll:

  • YoungSophocles [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    So bad when you realize they pasted over what said “kick nazis out of punk”

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

      Yeah ok that's what I was thinking. What the fuck lmao. This is just Nazi shit then, not even libs. Just actual Nazi posting

  • Foolio [any]
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    3 years ago

    Yes, the tankie fans of (checks notes)... "Rock Against Communism".

  • Cowboyitis69 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Communism is an evil ideology. What r/196 wants is wholesome social democracy like they have in the enlightened homogenous Nordic countries :so-true:

    • invo_rt [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Speaking of Nordic countries, just what was Finland up to in the 40s?

      :joker-troll:

      • Cowboyitis69 [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        A glorious war to reclaim their rightful land the evil soviets took from them a year prior :so-true: