The context to this is saying about how they're not a fan of the subreddit LeftWingMaleAdvocates, which is a bad subreddit, it's mostly just anti-feminist and basically just MRA, but they just call themselves left-wing. Most of their "left-wing" stuff is actually just "classical liberal" talking points, so they are bad, but calling them tankie is ridiculous.
i've seen people use it against anarchists lmao
:yea: I got called a tankie once for using the phrase “imperial core”
We're gonna see :liberalism: get called a tankie on live TV by :live-tucker-reaction: one of these days
God I hope so, maybe people would finally figure out how meaningless the term is in contemporary context.
No, no, no, it's gonna get hyper-commodified like every remotely lefty shit that isn't demonized by the libs and hyper-demonized like every remotely lefty shit that isn't commodified by the hogs
Yeah but then they gotta come up with a new term for us which would be a refreshing change.
Language is an arms race.
Neera Tanden calls Tucker carlson a tankie rather than the other way round
AOC, Bernie, or should he win, Fetterman, are going to be called tankies before Pelosi.
Fetterman will simply use his enormous arms to lift hecklers up to his enormous mouth and devour them, much like Saturn devouring his son.
Fetterman needs to become Mike Haggar.
When he becomes Governor, he'll institute his plan to hide cooked turkeys inside of randomly placed oil drums to ensure that everyone's health bars stay topped off
Fetterman isn't running for Governor. He's running for Senate.
Mike Haggar eventually becomes Governor of whatever state Final Fight takes place in
Fetterman could legit just go, "yeah I'm a tankie" :gigachad-hd: and destroy any negative connotations the term had instantly
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Happens to me all the time lol
Every time I have a discussion about history with American leftists (actual leftists doing good praxis but still having some brainworms) I have to preface everything with "I'm an anarchist but"
Oh man, I work with Food not Bombs sometimes and they're the sweetest people I've ever met and doing the best work ever. Some of them though are so obsessed with the supposed lurking threat of tankies everywhere it's hard to talk with them outside of very immediate praxis. They even call American police "tankies" sometimes. One time a comrade called a public library a tankie facility because it had books by Marx inside.
I'd still take these comrades over any liberal though. I'd die for them and that's more important
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For real, I would add to that some of Lenin as well. They observed immutable facts of reality and you can use their analysis for more than just building the dictatorship of the proletariat.
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:thonk:
I mean yeah he's my friend and does a lot of work for homeless people but he's got a bit of American brainworms
Yeah I've had similar experiences, funny enough they would call Keith McHenry one of the founders of their org a tankie when he is very much not one, just has good takes on imperialism.\
(unfortunately he also has some antivaxx brainworms last I talked to him)