conservatives wouldnt use it because they don't follow leftist internet shit, and they already think liberals are communists so no point in even using the word.

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Someone on Twitter was trying to explain to me that Tankie somehow meant right wing because something something Maupin? And I just kept asking him "Who is Maupin? Is he some kind of twitch streamer?" because 1.) I don't actually know anything about Maupin except he is some kind of grifter sex pest and 2.) It's really, really funny that this guy was using some extremely online cult guy with maybe a few hundred followers to explain why millions of socialists around the world were actually bad socialists.

    • 4zi [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Maupin was a part of the Patriotic Socialism/magacommunism/mecha tankie dumb online shit we’ve been seeing crop up. So the person who was saying tankie means right wing is (in their specific view) correct because those types of debate bros see revolution stemming from their hyper idealized version of a right wing proletariat (middle class jet ski dealership owners, fail sons, foremans, hvac company owners, etc)

      But they are also a reaction of leftist ideology, so calling them a tankie is also traditionally incorrect

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        yes but they are also a weird terminally online group of about 100 people so aren't a major part of the left. It would be like referining hexbear as proof unions are bad