yeah slowly but surely the general online "tankie" seems to be referring to the magacommunist idiots. the average reddit "leftist" probably thinks we are part of that same group. keep wondering if we should just let this play out unimpeded or not.
pretty sure the "originators" of magacom didnt do it as a like.. FBI or CIA op, and they were just that stupid and lacking of understanding + wilfully negligent about why what they wanted to do was fucking stupid - just like Lyndon Larouche. but no doubt government groups could promote it to look bigger than it is. or the followers of Haz and such are just stupid reactionary communists obsessed with aesthetics and ignoring privilege, like them
not really. tankies is having a bit of a crisis in terms of meaning
you absolutely have ppl who never heard of magacoms/"mecha-tankies" or nazbols or Larouche using it for lib/anarchist reasons to mean anyone who thinks communist states and their actions forcefully counter to Western hegemony are a necessity (usually to denigrate us for being "edgy" and "apologists" and having an actual understanding of imperialism and the horrors the US and its allies inflict in order to maintain it - edit: and implicitly that violent excesses by communists absolutely pale in comparison to what was happening because of imperialists before, during and after these excesses occurred... which isn't to be apologist but more to say that the nature of a state itself is violent, which needs to be acknowledged (among many other hard-earned lessons about revolution like the necessity of a state) to minimise Khmer Rouge type wanton loss of life and destruction.)
then there are certain smaller numbers of twitter leftists who do and are using it like you say. but i think informed communists don't call them tankies because why would they - that's just what theyve always been called and if you have a wit about you, you wouldn't want to muddy the waters and associate yourself with Larouchites (as someone thinking this way)
I mean, there is such a thing as these "MAGAcommunists". I think that's who the left libs are referring to, here.
This thing is actually older than MAGACommunists
When people say tankie, I’m assuming they mean all “authleft,” to use that awful terminology.
:gigachad-hd: Why, yes, I am part of the authentic left. How could you tell?
I love how people embrace the political compass, a quiz designed to make people think they're libertarian :kind-vladimir-ilyich:
yeah slowly but surely the general online "tankie" seems to be referring to the magacommunist idiots. the average reddit "leftist" probably thinks we are part of that same group. keep wondering if we should just let this play out unimpeded or not.
huh? tankie proliferated into lib spaces way before magacomunism was a thing.
and tankie just means someone is pissing their pants because they think their politics are the best and being on their left makes their brain hurt.
That entire thing is so obviously an op. They think they can peel people off the right and recruit them.
Nah. The right are too dumb to understand anything they say.
pretty sure the "originators" of magacom didnt do it as a like.. FBI or CIA op, and they were just that stupid and lacking of understanding + wilfully negligent about why what they wanted to do was fucking stupid - just like Lyndon Larouche. but no doubt government groups could promote it to look bigger than it is. or the followers of Haz and such are just stupid reactionary communists obsessed with aesthetics and ignoring privilege, like them
not really. tankies is having a bit of a crisis in terms of meaning
you absolutely have ppl who never heard of magacoms/"mecha-tankies" or nazbols or Larouche using it for lib/anarchist reasons to mean anyone who thinks communist states and their actions forcefully counter to Western hegemony are a necessity (usually to denigrate us for being "edgy" and "apologists" and having an actual understanding of imperialism and the horrors the US and its allies inflict in order to maintain it - edit: and implicitly that violent excesses by communists absolutely pale in comparison to what was happening because of imperialists before, during and after these excesses occurred... which isn't to be apologist but more to say that the nature of a state itself is violent, which needs to be acknowledged (among many other hard-earned lessons about revolution like the necessity of a state) to minimise Khmer Rouge type wanton loss of life and destruction.)
then there are certain smaller numbers of twitter leftists who do and are using it like you say. but i think informed communists don't call them tankies because why would they - that's just what theyve always been called and if you have a wit about you, you wouldn't want to muddy the waters and associate yourself with Larouchites (as someone thinking this way)