This stuff drives me fucking mad. Vaush getting talked about even by UK supposed leftists and these idiots are feeding the "tankies bad" mindset with this shit.
He runs The Canary so while this is just a small account at the moment it won't be later on and he already has a platform that a lot of the UK left sees regularly.
I do not want this american sectarian bullshit to get imported to Britain please bully this guy.
Didn't the tankie shit start in the UK, with Trotskyists using it as a term to describe leftists that supported Stalin sending in the tanks in Hungary? So it's coming full circle
It once specifically referred exclusively to that.
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It was good that it went away and it is fucking annoying that it's come back in a far worse form that functions solely to move people further away from revolutionary leftism.
As is/was intended by the usage of that term