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.

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Is Jeremy Corbyn a tankie? Putin's Puppet?

    :picard-troll: PUTIN :picard: ISN'T EVEN :picard-annoyed: A COMMUNIST :picard-direct-action: (but to be fair neither is Corbyn)

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      If Putin is not a communist, then how can he be Russian?

      Checkmate, liberals.

  • Commander_Data [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Never been more convinced that Vaush is a US security state asset. He spends so much time punching left, has to be.

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

    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

  • CantaloupeAss [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    I seriously fail to understand this video format. "Loser in basement REACTS to middling piece of popular culture", like who the fuck cares?

    The thumbnail of this video is a politician's face spliced together with a sidelit, dingy photo of a scruffy, solipsistic jerk. Before the internet, cutting out a photo of somebody and pasting next to a photo of yourself was considered lonely, sociopathic behavior. What changed?

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I do not want this american sectarian bullshit to get imported to Britain please bully this guy.

    "tankie" is actually British sectarianism that got imported to America

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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    2 years ago

    I do not want this american sectarian bullshit to get imported to Britain

    Two words: George Orwell.

  • TeaFilledWall [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    No he's a libshit milquetoast shitlib who I fucking hate.

    He should have literally made Stalin look a pacifist with hard he should have purged the labour party. Now we got slightly less Tory than Tory party but they still wants to throw trans people into a giant meat grinder. He was the last best hope for UK not to descend into utter shite and he did a Bernie and let everyone walk over him.

  • WalterBongjammin [they/them,comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Sadly the tankie shit is already in Britain from what I can tell from talking to my lib friends. Also, does anyone actually read The Canary? Feel like that thing was relevant for about three weeks in 2017

      • Awoo [she/her]
        hexagon
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        2 years ago

        He runs https://www.thecanary.co/ which unfortunately is rather well known within the left in the UK.

  • HornyOnMain
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    2 years ago

    I've seen this guy trying to promote his stuff on mastodon before

    • Awoo [she/her]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      He needs bullying because this shit just plays into the hands of liberals. Sure fine, I agree on Corbyn, but if you engage with the "tankies bad" shit you feed the right's effort to shift everyone rightwards.

  • mkultrawide [any]
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    2 years ago

    Jiminy Cruising isn't a tankie because he doesn't want to send tanks to Ukraine.

  • WeedReference420 [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Yeah, the Vaush brainworms are spreading, seen a lot of soft left types turn against Corbyn because he wants peace in Ukraine