This is a direct result of 3rd party apps for Reddit like Apollo and RIF shutting down on June 30 in response to the recent changes (like Reddit demanding $20m a year).
The mod says their work will be too hard w/o these apps as the official one is dogshit.
Sad day.
Also, much love to our mods/admins. Hopefully moderating this site is better than Reddit.
Tankie has really become the new red scare term to deployed at every instance of advocacy for actual communism/socialism or even just disagreement with the dominant “acceptable” versions of leftism - DemSoc/anarchism/left-libertarianism.
"Or love the word instanky" fixes the rhyming scheme, but doesn't quite have the right ring to it
How about, "Or love the word 'cause frankly" (and removing 'cause from the next line)
Implementing your fix for copying and pasting:
So you might as well ignore it,
Or love the word cause frankly,
you ain’t been doing nothing
If you ain’t been called a tankie
Tbh I'd like to update the whole song bc it's only gotten more relevant with chuds screaming woke at every little thing anyone does.
Which song?
You Ain't Done Nothing If You Ain't Been Called A Red
:miyazaki-laugh:
Honestly, I think the majority of this tankie-hatred from trans redditors is them confusing 'tankies' with patsocs and nazbols that are against LGBTQ+ people + calling it 'western bourgeois decadence'. This was an issue for me a couple years ago and why I avoided ML spaces before I started reading theory and learned the actual origin of the term tankie (and also met some cool Marxist trans folk). I feel like Hexbear's anti-sectarian policies really helped cultivate a space where non-Marxist leftists could be educated and just hang out with 'tankies' in a relatively non-judgemental community. I guess the answer is that it takes time for people to educate themselves and they have to want to be educated.
Libs: Hexbear is infested with with tankies. I bet they like people like Haz.
Hexbear: Hey, remember that time Haz was here shitting all over himself and got banned for saying smoking weed makes people gay.
Almost every trans person I've met is a socialist so I figure they caught some pretty advanced anticommunist socialist brainworms
Nazbols: “being gay and also gender equality is western decadence.”
Also nazbols: “you see, we need to gentrify leftism so the westerners will like us. Tailism totally works, guys. You really want to make the totally-working-class white suburbanite upset?”
Actual anarchism isn't an accepted position, you only get a pass when you're some V*ushite tool who thinks anarchism means being a nanoangstrom to the left of Biden
Lest not ye call another tankie lest ye be called a tankie
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