I know I know, this is low tier trash. I just thought the sudden "plot twist" at the end was funny.
A tankie is someone who says something that reveals my unexamined bigotry and/or incoherent ideology on the internet. This makes them fascists.
The term "tankie" is so watered down at this point it has no meaning. It's just a subjective euphemism for "I personally dislike it." Which is a great sentiment if building a movement.
9/10 times just means someone with a better historical understanding of the 20th century than me. most people using the term these days are fair weather twitter "socialists" with marvel movie utopian view of everything and no real understanding of things as basic as class struggle, imperialism let alone dialectical/historical materialism. and all western chauvinists of course.
I periodically see anarchists and libs who are pro-public healthcare get called tankies. Idk
Nordic model doesn't even exist anymore, got mostly eaten by capitalism over the last decade and a half
Pretty sure Norways also depended on having lots of oil money and not being invaded by America for said oil
real answer. It died alongside the other european welfare-states when it was no longer needed to placate soviet influence.
Nordic countries are currently speedrunning neoliberalism and privatization of all public services
The little time it did exist was maybe a ten year period or so in total. The dismantling of it was started in the 80s and went to full swing in the early 90s when the Soviet Union fell. In Finland the government took the IMF fully in and pledged to privatize and halt the advance of a welfare state in 1992.
It's such a pet peeve for me to see the Nordic model used in AmeriKKKan rhetoric as a thing that exists, it barely ever managed to exist.
what even is 196? i remember back when i used reddit, i would occasionally see left leaning memes from there but also would always see other leftists say it's a bad subreddit for liberals. i looked at it for like 10 seconds, had no clue what to make of it and never looked again. what even does 196 mean
I believe it was originally named after a college dorm room.
It's a bad subreddit for liberals, wouldn't be surprised if the people who had the original dorm have government jobs now.
The hornyposting makes me think it's full of gooners with a left affect.
followers and 196 venn diagram is a circle, I got banned for expressing doubt over Uyghur genocide claims.196 is a meme subreddit where the main rule is that anyone who visits is supposed to post a meme. It has a progressive lean and attracts baby leftists but they beefed hard with all the actually leftist subreddits
overfocusing on hating purity testing is another word for "I love tailism" and "I would sell you out for CIA-Healthcare"
lmao what. this dude is basically saying purity tests are bad except when they're used to demonize actually principled leftists. he's all but admitting he holds bigoted positions that he refuses to come to terms with let alone combat, so he doesn't like the way people talk about "centrists", and that energy should be shifted to attacking left wing people because left wing people actually understand their politics, have reasons for their politics, and examined their previously bigoted "centrist" politics to get to that left wing position.
"haha those leftist tankies... anyways lets send more tanks to ukraine"
The most frustrating thing about these Reddit radlibs is how open they are to give the benefit of the doubt to their fascist acquaintances and parasocial streamer friends but seeing anyone say "Maybe I have hope that China will make the world a better place" makes them rage so hard they'll kick you out of the 20 subreddits they moderate.
If you tell a lib youre a Trump voter, they will probably want to reach across the aisle though.
uncomfortable amounts of hornyposting
immediately knew which sub this was
Anyone to my right is a deranged fascist (who I actually will accept as my friend) but everyone to my left is an unserious tankie.
It's not really a plot twist. They're complaining that people have standards for what being left is (i.e. not wanting rightists in the movement). Following onto this, they hate on people who are more left-wing than them.
no no no you silly tankies just didn't understand that my esoteric vibes based leftism is actually correct
Sometimes a slightly funny meme makes it into my recomendations from that sub and then I make the mistake of going into the comments.
me omw to put pineapple on all the pizzas
