• CosmicTurtle0 [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    14 hours ago

    I have so many questions. I guess I never viewed as “tankie” as left.

    Hell, I consider myself far-left to the point of being a progressive, almost to the point of being an anarchist.

    But my reality is rooted in actual facts.

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      3 hours ago

      Note that the term “tankie” has become an anti-communist trope to demonize any person who’s to the left of free universal healthcare.

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      13 hours ago

      Tankies only call themselves as leftists.

      And some places, like Hexbear, aren’t genuinely anything at all except people seeking “the dunk” - the appearance of winning an argument regardless of the reality of it (which requires a rigidly controlled echo chamber).

      Now that I mention it, there are some striking parallels to lemmy.ml’s echo chamber effect as well…

      The “look what you made me do” philosophy of tankies only claims to be leftist or progressive, while in reality whatever Russia, China, or North Korea does (including genocide) is okay, while anything done by the Western world (including exist) is not.