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[-] [email protected] 174 points 1 year ago

Tankies are fascists, so this isn’t surprising.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

To place Russian communism and Nazi-fascism on the same moral plane, in that both would be totalitarian, is superficial at best, fascism at worst. Whoever insists on this equation may well consider himself a democrat, in truth and in the bottom of his heart he is in fact already a fascist, and certainly only in a hypocritical and insincere way will he fight fascism, while reserving all his hatred for communism.

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[-] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago

NO U

Stunning. Incredible take.

Also they said fascism, not nazi-fascism. Tankies aren't nazis. They excuse completely different genocides than the holocaust.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

Russia is an oligarchy, not a communist state. Where have you been since the 1990s?

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Lol that is such stupid nonsense wtf 😂

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Found the tankie

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tankies are not fascist, they are just willing to do whatever it takes to defend the socialist revolution.

[-] [email protected] 120 points 1 year ago

If you're willing to do "whatever it takes" including instituting fascism, you're a fascist.

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[-] [email protected] 83 points 1 year ago

Such as justifying capitalist oligarchs that pretend to be socialists like Putin and Xi.

Actually, Putin doesn't even pretend to be socialist. He's pretty unashamedly capitalist. Tankies love the guy anyway.

[-] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago

Funny how the self-proclaimed vanguard of the radical left are just incoherent anti-western reactionaries wearing Marxism like a fig leaf, isn't it? Like, I'm all for breaking down the current neoliberal capitalist hegemony, but you've gotta have a hole in your head to want to replace it with a literal crime syndicate masquerading as a government or an oppressive hyper-capitalist dictatorship with imperialistic ambitions.

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[-] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago

Tankies don't give a fuck about socialism.

[-] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago

Tankies, just like other fascists, are willing to do whatever it takes to gain and keep power, including pretending to support socialism

[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

If I was to give this point of the benefit of the doubt (which, to be clear, I don't) what you're saying is that tankies are accelerationists. And I get it, to an extent -- a comfortable middle class isn't going to be concerned about the depredations of the right until they start to find themselves in the crosshairs -- but the last time fascists got their way in the world, more than 73 million people died. Arguing, in effect, that the aftermath of another world war will be better for the survivors is a... challenging point to defend when it requires you to dismiss the deaths of a significant percentage of the world's population, especially when those most in danger from a rising right wing are those that a supposed left-winger should most want to protect. Sacrificing religious, ethnic, and sexual minorities on the altar of a better future for religious, ethnic, and sexual minorities doesn't sit well with me.

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Whatever it takes including sending tanks after people because they don't agree with your rule or am I missing something? Tankies is literally authoritarian or do you mean that your ideology is different and you want people to stop calling you that?

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You have a choice between 1) capitalism that's free for all, fuck the earth, fuck the workers, fuck the consumer, disband the EPA, OSHA, FTC, or 2) capitalism that's regulated, with environmental protection, worker protections, minimum wages, workplace standards, product regulations, etc. The choice should be obvious.

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[-] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago

Not that meme is wrong, but the account that posted that comment is 3 days old and is clearly a troll.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

There are a bunch of regular posters here that think the exact same way.

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

I mean as if these people aren't all just trolls to some extent.

It takes either great malice, great idiocy, or a great and terrible combination of the two to be a supporter of this shit.

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[-] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

powerful "leopards eating faces" energy from the tankies. I wish them luck with the anti-communist death squads outlined in project 2025

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

They're Tankies, their entire ideology is feline face eating based. Russia SO KNOWN for how well it treats minorities and LGBT people!

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[-] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Has anyone else noticed that a shit ton of .ml bots have been very active here over the last day or so? These accounts aren’t new. But they also haven’t been active in these communities.

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[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

I mean, you can even see them self-identifying as tankies in this very thread. But okay.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Is "Tankies" a new term? I've never heard it before a week or two ago.

[-] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

It's decades old. Refers to people who support communist regimes regardless of what they do. Originally because the Soviet Union used tanks to quell rebellion and some people in the west still cheered for them.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

I believe it was coined by the British left when the USSR quashed the Hungarian revolution by driving tanks through their streets. Anyone still in support of them is deemed a "tankie." Nowadays it was meant to criticize authoritarian communists.

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[-] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Tankies, famous for their... opposition to genocide?

Also, is "Everyone I disagree with is a Tankie" the mid-Left's new "Everyone I disagree with is a Nazi?"

[-] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago

If Tankies oppose genocide, they have a funny way of showing it with their support of the CCP.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

And of the candidate who almost certainly will bring some degree of Genocide to the US while also intensifying it in Ukraine and Gaza.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

No, they are perfectly okay with genocide. As long as Papa Putin and and Winnie the Pooh Bear the ones doing it.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

You literally just quoted a kvetch the fascists came up with to deflect accusations that they're fascists by appealing to centrist sensibilities about keeping debates open.

You of all people should frankly be fucking ashamed to be openly using Nazi rhetoric to try and defend the indefensible.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Also, is “Everyone I disagree with is a Tankie” the mid-Left’s new “Everyone I disagree with is a Nazi?”

I mean, it's not like there aren't Tankies. Surely if you've run across them if you've been on Lemmy over a year.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Try again ppboy.

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