• ATGM 🚀@beehaw.org
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          And Stalinist, Maoists, and other authoritarian Communists.

          Usually they also “love” countries like North Korea, China, and for whatever reason (aNtI iMpErIaLiSm), Syria, Russia, and so on.

          Red Fascists. They use the same tactics of gas lighting and goal post shifting.

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        So, people who love North Korea, or defend russia invading Ukraine, people, who stand by even the most autoritarian, anti-democratic, militaristic, imperialistic regimes - just because they call themselves “socialist” or “communist” - are “Tankies”.

        Would be good to point out these people you are mentioning are not all the same.

        There are people that Are critical of Russia, but don’t buy from western propaganda and are being called tankies too.

        It is more like, if one dare to question the western narrative = tankie.

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          but don’t buy from western propaganda

          i.e. are critical of russia, but stand by even the most autoritarian, anti-democratic, militaristic, imperialistic regimes - just because they call themselves “socialist” or “communist”, except for russias invasion of ukraine

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      It’s the prog-lib equivalent of woke. It’s used dismiss leftists with out engaging with our arguments. The term has lite ideological or argumentative use.

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        Libs use it that way, actual leftists use it to describe fascists that think they’re on the left and like red flags.