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[–] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 0 points 1 month ago

Its become the boomer equivalent of calling everything bad communist.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Whoever taught liberals that word, I hope they have diarrhea forever.

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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (20 children)
  • and they both punch left; exactly as conservatives like to do.
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[–] Plaidboy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The conversation around "tankies" reminds me heavily of "neolibs" - loosely defined in the minds of the folks discussing them. Basically a catch-all term for your own idea of what a liberal outgroup should be.

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Truly. Any moderate support for AES? Immediately labeled a tankie, I've seen Anarchists and even Liberals labeled a tankie. The term only exists to punch left from the Liberal POV, just like "Woke" is used to punch anything left of fascism.

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[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I dunno, I perceive it more as a letft wing term for left-extremist fascists

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Communism and Fascism are entirely different, and purely antagonistic. I suggest reading Blackshirts and Reds.

[–] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fascism is also antagonistic to other fascism once it served it's purpose. See a good chunk of the night of long knives.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

That doesn't mean the target of fascism is fascism, though, so I'm not sure what that adds. In the Night of Long Knives, the Nazis purged the millitant labor organizers that they had used to purge the Communists beforehand, as these right-wing labor organizers were beginning to take on a leftward character and served to risk the overall Nazi movement. They were used like tools and discarded as such.

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[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Posting in a thread that will have 300 comments and 20 visible on hexbear

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

.ml is the best instance because you get to see the comments from all other instances

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (5 children)

That also makes it a very draining instance where there is constant skirmishing, but the plus side is that it's a good frontier to try to push Leftist ideals for other instances to see.

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[–] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Probably for the best, because if you click through to the .ml version you get worlders saying things like

I dunno, I perceive it more as a letft wing term for left-extremist fascists

Words mean nothing to these people lmao

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago

It's a very silly place here.

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