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[+] -20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (18 children)

"Tankie" is just a derogatory term for anyone to the left of the person saying it

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (12 children)

    You guys are easy to spot these days.

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  • [+] -8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (11 children)

    You can see from the very question that poster asked that, whatever clear definition about authoritarianism or whatever you think it has, that's just not how people are actually using it. Centrists will use it for Mamdani supporters, DSA-types will use it for Marxist-Leninists, and anarchists will use it for almost literally anyone.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Can you show an example of people calling Mamdani supporters tankies please?

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  • [–] -3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Sorry, I don't save links to random stupid internet comments

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    "Tankie" is just a derogatory term for anyone to the left of the person saying it


    anarchists will use it for almost literally anyone

    Great logic. Almost as if you're speaking shite, unless anarchists are on the right now...

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    No one calls Mamdani a tankie, but I have seen tankies calling Mamdani a fascist. They clearly don't know what fascism is.

    Centrists also don't use the term "tankie." If anything they call everyone on the left a socialist (as if it's a bad thing) or a communist or a radical leftist.

    "Tankie" is specifically a word people on the left use to refer to auth-comms.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    Not even a little bit, but typical tankie rhetoric is to call anyone who isn't at least as far to the left as them (read: approaching infinity) a fascist, so I'm not surprised to hear this from an .ml account

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