on the other hand, not all communists support authoritarian communism, and what does that actually even mean, etc.

you started this claiming piefed's intended exclusion of 'tankies' wasn't anti-communist. my point is simply that what matters if a given communist is to get called 'tankie' or not is how willing they are to toe the line against americas enemies.

the US is authoritarian, it has been the hegemon and projects that domination around the world, choosing to have more ire for it than its enemies gets you labeled 'tankie'. i can only conclude that the desire to exclude tankies stems from a desire to censor critics of us imperialism.

Liberals == actual Nazis, simple as. No nuance needed.

i said that they're fascists because while in power the party materially, directly supported a genocidal ethnostate. if you're not shouting from the rafters that it needs to stop, but are instead browbeating people to uncritically support them and silencing and berating people critical of them, then you're part of that.

i mean any given liberal could simply stop supporting the ethnostate doing a genocide and you wouldn't get called a fascist, but that would require some ability for introspection