Made this in response to a meme saying that Tankie and Communist are the same thing.

Handshake meme of Conservatives and Tankies agreeing on disregarding every form of Communism other than Soviet
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[–] [S] 5 points 1 month ago

To be clear: they're not moving the goalposts, they're correcting a point of misunderstanding.

Moving the goalposts is when someone attempts to redefine a claim after the original claim was proven wrong. If you reread it, @ChicoSuave@lemmy.world's point from the beginning was a critique of modern-day Soviet apologists, not of the citizens, artists, activists, and workers of the Soviet Union.

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