• cm0002@lemmy.world
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      Nope, Tankie is very clearly defined as “Authoritarian Communists”

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

      Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof. More specifically, the term has been applied to those who express support for one-party Marxist–Leninist socialist republics, whether contemporary or historical. It is commonly used by anti-authoritarian leftists, including anarchists, libertarian socialists, left communists, democratic socialists, and reformists to criticise Leninism, although the term has seen increasing use by liberal and right‐wing factions as well.

    • Klear@sh.itjust.works
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      You know how nazis always complain that people call them nazis and that it’s losing any meaning?

      Yeah, same thing.

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        You know how Nazis always complain about woke stuff which does not exist in their life but they only read about?

        Yeah, same thing.

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      6 days ago

      That’s a dilemma, how to know if someone yelling everything they don’t like is lib & woke is either a maga or a tankie

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        Tankies don’t scream woke, they only scream lib. Hope that helps

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          They don’t scream woke but they still hate discussions about marginalized communities because they are all privileged white class reductionists.

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            But it makes sense once you think about it. The patriarchy is about ten or twenty times as old as capitalism (depending on the definition). Of cause it will disappear once capitalism is abolished. Racism is about twice as old as capitalism. How could it function without capitalism once again?
            But tbf hexbear does have a sizable trans community

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          It was more of a rhetorical question, no need to differentiate, synonyms and analogous terms can live in the same bucket