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I'm pretty sure they mean "tankies", who often claim to be leftists.
In Germany, we now have a party that is considered both extreme right and extreme left.
Edit: Now that I think about it, nationalistic socialists ring a bell
Nazis were not left ever. That's a myth. They use the trappings of leftism, but never did anything leftist. They also attacked the real socialists. They were authoritarian-right.
That's correct
National socialism is more nationalism than socialism.
Hitler joined the party and was kind of stuck with the name.
Sounds like nazis, not nationalists.
I have never seen someone claim to be leftist while defending Russia. OP made this up.
I don't believe you.
Neat.
OP isn't making it up, but they constantly make or repost memes about tankies and are seemingly blowing it out of proportion, as I mentioned in another thread (and was down voted) people are throwing it around way too much on lemmy.
See all the top level comments like "all the tankies coming out of the wood work! Must have struck a nerve!" when in reality there are legit arguments to be had around these things, but no, question Biden or the DNC and you're clearly just a tankie on russia/china/whatever payroll. Doesn't matter if it's a valid point of concern or strategy, fall in line or you're the enemy. Literally.
"Biden should be doing more to pressure Isreal to stop murdering innocents" TANKIE!! YOU'RE LITERALLY VOTING FOR TRUMP!!
DNC should just be able to dictate elections because they clearly didn't learn their lesson with Hillary and led directly to a Trump presidency, but no it's the left and "Bernie Bros" who were wrong.