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Tankies are just MAGA pretending to be communist

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is anyone still actually confused about the very obvious link between tankies and right wing trolls?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Their hatred of liberals.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I am.

I don't get it. Like at all.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

This should clear everything up:

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 1 points 2 months ago

The Left, the Center, the Right, and the Tankies are points on an unlabeled 2D space?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It took me a second to understand your picture, because for some reason, which I have just now realized, I always pictured the left on the right side of the drawn graph, and the right on the left. I have no idea why my mind drew the spectrum that way, but I had literally never questioned it until I saw your picture and thought it was backwards and realized I am the one who was backwards.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Might be because most cameras capture parliaments from behind, while left and right are from the perspective of the lectern.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Tankies are far-left