this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2023
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Dunking on Tankies from a leftist perspective.
A tankie is someone who defends/supports authoritarian or even totalitarian regimes who call themselves "socialist". The term originated from people supporting the 1956 invasion of Hungary by the Soviet Union. Nowadays they are just terminally online, denying genocides, and falling for totalitarian propaganda and calling such regimes "true democracies". remember to censor usernames when necessary.
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Is this the roaring twenties, from 100 years ago? Did the last 100 years not happen? Did hundreds of million of people suffer in vein and nothing was learned?
What was learned is that far right extremism is made palatable by calling it communism.
Amen