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What do you define as a tankie. (lemm.ee)
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/tankiejerk
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I know for a lot of people a tankie is just something that they know it when they see it, however I think that it is important to think about the reason that you define something as being tankie vs just a leftist.

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[–] FlyingSquid 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't disagree. I especially enjoy it when they start talking about how Stalin was a great leader. I've also seen "everyone sent to the Gulags deserved it" being bandied about lately.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The best one was definitely that time that a hexbear user joined in to lemm.ee's "do we defederate from hexbear?" thread to tell the admin that "your kulak great grandparents deserved it" apparently on the basis that he's Estonian and doesn’t like the Soviet Union

[–] FlyingSquid 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I got a better one than that one. I was told by one of them that Stalin put thousands of Jews in the gulags for the same reason Nazis put them in concentration camps (apparently deservedly both times)- "they were radical Marxists."

Like, WTF? Isn't that a good thing to you?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is the distinction being drawn between Marxist and Marxist-Leninist, or is "radical Marxism" referring to radicalism as in Jeremy Bentham? Or is there some third thing going on?

[–] FlyingSquid 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I decided not to delve into the topic because I can only stomach so much bigotry.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

That was probably a sensible decision