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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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Fringe right and fringe left both make this conversation difficult (lemmy.myserv.one)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/tankiejerk

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An 8-panel Phoebe Teaching Joey meme.

The first panel is Phoebe from Friends saying "Russia".

The second panel is Joey from the same show replying with "Russia".

The third panel is Phoebe saying "has invaded".

The fourth panel is Joey repeating back "has invaded".

The fifth panel is Phoebe saying "Ukraine".

The sixth panel is Joey repeating back "Ukraine".

The seventh panel is Phoebe saying the completed phrase "Russia has invaded Ukraine".

The final panel shows Joey proudly proclaiming "NATO just started a proxy war".

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm with you on this one. I kinda always thought Marx's and Engel's point was:

Capitalism is the stepping stone from feudalism to something far better.

I don't think they had in mind that the next step after capitalism would be going back to despotism. Like you said, these people lost the plot.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

George Orwell's Animal Farm captures it perfectly. Everything is going (mostly) great until the Pigs take over and become despots.

"All Animals Are Equal but Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others"

[–] Dkarma 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The pigs telegraph every move before they actually change the rules. When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time is a core lesson of the book.

Also if you see the writing in the wall get out early like snowball or you'll end up at the glue factory.

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

The politicians have been doing that too.

[–] Iron_Lynx 8 points 1 year ago

Capitalism is the stepping stone from feudalism to something far better.

And if you let capitalism keep on going while doing nothing to stop, curb or circumvent it, you'll end up back at feudalism, except with CEO's & middle managers instead of kings & lords.