this post was submitted on 03 Sep 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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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lemmy is already like, 80% anti-capitalist.

I would say they're preaching to the choir here, but this is far more obnoxious than preaching.

[–] Estiar 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Bolshevists wanted to kill the Mensheviks, though they were both against the capitalists. It ain't all peace and kindness on the Left

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Left Unity until I say the revolution ends.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Ive seen dozens of hexbear and lemmygrad users post unironically that lefties that dont support Lenin and killing any and all capitalists also deserve to be murdered.