this post was submitted on 05 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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The ability to exist between concepts and except the gray reality of the world seems to be a specialized skill on the Internet that mostly has you hated by both sides....
It's fucking awful how sided people are on topics that they don't even understand because they are massive complex worldly issues. Like most of things are but we really do suck at complex thought as a species.