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Oh, the lion's share of the blame belongs to them, absolutely.
They influence voters, who influence US foreign policy. The increasing hostility on the left (or what passes for it in the US) is very much fueled by online left spaces where such fascist talking points are tolerated or celebrated. Communism isn't as unpopular as it was for my parents' and grandparents' generation, and with that broader shift comes the possibility (and reality) of radicalism and sheer edgy fucking stupidity getting ahold of a minority of those shifting. Approximately 30% of Gen Z (and 27% of my gen, Millennials) has a positive view of Marxism (which is great!). If we assume only 10% of them are dumb enough to buy into tankie talking points, that's still some 6 million people.
You ever see Tankies outside of Lemmy or old CTH on reddit? Because Ive been organizing since my 20s and met just one in real life. I would be flabbergasted if there were more than 1% of the figures you pointed out were tankies, let alone 10%. Also tankies don't believe in voting and are still dwarfed by other sources of misinformation. The tankies make themselves nice and loud, they're very easy to ignore. Unlike the types of propaganda that get injected into Meta platforms and Twitter. I still think you're swinging at ghosts because its easy to do.
Lets say tomorrow there are no more tankies, they magically never existed in the english speaking world, what actually changes for the US?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2018/04/04/only-two-thirds-of-american-millennials-believe-the-earth-is-round/?sh=e7dd4067ec66
Theres more flat earther Millennials than tankies by either estimation we use too. Can't wait for them to influence foreign policy.
they're taking over my local organizing scene.
same. I stopped being active in my trade union because my local's case officer has had his brain rotted by Grayzone and Dore etc, he harassed me for months with late night messages that "no Russia doesn't target civilians on purpose" "Bucha was maybe a Ukrainian false-flag", and publicly accused me of being a Nazi supporter for donating to a Ukrainian medical charity.
no help from the rest of the union because he always had plenty of fucking Glen Greenwald, David Sacks, etc tweets to "prove there are questions, he's just asking questions and unconvinced by NATO CIA affiliated narratives"
Tankies are poison.
I want everyone to get along, so I try to work with them, but it's hard sometimes because they seem more focused on building the party than doing the work