Political Memes

[reads post] Yep, I'm using it right.

What do all serious auths have in common? The plan to use mass murder, at some point or another, as a means to an end. Unironically, my favorite thing about Tankies is how they'll go from "communists aren't violent murderers actually" to "you'll get the bullet, too" in the span of two posts.

To clarify my position, I'm more closely aligned with anarcho-communists than any other serious political movement. I just think authoritarians of all stripes suck.

I've not used it for anyone who wasn't an authoritarian apologist, or who I meant to accuse of being an authoritarian apologist.

That's exactly what a tankie would say!

True, however equally true

I got called a tankie for complaining about the lack of regulations when that lead tainted applesauce story came out.

Calling someone a tankie is just scraping the bottom of the barrel. It's all they have.

Well this is gonna tee up a measured and rational discussion.

In the modern sense, it is used to describe communists who are authoritarian-apologists.

When I first wondered “wtf is a ‘tankie’?” I was lucky enough to find a source that defined the term in a similar way. Still, I appreciate the verification, and you’re right - it’s often used incorrectly.

Tankie: a Leftist that may self-identify as a Communist, or erroneously, a Socialist. Typified by their usage of a Hammer and Sickle or Joseph Stalin as their profile picture, these poor souls believe that the only way to achieve a Proletarian Revolution is to centralize power and control the flow of information similar to Stalin's Russia or modern day China. This includes the threat or actual use of violence on their own citizens in order to maintain their version of the status quo. The ownership of the means of production will be nationalized. 3rd party government oversight would not have even been thought of. Basically fascists but with a red coat of paint.

I was called a tankie 2 days ago. I'm an anarchist who occasionally is known to get gets into flame wars with the tankies...

I'm sorry sir have you considered going back to China and/or Russia?

Fat chance. Liberals' understanding of a term only extends to how useful it is to their political agenda (maintaining the status quo).

It's the same reason they mindlessly equate the term "radical" with extremism (usually the right-wing kind).

There is a simple rule to seperate tankies from the left;

if they call for nuking an entire hemisphere of the planet or openly call for genocide, that's a tankie.

Tankie has become a thought terminating cliche. Just call someone a tankie and any debate is over. You are correct and you can ignore any opinion that doesn't align with your own.