Tankies gonna ~~tank.~~ cry about literally anything.
LGBT Tankies: "No you don't understand, I'm one of the good ones, they'd never put me up against the wa-"
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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Tankies are literally just hipster-fascists.
They just going to pretend Imperialism didn't literally criminalise homosexuality everywhere it went?
All this mental gymnastics and somehow they end up at painting imperialism as significantly more progressive than it was (in the eyes of non-bigots of course).. 🤦♀️
Imperialism, to tankies, means the present state of things, not the colonialism of the 19th century.
You know it's true because they used lots of technical terms and big words. If you throw enough political terminology into a paragraph, it makes it the right viewpoint to have.
Why use few word when innumerable plethora of diction of the grandest order performs the task admirably?
It has to be the right terminology though. The Pavlovian bells to let tankies know what they should feel when they read it.
See this is what makes them different from those horrible alt right chuds, their trigger words sound fancier.
Totally different mentality, totally different people.
That explains why we didn’t get rights until we started throwing bricks at cops and our biggest political allies have always been the unions.
I'm seeing a strong $20 word trend in these posts.
I'm gonna call troll on this one. Too much crafted ragebait.
I hope so, but brain damage is very common amongst them.
Can someone translate that to English? It seems to have been generated by ChatGPT.
I also gave up, but then saw your request and had to go back and re-read it. You are responsible by the brain cells killed in that process. I hope you're happy.
They're saying that gay people are gay because they don't want to work to reproduce. And "imperialists" want to make other people work for them instead of doing work themself. So, if reproduction = labor, then gays are imperialists because they want other people to do that labor.
It's fucking stupid.
To be fair, I think this one is an actual nazi, not a tankie, given the downvotes and the username of "Finnish_nationalisti". Also it's been deleted.
So... who's going to tell them that there are gay animals?
so many contradictions in one paragraph, the logic is absurd
The top comment on that post is so close to understanding that their support of Russia is still support for an overtly cruel empire. “I don’t support Russia’s evil, just its terror. There’s a difference.” I wish I knew how to link to their post in a way that wouldn’t redirect everyone to lemmygrad, but here’s the link.
“I don’t support Russia’s evil, just its terror. There’s a difference.”
Imagine trying to apply ideological revolutionary terror to a kleptocratic capitalist state. Tankies are deluded beyond belief.
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