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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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[–] alokir 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is surprisingly funny for satire, which I hope it is.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

One hopes, but the depths of mankind's stupidity never ceases to amaze...

[–] ZILtoid1991 2 points 7 months ago

I remind you that InfraHaz and his schtick exist. At least TheYankeeTankie is now an unironic fash.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean… unironicly, is this where horseshoe theory comes from?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Other way around - stethoscope theory was made in response to horseshoe theory.

[–] cmbabul 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Ryantific_theory 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's gotta be a prank, right? Right??

[–] cmbabul 24 points 1 year ago

I’m going to choose to believe that, my brain refuses to compute this as real without an aneurysm

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Too articulated to be real. If this were written like a Trump tweet* it would be more realistic. *more: SAD! ALL CAPS! misspelings and run on rambling

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

idk, tankies are generally pretty capable of being verbose. I wouldn't count it out.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

For real, every time they post something it feels like they're trying to hit a word count for a paper they are over-due for.

[–] Fried_out_Kombi 17 points 1 year ago

It's like they pull up ChatCCP at 11:38pm the night it's due and tell it to write them a 2000-word essay about "how the didactic materialism of imperial hegemony irrevocably leads to bourgeois exploitation of the Global South".

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

It's posturing, generally. Like Jordan Peterson fans. "Verbosity = intelligence = correct". They so very desperately want to be taken seriously.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Or like listening to a corporate executive's speech, where they twist themselves in knots to use all the current buzzwords. "Dialectical analysis," check. "Progressive role," check. "Material conditions," check. "Critical support," check. "Something something Nazis," check.

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

Talkies yes, redneck trailer trash not so much...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Poe's law says that it might not be, or some tankie will take it seriously.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Northern bankers

Why do I get the feeling he's using bankers to stand in for a different group...

[–] Gyrolemmy 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does the group rhyme with a state?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Gyrolemmy 10 points 1 year ago

Sorry it was Jew Hampshire....

[–] Roflmasterbigpimp 14 points 1 year ago
[–] Son_of_dad 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I blame this on Ulysses Grant. As a general and then as a president, Grant should have spat on Lee's face and decimated the south, not gone easy on them. The South and anyone with this poster's views should have been stamped out and executed

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Grant all but crushed the South, destroying the first KKK and implementing the first anti-segregation laws. It's after Grant's presidency things went downhill.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Sherman? We have a task for you.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

It’s always the “bAnKErs” at least he got the anti-semitism part of tankie-ism right