a drawing of a person wearing a balaclava and holding a gun with the text "all my homies hate tankies" :3
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2025
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The thing is historically leftists ally with anarchists until they get power and then they execute the anarchists. They want unity as long as it's convenient for their agenda, but that's true of any philosophy that encourages power structures of any kind.
This.
Also, tankies are that not because they're communists (they're not, no matter how hard they insist) but because they support an oppressor on the same scale as the one they demand we unite with them to oppose, simply because said oppressor calls themselves communist (again, they're not), seemingly without understanding how that might make those of us opposed to all oppression mistrust them, and be unwilling to simply overlook their values and actions.
On the other hand, I always see people who use the term tankies calling everyone who the US propaganda says is an oppressor an oppressor. It's so weird how that works out that way, that the colonized countries trying to get self-determination are the oppressors, and the western colonial and imperialist countries are the only ones with "freedom". They eat the propaganda right up.
I think you mean liberals.
I'm an anarchist.
Fuck tankies (E: who do exactly what you're accusing others of doing to them - licking Chinese boot instead of American doesn't make one any better than the other)