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"Tankie" is just a derogatory term for anyone to the left of the person saying it
You guys are easy to spot these days.
You can see from the very question that poster asked that, whatever clear definition about authoritarianism or whatever you think it has, that's just not how people are actually using it. Centrists will use it for Mamdani supporters, DSA-types will use it for Marxist-Leninists, and anarchists will use it for almost literally anyone.
Great logic. Almost as if you're speaking shite, unless anarchists are on the right now...
No, I'm just accusing them of throwing around words that mean nothing and thinking everyone is authoritarian. Just a little joke.
Kinda like how tankies think everyone is a fascist (except for other tankies, of course)?
Can you show an example of people calling Mamdani supporters tankies please?
Can't, because it didn't happen.
Sorry, I don't save links to random stupid internet comments
You should probably start doing that if you're going to use them as core components of your online arguments.
Nah lol
I mean, yeah? Like the most basic understanding of anarchy is that hierarchy is a bad thing, so it applies to a lot of political philosophies
No one calls Mamdani a tankie, but I have seen tankies calling Mamdani a fascist. They clearly don't know what fascism is.
Centrists also don't use the term "tankie." If anything they call everyone on the left a socialist (as if it's a bad thing) or a communist or a radical leftist.
"Tankie" is specifically a word people on the left use to refer to auth-comms.
"If they don't lick bolshevik boots, they're a fascist" -average tankie
Exhibit A:
I find it very interesting that you get downvotes for this comment. My experience is that this is the way most people use the term and they get so angry, when you point that out.
Not even a little bit, but typical tankie rhetoric is to call anyone who isn't at least as far to the left as them (read: approaching infinity) a fascist, so I'm not surprised to hear this from an .ml account
Oh, come on now, they'd never call Putin a fascist.
Oh true, I forgot to add that they'll complain about literally anyone except for actual fascists...
There!