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• SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You guys are easy to spot these days.

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  • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can see from the 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.

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    • Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “Tankie” is just a derogatory term for anyone to the left of the person saying it

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      anarchists will use it for almost literally anyone

      Great logic. Almost as if you’re speaking shite, unless anarchists are on the right now…

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      • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        No, I’m just accusing them of throwing around words that mean nothing

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    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Can you show an example of people calling Mamdani supporters tankies please?

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      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Can’t, because it didn’t happen.

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      • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Sorry, I don’t save links to random stupid internet comments

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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    • VoteNixon2016@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      anarchists will use it for almost literally anyone

      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

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “If they don’t lick bolshevik boots, they’re a fascist” -average tankie

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• WereHacker@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• Fokeu@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Exhibit A:

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• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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

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  • iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh, come on now, they’d never call Putin a fascist.

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh true, I forgot to add that they’ll complain about literally anyone except for actual fascists…

      There!

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