Can you show an example of people calling Mamdani supporters tankies please?
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porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 2 weeks agoYou 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.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Can’t, because it didn’t happen.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Sorry, I don’t save links to random stupid internet comments
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You should probably start doing that if you’re going to use them as core components of your online arguments.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Nah lol
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.
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
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
“If they don’t lick bolshevik boots, they’re a fascist” -average tankie
Zombie@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Great logic. Almost as if you’re speaking shite, unless anarchists are on the right now…
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
No, I’m just accusing them of throwing around words that mean nothing
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Kinda like how tankies think everyone is a fascist (except for other tankies, of course)?