What do you think you said? Because I took that as questioning their existence as well.
What I didn’t say was “there is no such thing as tankies”. And what I implied, albeit subtlety, was that people bandy about this term so freely that it can really only be taken as “people I disagree with who might be leftist-ish”. The use of the term has morphed so much over many decades that it means essentially nothing… or, “whatever I say it means”.
It means: “Leftist” Who defends/supports regimes like Russia and China, and their use of Tanks to suppress thier opposition, hence the term.
LOL. Joe-bob over there thinks it means anyone who supports authoritarian & statist leftism but Sue-Ann thinks it means anybody who supports anti-Western states with a socialist history. Bubba and 8627of his friends just use it to mean, practically speaking, “leftists I think I disagree with but don’t really know because this is Lemmy and I never bothered to ask”.
Are these “tankies” in the room with you now?
This is Lemmy, so, yeah, pretty much all over.
“There’s no such thing as tankies” is the weirdest doublethink propaganda I’ve seen in a while.
Is that what you think I said? Interesting.
Doubling down, too. Fascinating.
Doubling down on what tho?
What do you think you said? Because I took that as questioning their existence as well.
What I didn’t say was “there is no such thing as tankies”. And what I implied, albeit subtlety, was that people bandy about this term so freely that it can really only be taken as “people I disagree with who might be leftist-ish”. The use of the term has morphed so much over many decades that it means essentially nothing… or, “whatever I say it means”.
It means: “Leftist” Who defends/supports regimes like Russia and China, and their use of Tanks to suppress thier opposition, hence the term.
It gets bandied about on Lemmy like crazy because theres a crazy amount of Tankies on Lemmy
LOL. Joe-bob over there thinks it means anyone who supports authoritarian & statist leftism but Sue-Ann thinks it means anybody who supports anti-Western states with a socialist history. Bubba and 8627of his friends just use it to mean, practically speaking, “leftists I think I disagree with but don’t really know because this is Lemmy and I never bothered to ask”.
Edit: or in other words, QED
The leftist fifth columnist menace is the single greatest threat to American freedom and liberty.
Sure grandpa, sure. Let’s get you to bed!
Not before I’ve finished posting to Facebook!