I can’t believe you would all be this immature.

How do you expect to bring people to your side with this attitude?

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    5 days ago

    I’m not even a communist (well, I’m indistinguishable from one based on my posting here but in a more nuanced conversation there are some differences) and I get called a tankie. Anarchists get called tankies for calling for an end of the Zionist occupation of Palestine. Social Democrats get called tankies for wanting reduced military spending.

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      Not long after Russia rolled into Ukraine, Noam Chomsky, a guy that has called the collapse of the Soviet Union socialism’s greatest victory, released a statement putting the conflict in its proper historical context, and basically the whole of reddit started calling him a tankie lol.

      From that point on it was indisputable that the term has become literally meaningless.