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This is just a meme designed to divide people who share common interests in opposing corruption and to turn them against each other instead.
this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2025
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This is a common misconception, but leftists and liberals do not share interests. Liberals are reactionaries who wish to return to a previous status quo they enjoyed, same as conservatives, but they disagree about what point to return to.
Leftists seek to move forward and dismantle capitalism. Liberals would rather (and often do) ally with conservatives to defeat leftist goals, because they know no society enjoying the fruits of post-capitalism would wish to return to the Obama era.
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People criticize the dems because they hope the dems might listen.
We need a way to have our voices heard if you don't want us shouting and protesting.
To reduce infighting amongst the democrats, create official avenues for grievances and disagreements to be settled that can actually influence party platform and trajectory without tearing the movement apart.
Use the settling of our varied perspectives to bind us so that our unsettled disagreements don't tear us apart.
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Oh no dems are not perfect let's Satan/Hitler win to teach them a lesson!
Like bruh try won't learn but let's get rid of Satan/Hitler first. And ill be first to turn on them.
If you're willing to sacrifice one minority group to Satan, why should members of other minority groups not believe they are next?
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If so many people refused to vote for Democrats because they were too far right, then the Dems should have moved left. If Leftists are too small a group to matter and the Dems are right to court the right then stop complaining when Leftists don't vote for you. You can't have it both ways.
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tell me you don't actually talk to "tankies" without telling me you don't actually talk to "tankies".
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Im an european socialist and thought tankies were a degoratory term for authoritarian communists. I did not think the few commies in the states mattered that much in your public debate. Or am misunderstanding everything about the meme?
Democrats are now so rabidly pro-war, they accuse anyone criticizing the defense industry or forever wars of being tankies.
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Anyone that uses the term "Tankie" unironically to refer to people to the left of them and the Democratic party are not a part of the left.
It's always helpful to identify the liberals that are getting "scratched" though.
It's the good old Red Scare but using the word "tankie" instead of "commie" and the people doing it now are just as devoid of ethics and hard right as the Macarthists were.
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It's a self report on the level of people who use dog whistles so loud they are foghorns. Just a word or two in the right context and you know you can ignore everything else you've read by them in the last 30 seconds.
Tankie is when they correlate the industrial growth of USSR as success when every other nation transitioning into a bourgeoise republic had similar growth
Tankie is when they pick and choose traits of Stalin and refuse the facts of his authoritarianism
Tankie is when they ignore the lack of progress in communism in USSR after Lenin died
Tankie is when they make excuses for the failures of USSR by pining them all in the west
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Republicans are going to republican. Democrats at least have the pretense of representing their constituents interests.
It's like if an oil tanker that takes ten miles to stop was bearing down on a small passenger ferry. Sure it might be the fault of the tanker's crew but they can't stop and they won't stop. The democrats driving the ferry have the capacity to easily save everyone on board and simply refuse to do so. That's why people shout at them.
Yes it was the "slight corruption" that "tankies" are criticizing Dems for. Give me a break.
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Americans are children who get abused by both parents but they think Mom is better because she hits them less.
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Republicans have no enemies on the right. Democrats have no friends on the left
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Seems to be a lot of talk here about authoritarianism.
Is demanding responsible speech over free speech absolutism "tankie"? ....because the US is demonstrating exactly what happens when you give free speech to fascists and don't monitor their "religion".
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