Worst part is this was posted by a Professional Redditor(tm) who has like 200k karma and posts on tankiejerk. Mfs can’t even realize when they’re getting astroturfed.
Libs get mad at tankies because tankies have a coherent and consistent ideology that draws on real-world material reality for its justification, which makes them difficult to argue with online. This probably also applies to other tendencies too, but apparently libs have an easier time with them, probably because they aren't directly challenging decades of US propaganda about AES states.
Putting aside the ideological incoherence of liberals, tankies have no power. They have no influence. The Chinese government isn’t even promoting communism overseas and neither is any other socialist government. No one gives a shit about tankies in the real world
I think that's kind of the point. If there's one thing liberals love, it's punching down, and who has less power than a couple basement dwellers on the internet?
For all intents and purposes, “tankieism” is no different than posadism. Just a bunch of terminally online nonsense. Just a bunch of children with free time on their hands pretending to be activists because it’s easy to fight a practically imaginary enemy than it is to fight a real one.
Was with you up until this. There are a decent amount of Marxists in the imperial core out there doing good work. We’re just not a conventional political threat, particularly with electoral politics.
Edit: did you mean the anti-tankies are children with free time?
pretending that annoying gzd users are an equivalent threat to nazis is tantamount to fascist apologia
I wish the genzedong kids were as powerful as modern fascists- in either regard.
They identify with the 3 arrows movement, which successfully stopped the fascists and WW2 never happened
This shit is 100% why I call myself a communist, not a socialist. If you call me a tankie I will say yeah I'm a tankie. I don't actually identify as a "tankie" because its a nonsense word detached from real political analysis. I just refuse to allow these people their stupid little own. Smug bullshit. What world can you win with smug bullshit?
It is as inevitable as the heat death of the universe. When that day comes I'll be saying "I'm a Marxist-Leninist" and they'll smugly say "oh so you mean a Stalinist?" and I'll say yeah, you're goddamned right.
Stalin wanted a liberal democracy with strong social spending, some gen theta kid in 2045
Sucks that all the post-millenial generations are named after frats.
In retrospect naming generations after letters and starting at the end of the alphabet was probably not the move
I remember seeing a video of a guy who calls himself a communist/marxist and he literally claims he doesn't need to read theory because he listens to Mike Duncan podcasts
Edit: his username is "thehistorywizard"
196 is literally full of children so it's kind of hard to be upset about this
This unending red-scare among western internet leftists is miserable and stupid. It's one thing for skeevy "online influencer" types to push it, but another for seemingly so many dipshits to take the bait.
If there weren't so many people out there primed for it already then there would be no grift for influencers to latch on to.
Without an account I can't view this. It does work, though if I use https://old.reddit.com/r/MoreTankie196/comments/u4n3c0/antidebate_bro_aktion/
"I can excuse genocide but I draw the line at universal healthcare!"
Tankie skinhead wearing a misspelled nazi band shirt (it's Skrewdriver, the original artist is cringe after too)
Dumb Reddit libs letting “tankies” live in their heads rent free when they have no political power in real life, at least in the western world.
They're acting like if enough "tankies" post, the collective psychic energy is going to raise Stalin from the Soviet necropolis he's buried in and he'll decimate the US and the west.
My favorite is when they start frothing at the mouth about tankies taking over the sub and flood it with posts several days of how they're taking a real stand and you're a genocide denier if you don't think China is literally Satan's army.
So bad when you realize they pasted over what said “kick nazis out of punk”
Yeah ok that's what I was thinking. What the fuck lmao. This is just Nazi shit then, not even libs. Just actual Nazi posting
So did the original meme say Nazis instead of tankies lmao
Seems really telling, if so, to cover that up for this shit.
Looks like it should say keep Nazis out of punk, which is a common slogan
Based on the skinhead's Screwdriver t-shirt, I think we can safely assume the original meme said "Nazi." And yeah, appropriating anti-Nazi slogans to slander tankies - the same people who literally stopped the Nazis - is grotesque.
Communism is an evil ideology. What r/196 wants is wholesome social democracy like they have in the enlightened homogenous Nordic countries :so-true:
Speaking of Nordic countries, just what was Finland up to in the 40s?
:joker-troll:
A glorious war to reclaim their rightful land the evil soviets took from them a year prior :so-true:
