Dunking on Tankies from a leftist perspective. A tankie is someone who
defends/supports authoritarian or even totalitarian regimes who call themselves
“socialist”. The term originated from people supporting the 1956 invasion of
Hungary by the Soviet Union. Nowadays they are just terminally online, denying
genocides, and falling for totalitarian propaganda and calling such regimes
“true democracies”.
"Totalitarian" and "authoritarian" do so much lifting in these arguments. People seem to think that these adjectives are only applicable to developing world countries and anywhere that isn't the West. Try going anywhere or staying alive in this society without money, and take a look at the policies you support - are they law? Try being queer or against the social grain of society, watch what meager rights you have evaporate.
There are still Black Panther survivors and AIM movement people in prison. And, like, let's get real - Everyone in jail for drugs is a political prisoner.
"Totalitarian" and "authoritarian" do so much lifting in these arguments.
afaik they don't mean anything. They're purely vibes based and usually thought terminating cliches. I don't think most of these people could name any non-authoritarian countries anywhere, or if they did they'd identify something absurd like the US or France or something. I have no idea what totalitarian is supposed to mean, I think it's just the Great Man view of history taken to an extreme. ie Stalin and his big spoon. Like the common use of the term is either purely vibes, or just absurdly naive.
"Totalitarian" and "authoritarian" do so much lifting in these arguments.
shoutout to the anti-Jewish journo Hannah Arendt who provided the ideological basis for woke radlibs to claim "(Stalinist) authoritarianism did the holocaust, we need more freedom for individual capitalists like our PMC comrade Eichmann, not less capitalism!!!"
You can make an argument that woke neoliberal "individual freedom" ideology exists to deny the holocaust
"Totalitarian" and "authoritarian" do so much lifting in these arguments. People seem to think that these adjectives are only applicable to developing world countries and anywhere that isn't the West. Try going anywhere or staying alive in this society without money, and take a look at the policies you support - are they law? Try being queer or against the social grain of society, watch what meager rights you have evaporate.
There are still Black Panther survivors and AIM movement people in prison. And, like, let's get real - Everyone in jail for drugs is a political prisoner.
afaik they don't mean anything. They're purely vibes based and usually thought terminating cliches. I don't think most of these people could name any non-authoritarian countries anywhere, or if they did they'd identify something absurd like the US or France or something. I have no idea what totalitarian is supposed to mean, I think it's just the Great Man view of history taken to an extreme. ie Stalin and his big spoon. Like the common use of the term is either purely vibes, or just absurdly naive.
Stalin big spoon you say?... 🥺👉👈
right? is there a government that isn't "authoritarian"? it wouldn't even make logical sense
Authoritarian means bad country and freedom means good country, that’s about it
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Alternately, anywhere their team isn't winning.
Texas? Authoritarian.
Florida? Totalitarian.
NYC? Aktuly everything is fine here.
California? Downright utopian.
Georgia? Divide By Zero! Does not compute!
Sterilizing black women prisoners, thanks Kamala!
If you're rich and connected, it kind of is.
San Francisco is a balmy 78 while Houston is 105 today.
shoutout to the anti-Jewish journo Hannah Arendt who provided the ideological basis for woke radlibs to claim "(Stalinist) authoritarianism did the holocaust, we need more freedom for individual capitalists like our PMC comrade Eichmann, not less capitalism!!!"
You can make an argument that woke neoliberal "individual freedom" ideology exists to deny the holocaust
Liberals dipping their toes in holocaust denial with their embrace of both-sidsing WWII