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I think the best evidence that "tankie" is a meaningless snarl word is the way the people who use it just make up what ever positions they like to ascribe to the mythical "tankie". Like, none of the people you call "tankies" support modern Russia, but you're going to insist that tankies support modern Russia anyway, because it's not meant to an actual descriptive word, just a way to punch left.
There are people in this thread that support Russia.
Or at least are busy telling people they're not actually that bad.
No there aren't.
Oooooooh here we go, watch that goal post sail away. How completely unsurprising that by "support Russia" you really meant "don't hate them enough".
Does it not bother you that you have to resort to this kind of wilful dishonesty?
Don't play dumb, it's the geopolitical version of "I'm not racist, but..."
People who know their views are reprehensible to most reasonable people, so aren't willing to outright say what they believe, but will still argue the point.
And if you press them hard enough, you almost always find out they somehow blame Ukraine for being invaded.
Yes, like what you did, when you lied about people supporting Russia when you just meant that they aren't as opposed to them as you think they should be.
They almost always support Russia, and I think you know that very well.
They never do, and you know that very well, thats why you were trying to slip in the redefinition to "not opposing Russia enough"
People who support russia and communism are tankies.
Communists aren't necessarily tankies.
Ok, good news then: there aren't any tankies on hexbear
I lurk on hexbear from time to time, and there is definetely people there who believe some of those.
Yeah, out of "supports Russia" and "are communist" there are indeed people who support some of those two things
If you support russia in this day and age, you are a tankie.
Ok. And none of them do
???
Yes? What is your confusion?
Who are you quoting?
You, but paraphrased.
Ok, so not me then. If you're just going to make up things I didn't say, what's the point?
ok, what did you mean then?
Can I reference you here when I get called a tankie despite not supporting Russia?
Thats not what I meant, there is other "criteria".
Yes, I've noticed that the "criteria" are extremely malleable and impossible to pin down. That's why I concluded that it's just a snarl word that ultimately means "anyone to the left of me"