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What is with the lemmy community's deep fear or tankies? (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/chat@hexbear.net
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There's dozens or harassment communities, if you say anything that's not pure, weapons grade condemnation of anything USSR or AES nuts accusations start getting levelled.

Internet communists have to be like the most irrelevant political bloc in the world. Even if you take the stance that everyone is hoping for a return of purges that's still just a completely irrelevant group. Most people I've seen being accused of tankyness is are more nuanced.

Wtf is going on. I thought it would settle down after the reddit migration faded.

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[–] 51 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

They want to have their cake and eat it too - they want to be seen as revolutionary leftists fighting the good fight, but they also want to maintain imperialism and their western chauvinist worldview. "Tankies" undermine their conception of themselves as good people by confronting them with the part of themselves that still wants to believe they're the master race.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago

    Western liberals like to put on a generic “anti-power” coat and don’t concern themselves with the actual business of running a country. Some dead slave owner said exercising power is inherently evil therefore China bad

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