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[–] [email protected] 89 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Cant wait for Trump to call Biden a Tankie on live TV.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"No, no, I uh, I uh, uhhh, look fat, you're YOU are the Russian" biden-forgor

[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Here’s the deal, Jack: you call me a tankie, but listen—back in ’68, Prague, Hungary, all those places… tanks everywhere. Ten, twenty tanks in one city. You better believe it. I stood up against communism, and Mao! We stood up against it too, folks - many times, we beat the drum against…We had a victory over communism, just like my administration had a victory over…over, Social Security. My dad used to say… wait… Oh, right, victory. I cede my time.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (1 children)

sorry, I shouldn't have said that.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 4 months ago (4 children)

He would really enunciate the "E" at the end.

a-little-trolling tankeeeeeee

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

These Tankeees, folks. They are bad people. They want to cause infinite 9/11s on the West—can you believe that? But we won’t let Biden and his Tankeees cause infinite 9/11s on our beautiful country. Tankeee, that's what they call them

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

The only way to kill it for good.

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

A key part of Blue MAGA, one which this article doesn't highlight, which Newsweek is probably incapable of highlighting, is the belief that the United States can turn back the clock and return to a nostalgic, mythical golden age. This is the common foundation which MAGA and Blue MAGA are founded upon. A political outlook resembling the belief that a pile of ashes can be turned back into a tree.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 months ago

Also historically a key point of many fascist groups.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The "Blue MAGA" accusations have been aimed at those who have suggested they will still vote for Biden despite accusations he is too old or lacking cognitive ability to remain in office for a second term.

There's also no word of genocide or all the other shit

"We are like two days away from Blue MAGA arguing cognitive decline is a made up ailment invented by the New York Times."

That was like two days ago when blue MAGA called NYT "Russian disinformation" for suggesting he might have parkinson

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

Very well put!

[–] [email protected] 80 points 4 months ago (4 children)

It's so funny that radical centrism is a thing.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 4 months ago

It's all the suburbanites who've benefited from inflation, owners of inflating assets like homes and rental properties which in this monstrous aberration of a country literally represents tens of millions of people

Then you add their trust-fund maladjusted brats into the picture and suddenly this army of psycho centrists make sense

[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't know how they can't see their positions sliding to the right

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They don't care because it's the blues doing it. Hell they don't care if they go full right (see praising immigration and genocide) as long as it's a blue

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

lets look inside

dammit, its fascism again

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

"I'm BlueMAGA and proud of it, if that means standing up for democracy, stopping Trump, Project 2025, Agenda 47, MAGA and staying in the fight with the most legislatively successful president in modern American history: Mr. Joe Biden," the PAC posted.

Beyond parody. Sounds exactly like a MAGA chud but for brump

[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Most legislatively successful president in modern history?

Sam Seder also said recently that Biden is the best Dem president in living memory (low bar).

Where are these things coming from? Like, unironically, I want to know what they're referring to

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sam Seder also said recently that Biden is the best Dem president in living memory (low bar).

They are liberals and can only remember as far back as what they had for breakfast.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Taking this in good faith, it's possible Biden's genocide(s?) and other policies have led to fewer deaths than those of Obama and Clinton.

Biden: Palestine, Yemen, I assume some others I'm forgetting about, COVID domestically

Obama: Yemen, continued the US occupation of the middle east (but Biden was VP for those so feel like he probably has to get some credit)

Clinton: Bombing of Yugoslavia, Iraq (al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory), the crime bill domestically (but written by Biden soooo)

Even so, this is like comparing which Axis leader was the "best" during WWII. It doesn't matter and all of them deserve the wall.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

Can’t forget Ukraine deaths from forcing the war to be prolonged. That’s a lot of death.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Because it finally broke thru in the comments on reddit-logo politics threads about how much Biden bricked

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I was lurking over there just for the laughs. This almost makes up for libs learning the word "tankies"

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Now the liberals will learn "patsoc" or "magacom" in the next episode "The Neoliberal Empire Strikes Back!"

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)

patsoc

I want to change it to Pazi

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

Monkey paw curls, pazi catches on but it's the anarchists calling the tankies that because "tankie" no longer makes communists mad

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

Patsy is pretty close after that and fairly apt.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

Bricked Up Brandon, I call him

[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 months ago

Posting really is praxis!

[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 months ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago

The people calling others BlueMaga seem to be gaining traction too

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 months ago

Hahahahaha and they tried so hard for tankie to get adopted over the years

Sucks to suck

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I have to admit that I like BlueAnon much more.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago

They're two different things in my opinion. BlueMaga are the process nerds and horse race freaks.

BlueAnon are the ones saying that CNN tampered with Brandon's mic to make him seem old

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago

I like blue fash too

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Did blue maga originate on here/the old sub?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not sure. It's is possible, since we have been just about the only people that felt that way about democrats for the longest time. Also, we have brump

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Been around since at least(?) 2019 I think.

I want to say it started when liberals were sweeping Biden's sexual assault under the rug and tut-tutting people for mentioning the many horrid pieces of legislation he has been responsible for.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

: p

The way they killed #metoo almost literally over night visible-disgust

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The oldest reference to it should be discoverable via search, there's text archives of both forums for better or worse.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

First instance of Blue Maga or BlueMaga:

https://hexbear.net/comment/5995 26 July 2020 06:21:26 GMT
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Blue Maga

First instance of BlueAnon or Blue Anon:

https://hexbear.net/comment/72555 14 August 2020 01:14:29 GMT
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Blue MAGA, plus Russiagate is BlueAnon

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Someone searched for blue maga in 2007 via Google trends but that's not very helpful. The first occurrence I found online was on May 9th of 2020 in a tweet: https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1258930482554769408?lang=en

The second ever recorded instance of blue maga on Google (via https://www.oldestsearch.com/) was by none other than Bes D. Marx in August of 2020 https://x.com/BesDMarx/status/1299408351755988994

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Lol, i crossposted this to lemmy to see if it makes any libs mad, now we just need some politician to say tankie

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