Political Memes

It's the good old Red Scare but using the word "tankie" instead of "commie" and the people doing it now are just as devoid of ethics and hard right as the Macarthists were.

Tankie is when they correlate the industrial growth of USSR as success when every other nation transitioning into a bourgeoise republic had similar growth

Tankie is when they pick and choose traits of Stalin and refuse the facts of his authoritarianism

Tankie is when they ignore the lack of progress in communism in USSR after Lenin died

Tankie is when they make excuses for the failures of USSR by pining them all in the west

It's a self report on the level of people who use dog whistles so loud they are foghorns. Just a word or two in the right context and you know you can ignore everything else you've read by them in the last 30 seconds.

Tankies aren't to the left of anyone. They're a parody of the left that ultimately believe in right-wing authoritarianism in a slightly different hat. Leftist authoritarian is an oxymoron.

Its like how they never go after the war crimes of the last guy, it would open themselves to be prosecuted for their own war crimes.

Why call out the bad things Trump does when you can court the mythical unicorn of "the disillusioned Republican" who is somehow not a total Fox News-brainwashed racist dipshit. Calling him and his supporters would would hurt a possible ex-Trump voter. All 4 of them.

i didnt know about Lemmy but i found hexbear first, and most of the stuff there was about how much they hate liberals and love Stalin. Several domains about dunking on liberals. For every emote like frothingfash theres twenty about liberal figures they hate as well as one or two about their favorite communist-backed mass killing.

i am in no way a fan of mainstream liberal politics or big D Democrats. much of the political media I consume is deeply critical of Democrats and their strategies, but is also capable of doing the same to conservatives and the GOP. Lemmy ml and hexbear don't even appear to attempt to pretend about fighting conservative politics outside of vaguely actionable physical threats, meanwhile the 2024 presidential election was won by threadbare percentage points due to barely anyone actually voting. i understand not wanting to vote for Democrats considering their bad policies and genocide supporting, but there is such a thing as harm reduction, and now all the people who pushed people to not vote for Democrats are getting shipped off to blacksites by the Republicans. Can I say for certain that tankies and the like helped get Trump elected, either by accident or on purpose? No. But you certainly didn't help him NOT win!