Anyone to the left of Ronald Reagan
A blanket term to denigrate any leftist with Marxist ideas
Basically, gg once you say anything left of soc dem
"Pinko commie" for the 21st century
Hexbear eat Lemmy already. I want my fucking username back
Radlibs like to call themselves communists on occasion now or at least socialist and they want to distance themselves from communists
Leftist I dont like
The polite liberal version of saying anti-white
woke
It means I'm going to roll my eyes at you if you use the term in my org
Does you driver's license have an endorsement for this ? Then you're a tankie.
fuck tankies
Anyone with policy positons that aren't generally safe towards neoconservatism?
Tankie refers to Stalinists, like the original tankie who happened to be an arch-Stalinist - Khrushchev /s
In an etymological sense, the word jumped the shark a long time ago but now it's reaching new depths of meaninglessness that it really has become a floating signifier these days.
I think before the Russia/Ukraine war, it meant anyone who was to the left of democratic socialism and/or supported or even just critically supported AES states. Since the war it pretty much means anyone left of center who doesn’t lock NATO boot
Someone who drives a tank
It means you have enough gas for a round trip!
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stalin shouldn't have stopped at berlin
it just means pinko. it's an uncomplicatedly anti-communist epithet. some confused self-identified leftists still use it and they need to be gently corrected or else disregarded completely.
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