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[-] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago

You're right about a term being misapplied, but you have it in reverse. The post is misapplying the word "leftist", instead of using the word "tankie". It's not a mask off moment, because it's not revealing a hidden truth. So the real question is: are you stupid or just dishonest?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

They were thinking of leftists when they decided to go bashing, hence their mix-up.

[-] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

For that to be true, they'd need to have observed a large contingent of leftists arguing that it'd be better for people to vote third party instead of for Biden. But what they've been seeing are tankies, who aren't leftists. You're mixing the word with the concept.

If I look at 🌸 and think "bird" and say "I love when birds fall from trees" I'm not saying that a 🐦 falling down dead is a thing that brings me joy.

But then again, maybe I shouldn't expect you to understand, since you lot have trouble figuring out the difference between a word and the thing the word means. It's a standard error of definitions.

Edit: to further the point, even if we consider the set we call "Leftists" to include what I call "tankies" there's nothing wrong with the meme, because they's criticizing a particular group doing a particular thing and I agree with the criticism. It doesn't matter what words they uses because I agree with the base concepts they's trying to convey. And that's the part that matters. Fuck your word games.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

What word games? You're the one arguing that "leftists" in this comic actually means tankies and then you go back on that and say actually it is about leftists but the bad leftists and it's not generalizing so it's fine. You have no point other than to defend the bashing of leftists, it seems.

[-] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago

I can see my point about being unable to separate the concept from the word used to designate it holds true.

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