this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2023
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Dunking on Tankies from a leftist perspective.
A tankie is someone who defends/supports authoritarian or even totalitarian regimes who call themselves "socialist". The term originated from people supporting the 1956 invasion of Hungary by the Soviet Union. Nowadays they are just terminally online, denying genocides, and falling for totalitarian propaganda and calling such regimes "true democracies". remember to censor usernames when necessary.
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Too articulated to be real. If this were written like a Trump tweet* it would be more realistic. *more: SAD! ALL CAPS! misspelings and run on rambling
idk, tankies are generally pretty capable of being verbose. I wouldn't count it out.
For real, every time they post something it feels like they're trying to hit a word count for a paper they are over-due for.
It's like they pull up ChatCCP at 11:38pm the night it's due and tell it to write them a 2000-word essay about "how the didactic materialism of imperial hegemony irrevocably leads to bourgeois exploitation of the Global South".
It's posturing, generally. Like Jordan Peterson fans. "Verbosity = intelligence = correct". They so very desperately want to be taken seriously.
Or like listening to a corporate executive's speech, where they twist themselves in knots to use all the current buzzwords. "Dialectical analysis," check. "Progressive role," check. "Material conditions," check. "Critical support," check. "Something something Nazis," check.
Talkies yes, redneck trailer trash not so much...