Do any of them know what the word “liberal” actually means?

    • @UnderpantsWeevil
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      102 months ago

      Authoritarian Communist

      I see this term used so often from the lofty reaches of some national news rag or echoing out of a Senate star chamber. The CEO is stamping it into an EULA, as an irrevocable term of service. The corporate union-buster is putting it up in 120 point font in a company wide mandatory power point presentation. The evangelical minister is denouncing it from the pulpit as part of a catechism call-and-response. The nosey neighbor is whispering it into the phone, hoping a SWAT team will remove someone from the block. The police holding you face down in a bucket of water are screaming it in your ears.

      Beware the authoritarian communist. Beware the tankies. Beware the Chinese / Russian / Venezuelan social terrorists, fifth columnists, and outside agitators. Beware the college kid in the Che Guevera t-shirt. Beware the Anti-American. Whatever you think we might be doing to you now, they’ll be ten times worse.

      • @Cryophilia
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        22 months ago

        It’s just a more politically correct way to say tankie.

        • @UnderpantsWeevil
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          32 months ago

          I’ve never heard a cop called a Tankie.

          But they’re always the ones in the large militant unions demanding more public money while driving around in actual tanks.

          • @Cryophilia
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            02 months ago

            To be fair, Chinese cops would probably be tankies.

            • @UnderpantsWeevil
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              02 months ago

              Few carry guns. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the Chinese police equivalent to the NYPD Police Tank that was used to raid the Columbia campus.

              • @Cryophilia
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                02 months ago

                Meaningless distinction. Whether it’s military or whatever. Whichever state supported group is shooting and beating and arresting protestors in China, they’re tankies.

                • @UnderpantsWeevil
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                  02 months ago

                  Whichever state supported group is shooting and beating and arresting protestors in China

                  I’m more concerned with the police lashing out at protesters closer to home

                  • @Cryophilia
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                    12 months ago

                    Cool but that’s not what I was talking about.

                • archomrade [he/him]
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                  -12 months ago

                  Whichever state supported group is shooting and beating and arresting protestors in China America, they’re tankies.

                  FTFY

                  • @Cryophilia
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                    02 months ago

                    Nah, American Yeehawdists like their freedumb.

                    Similar but related bastardry.

    • @Cryophilia
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      -72 months ago

      Usually because it’s a fascist doing the scratching, so the liberal punches him

        • @Cryophilia
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          -22 months ago

          Punching Nazis into dust since 1941. Commies too.

          You’re just salty because our superior ideology beat yours into dust (this applies if you’re an actual communist or just a right wing agitator pretending to be one).