• @Madison420
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    63 months ago

    They are not lefties what are you even talking about. They’re both white conservative christofascists.

    I’m not sure if you’re just using tankie as a general pejorative or what but it specifically means authoritarian left.

    • @MeaanBeaan
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      13 months ago

      I think it’s fine considering he specified conservative christian tankie. Like they’re the conservative version of pro-authoritarian.

      • @[email protected]
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        43 months ago

        It’s called a fascist, and it’s fucking weird and suspect that’d you’d try to push anything else.

      • @Madison420
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        23 months ago

        I don’t think so man, words have power in their meaning.

    • @[email protected]
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      -93 months ago

      “Tankie” started as a general pejorative shorthand for “in the tank.”

      MAGAs are tankies. Evangelicals are tankies. Every extremist is a tankie.

      It’s just we generally only see the communist authoritarian tankies on here.

      • @Madison420
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        93 months ago

        That may be what you mean, that isn’t what everyone else means.

      • @Bertuccio
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        53 months ago

        That is such an obviously bullshit etymology that I’m going to accuse you of making it up to intentionally muddy the water.

        • @[email protected]
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          23 months ago

          I was wrong in that it has been used to describe right wing extremists but it does originate with the idea that these people would happily hop in a tank and crush any dissent. I realize I was very vague

          In my mind, it made sense that anyone willing to use force (eg, a tank) to impose their violent ideology is a tankie.