• @KillAllPoorPeople
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    211 year ago

    Why do all the 40 year old boomer Lemmy users call anything to the left of the most moderate Democrat “tankie”?

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      I do not see it using for leftists in general. Just the ones that for some reason support Russia and China

    • @[email protected]
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      Millennial, thank you very much. And, no, as an Anarchist I can definitely say that tankies are to the right of me. By like twenty parsecs.

      Also, this.

    • @Clbull
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      A bit like how anybody further right of Biden is often branded a Nazi by the left, regardless of whether their policies actually resemble Fascism.

      Politics has turned heavily toxic and partisan.

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        Moderates are still a large demographic in the US but completely unrepresented in the media and in government.

        Edit: so yeah I agree. I’m personally not likely to label a moderate a Nazi, but I’ll stay vigilant about it.