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[โ€“] oatscoop@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It doesn't help that the tankies are trying to push the idea that "Tankie is a slur against all communists/leftists!" The word "tankie" was invented by communists as an insult against those specific "communists" the cheer on brutal oppression of civilians -- particularly when those civilians are communists themselves.

The irony is tankies hate the "wrong kind of leftist" just as much as their other ideological enemies.