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• porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You can see from the question that poster asked that, whatever clear definition about authoritarianism or whatever you think it has, that’s just not how people are actually using it. Centrists will use it for Mamdani supporters, DSA-types will use it for Marxist-Leninists, and anarchists will use it for almost literally anyone.

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  • Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “Tankie” is just a derogatory term for anyone to the left of the person saying it

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    anarchists will use it for almost literally anyone

    Great logic. Almost as if you’re speaking shite, unless anarchists are on the right now…

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    • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No, I’m just accusing them of throwing around words that mean nothing

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      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Kinda like how tankies think everyone is a fascist (except for other tankies, of course)?

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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Can you show an example of people calling Mamdani supporters tankies please?

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Can’t, because it didn’t happen.

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    • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sorry, I don’t save links to random stupid internet comments

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      • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You should probably start doing that if you’re going to use them as core components of your online arguments.

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  • VoteNixon2016@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    anarchists will use it for almost literally anyone

    I mean, yeah? Like the most basic understanding of anarchy is that hierarchy is a bad thing, so it applies to a lot of political philosophies

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  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No one calls Mamdani a tankie, but I have seen tankies calling Mamdani a fascist. They clearly don’t know what fascism is.

    Centrists also don’t use the term “tankie.” If anything they call everyone on the left a socialist (as if it’s a bad thing) or a communist or a radical leftist.

    “Tankie” is specifically a word people on the left use to refer to auth-comms.

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  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “If they don’t lick bolshevik boots, they’re a fascist” -average tankie

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