The Republicans Should've Faced Way More Criticism During The 2024 Presidential Campaign

.world definitely has a problem distinguishing between Tankies and leftists. I've literally had a guy argue with me that tankie and Bernie Bro were interchangeable because, "definitions change."

Well I love Bernie. When he told me he wasn't running in 2024, and he wanted me to support Kamala, I listened. And I've never been called a tankie. Maybe it comes down to individual differences.
- I also voted for Kamala and I also haven't been called a tankie (at least yet). But I've seen multiple liberals on .world call leftists tankies, often without understanding the meaning. At first, I found it very strange, since I'd only ever seen that term used in leftist circles. It made more sense when I realized they picked it up from .ml, which, to be fair, had a lot of fucking tankies.
  
  Ohhh, so it's the tankies who are responsible for this. That makes sense.
  
  That reminds me of how Israel tells everyone that killing people is part of the Jewish identity, and then complains when people believe them
- You're a tankie, you voted for someone who sent tanks to a genocidal regime, that makes you a tankie.
  
  Now you can't say you've never been called a tankie.
  
  I've only ever been called a tankie by a tankie who was making some kind of point
  
  But you have been called a tankie
  
  Which is pretty suspicious honestly

I was once called a tankie just for critiquing the fact that Kamala didn't clearify her positions on her campaign website, even though I voted for her anyway the fact that I didn't show unquestioning loyalty to the party makes me a tankie... Wait a minute... Demanding unquestioning loyalty to the party... Where have I heard that before?

Don't you, like, run a hate community targeted at her?
- No, I run a left wing community thats explicitly left wing in nature. Liberalism is right wing, so naturally we arent supportive. Furthermore my community tends to lean more libertarian left (workers democracy) and anarchist so we arent a big fan of liberal electoralism.
  
  Wow, I wish I didn't care who the president was. I wanna stop fearing for my girlfriends' lives.
  
  Yeah, fearing for the life of loved ones should only be for Palestinians, right?
  
  I want as few Palestinians to fear for their lives as possible. I wish Trump hadn't won the election and promised to turn Gaza into a US colony. Now it's only going to get worse. I wish we were fighting Kamala to make things better. She's easier to pressure. Now we're stuck fighting Trump to make things worse slower.
  
  I wish Trump hadn’t won the election and promised to turn Gaza into a US colony. Now it’s only going to get worse.
  
  See? Here's the problem, the Democrats were doing the exact same thing to Gaza, but you were a denialist when it was your team doing it. At least under Trump you actually acknowledge what's happening (even if you still deny what was happening under the Democrats)
  
  I wish we were fighting Kamala to make things better. She’s easier to pressure.
  
  Receipts? Because over a year of pressure didn't get the Democrats to budge even one inch, and for the entirety of that time the "vote blue no matter who" crowd actively opposed that pressure while also engaging in denialism to defend the Democrats.
  
  AIPAC had to spend 100s of millions to get Israel friendly democrats elected instead because they were scared the decent democrats would win the races and stop supporting genocide thanks to all the protesting people were doing.
  
  Yeah, and it worked. The Democratic party remains dominated by hardcore ideological Zionists who didn't move one inch in response to pressure, even if it cost them the election.
  
  You're missing the point, if it didn't work the zionists wouldn't had to spend so much money to affect an election in their favour.
  
  Citizen's united, first-past-the-post and the relentless attacks on the objectively better candidate really screwed people over during the election. Donald Trump is way worse on Palestine and on every other issue.
  
  Receipts?
  
  When Kamala was VP, pro-palestine protesters in the US didn't get disappeared by the secret police.
  
  No, just beaten and arrested by regular police.
  
  But that's entirely besides the point because it doesn't change the fact that over a year of pressure couldn't move the Democrats even an inch.
  
  I wish we were fighting Kamala to make things better. She’s easier to pressure.
  
  But every time us pro-palestinian people tried to put pressure on Kamala we were called tankies. Are you a tankie?
  
  Yup, at least with the democrats you can protest without being kidnapped into a van on the way to El Salvador.
  
  It's amazing how blueMAGA libs are incapable of talking about the Palestinian genocide in terms of actual Palestinian people. They can only think about it in terms of how it will affect Americans. 2,500,000 people being exterminated is forgivable, so long as the impotent domestic protests are being brutalized in the proper way.
  
  electoralism.
  
  Refusing to vote is how you end up with the worst arrogant politicians who dont care at all about their constituents.
  
  Once again I still voted for Kamala, however that doesn't disqualify me from critiquing underlying electoral systems. Fundamentally I belive Liberal Democracy is little more than democracy for the capitalist class.

I’ve never been called a tankie

we’re all communists.

I've got bad news for you...

That’s because nobody is called “tankie” in real life. No one has called me a “tankie” either. The term’s contemporary usage is a creature of social media. It’s a dumb, cringey online meme.

Hmmmmmmmmmm... nah. It's from the 1950s. They didn't have 9gag back then
- Again:
  
  The term’s contemporary usage
  
  But also: JFK Files Reveal CIA Role in the 1956 Hungarian Uprising | The tankies were right
  
  The Hungarian Freedom Fighters were [Central Intelligence] Agency sponsored.
  
  So you're a tankie in real life?
  
  Have you stopped beating your wife?
  
  Ask a dozen people what “tankie” means and you’ll get a dozen conflicting answers. It’s a floating signifier for dismissing those to one’s political left. It’s a thought-terminating cliché rhetorical device.
  
  And none of those dozen answers will correspond to how any of them actually use the word
  
  Tankies dont say slava ukranini!
  
  Of course not: it’s a slogan that came directly from the fascist Banderites. Why would communists, who have shed more blood fighting fascists than anyone, adopt a fascist slogan?
  
  Jacobin, 2015: Who Was Stepan Bandera?
  
  What's a ukranini? Like a Ukrainian panini?
  
  Also I want peace and prosperity for all people of Ukraine and I've been called a tankie lots of times
  
  Russia needs to completely pull out of Ukraine then you will have peace.
  
  I want peace and prosperity for all Ukrainians.
  
  You want to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian
  
  We are not the same
  
  The ukranians are fighting to protect their country out of free will. Stop victim blaming, you should spend your energy telling Russia to knock it off.
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_conscription_crisis
  
  Hmmm so much free will going on here
  
  Slobber uranium

Isnt radical centrist an oxymoron?

~~oxy~~moron
Yeah, supporting workers and dictators at the same time is pretty oxymoronic. But it's perfectly balanced, as all things should be

I don't think you know what communism actually is.

You too, hun.