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What is a TERF and what is a Tankie?
19 0 ReplyTerf: trans exclusionary radical feminist (self explanatory)
Tankie: left wing extremists and authoritarian apologists
32 0 Replytankies are actually right wing extremeists
31 0 ReplyLmao. Not the ones I very frequently come across.
22 0 ReplyLook at how much they care about worker enfranchisement in the totalitarian regimes they idolise.
They're just red fascists.
39 0 ReplyFascist =/= authoritarian.
People use the words interchangeably but they mean specific things. North Korea for example is authoritarian but not facist.
7 0 ReplyTankies tend to point to the USSR, China, and DPRK - I'd argue all of them fit Umberto Eco's widely used definition of fascism pretty well.
In this context, it's a distinction without a difference. What difference does this even make?
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I can’t address that because idk what they think about it.
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They use left wing populism to hide their authoritarianism (right wing). The literal Nazis did the exact same thing. We even see it in their names.
If you are simping for Putin/Russia or China, you don't care nor know what communism is.
12 0 ReplyTankies are 💯 right wing.
5 0 ReplyNo they aren't. Some shady fucking people here playing opposite day or something.
2 0 ReplyYour political ideology can use whatever leftist symbolism it wants to, but if the system you enact is an authoritarian, top down hierarchy that supresses the will of the masses in favor of a privileged elite, then you aren't on the Left.
Even Marx and Engels at their most statist wouldn't be in the same zipcode as Lenin et. al.
To be on the left means being for democracy from the bottom up and being agaisnt the concentration of money and power in the hands of a few.
1 0 ReplyIn the real world, authoritarians exist across the political spectrum.
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