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Oh look... the liberals are at it again.
Your whataboutism doesn't change the fact that the west's claims of valuing "press freedom" turning out to be completely false posits severe implications for your ideology, liberal - not anyone's living in China.
You're not communicating your point very well. Do you mean like neoliberal liberal or like fox news liberals?
He's on lemmy. He def means "non-tankies"
“non-tankies”
Perhaps it's best not to use terms you don't understand, liberal.
😂 okay buddy.
Alright fuck it, I'll ask: what do you think tankie means?
And more-importantly, what did you actually mean? lol
Like the other guy said, authoritarian communists.
Or authoritarian communists pretending not to be. The type of people to come out and defend everything China and Russia do while decrying "the west" at every opportunity. Constantly at it with "what aboutisms" and other bad faith arguments. People who claim we should vote third party/not vote while pretending they want to make the US better through these actions, when really they just want the US to fail. Jackson Hinkle types or Infra Haz types.
If I recall correctly, tankies are named because tanks were used to put down protests in Czechoslovakia under the USSR and tankies will defend it.
Interesting. I looked at the urban dictionary definition, which was super helpful from a historical perspective (people that support sending in the tanks). But appreciate the straightforward answer. Thanks!
Not sure why people were offended by my comment. Maybe I could've worded the question better. It's weird if people expect others to know this super obscure shit no one ever really talks about anywhere else.
Oh yeah, I definitely thought you were the other guy when I was responding, who definitely seems like a tankie.
It's very simple. "Authoritarian Communists"
Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes or their allies.
The term "tankie" was originally used by dissident Marxist–Leninists to describe members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) who followed the party line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Specifically, it was used to distinguish party members who spoke out in defense of the Soviet use of tanks to crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the 1968 Prague Spring uprising, or who more broadly adhered to pro-Soviet positions.
Sorry, I must be the dumbest person who ever tried to be a leftist.
So the first guy criticized libs (seems like the answer is fox news type libs) and then I asked him to clarify and another person replied saying he means not-tankies (so leftists that aren't neolibs/or just communists maybe?). At that point the first guy replies saying he knows what tankie means and that the other guy actually doesn't. That's when I replied again.
Now it seems like you (and voters) are saying the guy that replied to me was in fact correct in his usage meaning she didn't guy's actually a tankienor maybe a conservative? I get lost there. Surely the first guy isn't an authoritarian communist. Like what? Someone help!
I just want to communicate with other political junkies and nerds that want to fight capitalism... someday, somebow.
neoliberal liberal or like fox news liberals?
Is there a functional difference?
Doesn't fox refer to anyone to the left of the American center as liberal? I'm not super versed but I was thinking it wouldn't make sense to call socialists, neoliberals, and communists all liberals and I def don't think fox is being that specific
Doesn’t fox refer to anyone to the left of the American center as liberal?
Yes, they do... but this doesn't change the fact that Fox itself peddles liberalism - ie, capitalism. That is, when it's not peddling outright fascism - liberalism's status quo-sustaining alter-ego.
I was thinking it wouldn’t make sense to call socialists
No, it doesn't make sense to call people such as socialists - who want to dismantle all aspects of liberalism (and with it, fascism) - "liberals."
China isn't a good country either. I don't get why your so excited to back people up who commit genocide.
Also is banning TikTok really preventing freedom of the press? They are beholden to the Chinese government and used to suppress talk about the Uighyur cultural genocide.
How about we instead replace it with something like Lemmy but for video?
China isn’t a good country either.
China never claimed to have a "free press."
Also is banning TikTok really preventing freedom of the press?
What (alleged) "freedom of the press"? This (supposed) "freedom of the press" is a cornerstone of liberal ideology - not whatever it is that China is doing.
Again... the realization that liberal ideology is full of holes (and always have been) has implications for liberals - not people living in the PRC.