I would be down to join this c/ and contribute, but every time I read the word “Tankie” I think it’s reductive and meaningless. Much like when they say liberal.
Fuck Putin, fuck CCP, and fuck those authoritarian bootlickers. I just think the term Tankie is outdated and falls so flat.
Tankie pisses them off, which is why I use it.
What would you suggest instead?
I don’t know tbh. I know that it’s not helpful to make a critique and not offer an alternative . I guess I feel like it feels like when republicans call people snowlfakes, wokies, soyboys. And they do it for the same reason.
I think of them as:
Faux commie edgelords.
Desperate contrarians.
Putin apologists.
CCP bootlickers.
I think it really depends on the context.
Tankie is a political ideology, though. Don’t think soyboy is a political ideology.
Either way~ You can always make your own posts if you want! c:
In the context of modern history it’s really not. Tankie is meaningless because the states they defend aren’t even the same states that they were when Tankie as a term was coined.
Russia is right wing Christian authoritarian oligarchy. Ran by men who yacht around the French Riviera.
China is a authoritarian mega corporatocracy that sells its shares on Wall Street, and makes iPhones for the biggest American corporation.
Those people on that /c don’t have an ideology, aside from hating the west.
There are definitions and explanations of what tankies are on the sidebar.
🤔 How about redfash? Associate them with something they hate and is universally hated?
Tanktards also works. Exploit their weird hypocrisy with name-calling.
You’re thinking combining the word “retard” with tank is a good approach? We’re not going to do well.
Do they know how Stalin and present-day China treat the intellectually and learning disabled?
like dudes, you’re not really in a position to be pioneering autism recognition.
