• barsquid@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    People get called that when they’re pretending to be far left while urging everyone to take the exact actions the Repubs want them to take.

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        10 months ago

        Tankie is the pro-authoritarian left. The Stalinists essentially. The ones who think it’s appropriate to send in the tanks to quell a socialist or communist uprising because it has a tint of democracy in it, which may cause their strong leader to lose dictatorial power.

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          10 months ago

          Funny thing is, in all my life I’ve never met anyone on the left that was pro authoritarian. Seems like a made up faux news boogeyman

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            10 months ago

            It depends on whether you consider PRC and Stalin “left.” There are plenty of their supporters out on the internet.

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        10 months ago

        that would be people who are essentially voting for trump, so yeah, why not.