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I think it's vagueness that irks me the most and that is why I ask everytime. Reactionaries always do this shit and leave the burden of argument with their opposition. Asking them for definitions smacks the ball back in their court. I just find it funny they didnt even bother the say anything, but went straight to the ban hammer.
The vagueness is a necessary component to ensure people think "tankie" is a different thing to "communist". They want to define all communists as tankies while simultaneously making less aware people believe that there are communists who are not tankies. Then the baby left people try to be the "good" communists who aren't tankies. The propaganda relies on it.
That's all they can do, for all their screaming about tankies being a "echo chamber" they absolutely cannot, will not, ever tolerate an opinion different from their own, even asking questions about and potentially casting doubt on their opinions is enough to get them frothing at the mouth with rage.