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The term Tankie has a clear definition that Cowbee likes to ignore:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those > who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the > occurrence of the events thereof.
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Has an elected Democrat used the word "tankie" yet? I know it's coming.
Not that I'm aware but a lib boomer radio host I hate listen to sometimes while driving for work has said it in the last year and he regularly has Democrats on his show including senators
A month ago he had some nobody lib with a shitty blog about how everything Trump is doing is like Stalin but instead of talking about her blog most of the interview was more like a book report on a book that she hadn't finished reading by her own admission and which she could've pronounce one of the 2 words in the title (this lady sounded white as hell, English was definitely her first language)
That book? Gulag Archipelago of course and the host ageed, he also thinks archipelago is a difficult word to pronounce and neither of them acknowledge that the author was a literal nazi (entirely on brand for this asshole given his overwhelming support for
)
Been meaning to make an effort post about this guy, ideally with the goal of organizing a brigading of the call-ins to his show and a raid of the livechat of his youtube stream for at least a few weeks to fuck with him and maybe even turn some of his now radicalizing boomer fans against him by getting them to see how they've been lied to