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Even if you disagree with them, Trotskyists are not tankies, simple Marxists aren't tankies, leftists curious and exploring different theories aren't tankies, and ffs anarchists like myself are not tankies.

I feel like "tankie" indicated a very specific worldview at one time, but it's been used lately a lot to mean things like "doesn't agree with nations supporting oppression and inequity up to and including genocide" -- which is drastically at odds with how I've seen the term used in the past, no?

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[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 4 months ago

You'd see it more if you browsed communities on .world. I've even seen it here on the instance I'm on, and I can think of some specific users who've been called as such.

I've received reports and DMs calling me one for things I've posted here.

I'm happy to hear the communities you frequent don't seem to have this problem.

[-] zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 4 months ago

Well you're also a Russian troll for not blindly praising Biden /s (that was a funny accusation yesterday)

Luckily I don't see this stuff much except in this community, I generally stick to blahaj and a select few less popular communities.

I should really start browsing only local and subscribed communities instead of all lol

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