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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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[-] RoseTintedGlasses@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 4 months ago

I actually got banned from a comm on here just yesterday for pointing out that one of the people who was posting a load of things saying "FUCK TANKIES" had repeatedly admitted that they were a fascist and shouldn't be trusted. Like I'm a trot, I have no love for stalinists obviously but I think it should be pretty obvious to people at this point that the people constantly yelling about tankies are just using it as an excuse to amputate the entire far left out of political discussions.

::: spoiler receipts

The image I posted: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/d7110acb-ec24-4f8b-9454-955956eb2548.png

The mod who removed it:

I saw that community hit trending, but I didn't know you got banned, damn. That community is sus -- doesn't really appear to be about leaving ML. I browse by all > new a lot, and I've seen a number of similar anti-"tankie" communities pop up all at once on several instances. I half think maybe a few people got upset by a recent thread on !asklemmy@lemmy.ml asking people if they're tankies.

If you don't mind me asking, what app are you using that lets you do a keyword search like that? I use Jerboa, but I don't think it has that function.

I literally just use the web browser bcs I'm spiritually a boomer despite physically being a zoomer

Well looks like the boomer is me because I just learned that it is possible to do a keyword search like that for one user. Thank you kindly!

[-] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You banned me, a gay man from lgbtq_plus with no explanation.

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