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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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[-] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

...today I learned that apparently supporting basic human rights for immigrants is fascism.

Whatever that person is smoking, I want some of it...

And yeah, I try to keep an open mind but it feels like .world tends to lean pretty toxic lately...

The thing that gives me hope is I also see a lot of .world users speaking out against that type of behavior, but yeah I agree things have been toxic, and it's unfortunate that a lot of it seems to stem from very influential users, including mods.

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