It’s a term used by people on the left (both liberal/soc dem left and ultras/Trots/leftcom) who unironically believe that actually existed USSR was red fascism/imperialism to distinguish themselves as the true “real socialism has never been tried” left despite having nothing to show for (including the soc dems) for the past 100 years.

Anyone to the left of Ronald Reagan

A blanket term to denigrate any leftist with Marxist ideas

Basically, gg once you say anything left of soc dem

"Pinko commie" for the 21st century

Hexbear eat Lemmy already. I want my fucking username back

Radlibs like to call themselves communists on occasion now or at least socialist and they want to distance themselves from communists

The polite liberal version of saying anti-white

Leftist I dont like

woke

It means I'm going to roll my eyes at you if you use the term in my org

Does you driver's license have an endorsement for this ? Then you're a tankie.

fuck tankies

Tankie refers to Stalinists, like the original tankie who happened to be an arch-Stalinist - Khrushchev /s

In an etymological sense, the word jumped the shark a long time ago but now it's reaching new depths of meaninglessness that it really has become a floating signifier these days.

Anyone with policy positons that aren't generally safe towards neoconservatism?

Someone who drives a tank

It means you have enough gas for a round trip!

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it just means pinko. it's an uncomplicatedly anti-communist epithet. some confused self-identified leftists still use it and they need to be gently corrected or else disregarded completely.

stalin shouldn't have stopped at berlin