• agamemnonymous
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    6 months ago

    There’s a difference between someone-needs-to-coordinate-and-manage-complex-undertakings “authoritarian” and line-the-dissidents-up-against-the-wall “authoritarian”. Tankies are the latter.

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        6 months ago

        Uh huh, and historically violent authoritarian transitional regimes are always so willing to step aside after the transition.

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        6 months ago

        Getting our hands dirty means shooting comrades who carried the revolutionary wars for being a bit yucky.