• lugal@sopuli.xyz
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      TERF (trans exclusive radical feminists) are basically transphobes who say “trans people are bad for women rights”.

      Tankies are a bit more vague in usage. But basically these are self proclaimed socialists who are actually more into authoritarian leaders. They will appreciate Stalin for everything he did and defend North Korea’s political system. Sometimes even praise China and Russia for being “anti-imperialist”. So they have all the social backwards ideas, even more so than TERFS because why would they be feminists.

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        Yes, Russia is being extremely anti-imperialist in Ukraine, and it’s also China’s anti-imperialism that’s threatening Taiwan. Tankies just hate the west, they don’t have principles.

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          To be more precise it is anti-US-imperialism and hegemony, which itself is a fine sentiment but when you’re willing to let any right wing dictator lead that fight you’ve really lost any credibility as a leftist.

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            I would argue that Russia was imperialist during the tsar empire, the Soviet union and today. It just never stopped exploiting their colonies (at least everything east of the Ural are colonies inhabited by indigenous communities not recognized in their fight for freedom) and the Soviet union smashed all the attempts to create a socialist community that was beyond bolshevism like the black army in Ukraine or the anarchosyndicalists in Spain. As a leftist myself I don’t see any reason to have solitary with Soviets and people who refere positively to them.

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            yeah, makes sense, but exactly like you said, credibility is important. being anti-imperialist in general with a focus on us imperialism is very different from being against only american imperialism while actively supporting the imperialism of other countries such as russia or china

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          Tankies just hate the west, they don’t have principles.

          They do have a principle: “The cruelty is the point”. This is usually used for far-right groups, who use conservatism as an excuse to hurt people, but it applies just as well to those who use anti-US sentiment to hurt people.

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        Your bias is showing, lol.

        Tankies are generally anti-west authies that root for self-proclaimed “communist” systems like China (which is state capitalist) or Russia (which is an oligopoly, the exact thing late stage capitalism devolves into). They generally spew the exact authoritarian and bigoted bullshit as the alt-right but do it under a different flag that historically opposed nazis, which is why they constantly claim that they’re somehow completely different and even more, “opposite” to nazis. Lemmy unfortunately has an infestation of them because the developers are tankies, which often shows on lemmy.ml (the instance said devs run).

        Like most reactionaries, tankies have no principles either, just a group they hate and they will twist their ideology as much as it takes to get you that end result. For tankies, that group is “the west”. They will coat their bullshit in opposition of the ultra-rich (which most of us can agree on) but make no mistake, as long as you live in a western nation they want you gone, or at best subjugated. This is currently the most apparent in their support of Russia’s genocidal war against Ukraine, because it props up a power that they perceive as “friendly” to them, but you might also catch them supporting the Uighur genocide and respond with extreme amounts of whataboutism every time such a take is brought up, essentially detracting from any problem in world powers they align with with counter-accusations of “the west”.

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        Origin of the term didn’t originate with China and the Tiananmen square massacre…

        From wiki:

        The term “tankie” was originally used by dissident Marxist–Leninists to describe members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) who followed the party line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Specifically, it was used to distinguish party members who spoke out in defense of the Soviet use of tanks to crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the 1968 Prague Spring uprising, or who more broadly adhered to pro-Soviet positions.

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        it started with the Tiananmen Square riots

        It actually started with British Marxist-Leninists who criticized the USSR’s use of tanks to crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and the communists who defended the USSR’s imperialism were called tankies.

        It started as a way to call out people who call themselves communists but nonetheless engage in or defend imperialism, and to this day that remains the meaning of the word. There are some liberals out there who use the word against all leftists, as a way to imply that leftism is inherently authoritarian. But that is not largely how it is used online, and it’s definitely not how OP was using it.