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I wouldn't be surprised if Tankies unironically liked Democrats better when they were the KKK.
With how eagerly centrists have been throwing vulnerable minorities under the bus, it's clear that they bitterly regret the civil rights act and the voting rights act because they cost the party the support of the bigots they love dearly.
I’m black, the Dems have not thrown me under the bus.
Give 'em time. This last election cycle they got Muslims, the undocumented, and trans people.
Dems didn’t overturn affirmative action.
Dems didn’t kill the police brutality bill in 2020.
Dems aren’t the ones fighting tooth and nail to keep confederate flags and statues up.
It’s pretty obvious to me whose tryna to throw black people under the bus.
If you think they won't abandon you in order to chase nonexistent gettable Republican votes, look at who they already abandoned.
Republicans are obviously worse and I never said they weren't. That doesn't mean that Democrats are reliable allies, because unless your name is Netanyahu, they just aren't.
You're a dumbass
No he's not.
You're a dumbass
No I'm not.
Anyone who uses the word "tankie" as a pejorative is a dumbass and needs to touch grass. Same goes for people who defend people's use of the word "tankie".
The term tankie is used to vilify leftists and sow division amongst leftists. It is also used by chronically online liberals to describe anyone who is left of center.
Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
It's used as a pejorative for authoritarian "leftists", e.g. people who could barely be considered left-wing and have more in common with right-wing authoritarians, and who praise authoritarian governments like Russia/China.
Other people on the left don't want to be associated with that shit, and rightfully so.
It used to be. The meanings of words change over time
Centrists call anyone to the left of Manchin a tankie, regardless of their actual positions.
Tankies aren't leftists, they're state capitalists which is an even stupider version of capitalism than the normal kind. Even the Chinese abandoned you foolish tankies.
The only people that get butthurt about the word tankie are tankies.
Then I guess I better start praising our lord and savior Xi Jinping /s
GIven that I've had Tankies try to tell me the fight for LGBT rights isn't worth it because it's a "distraction" and "actually racist to force other cultures to conform to Western Values"
Yeah...
You gladly voted for a genocider and were ready to throw foreigners under the bus in exchange for your own safety. Now you get neither. Good job, loser.
Hm, who did you vote for? The genocide enabler or the genocide enabler?
I'll wait while you perform whatever mental gymnastics you need to rationalize how your vote is different than everyone elses.
I voted for Bin Laden. A write-in.
My favorite thing about 10hr old accounts is how funny they are.
Given that centrists are parroting "Boys in girl's sports" bigotry in their own ads, it's not like y'all weren't itching to abandon trans people.