this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2023
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Dunking on Tankies from a leftist perspective.
A tankie is someone who defends/supports authoritarian or even totalitarian regimes who call themselves "socialist". The term originated from people supporting the 1956 invasion of Hungary by the Soviet Union. Nowadays they are just terminally online, denying genocides, and falling for totalitarian propaganda and calling such regimes "true democracies". remember to censor usernames when necessary.
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They fall for the fallacy that because America hasn't done great things in its history, "not America" must be virtuous and a moral paragon. They don't realize that there can be even darker evils instead. It's a simplistic worldview where the bad guy's enemy must be a good guy, not an even worse bad guy.