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Remember kids, Tankies wants to undermine democracy - same as facists.

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, nazis are a bigger problem than tankies, but no one here needs to be told to look out for nazis. That's kinda self explanatory.

But tankies are a lot less well known, but still have a very destructive ideology. Just look at the comments here — there are multiple people who asked what tankies even are.

Saying "Kick nazis out of 196" would be redundant, which can't be said for "Kick tankies out of 196".

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only issue is that I'll see perfectly logical socialist, communist or anarchist arguments get attacked as "tankie" and I worry that all this hullabaloo is just rightists trying to set back leftist ideology by painting it all as tankie ideology.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can attest to this. I've been called a tankie (on this subreddit, too) for politely asking someone not to call people the R-word.