Okay, but wouldn’t an authoritarian government that prohibited the sale of weapons for genocide be just as bad as one that directly orchestrated the sales?
To quote a wise man:
There is absolutely no difference between good and bad things. You idiot. You imbicile.
No the bar is right there at “would drive tanks over people I disagree with” or “would celebrate a dead state that drove tanks over people they disagreed with”
Sure. I’ve never been willing to drive tanks over anyone, but I get called a tankie all the time by people who really can’t stand it that I say that neither democrats nor republicans have any business supporting genocide.
Well, opposing genocide doesn’t make you a tankie… usually its the opposite. There’s nothing Tanky about saying Democrats and Republicans support genocide because they do.
Liberals use the term to refer to anyone left of chuck schumer. Socialists and anarchists use the term to refer to authoritarians who cloak themselves in Marxism, Liberation, and Anti-Imperialism while perpetuating oppression through ethnic cleansing, mass incarceration, and wars of aggression.
Depends on the instance and community. I’m biased in what I see more often, but I’d bet on e.g. piefed.social you’ll see the term used more in the former sense rather than the latter, vice versa on e.g. dbzer0, and .world is a pretty mixed bag.
I’d say it’s because the bar for “tankie” is “anyone who had a problem with selling weapons for genocide.”
Okay, but wouldn’t an authoritarian government that prohibited the sale of weapons for genocide be just as bad as one that directly orchestrated the sales?
To quote a wise man:
No the bar is right there at “would drive tanks over people I disagree with” or “would celebrate a dead state that drove tanks over people they disagreed with”
Sure. I’ve never been willing to drive tanks over anyone, but I get called a tankie all the time by people who really can’t stand it that I say that neither democrats nor republicans have any business supporting genocide.
Well, opposing genocide doesn’t make you a tankie… usually its the opposite. There’s nothing Tanky about saying Democrats and Republicans support genocide because they do.
Opposition to the Democrat’s genocide is the number one reason I see people being called tankie for
Yet somehow centrists keep saying it anyway.
Call them tankies lol. Republicans are tankies tbh.
If republicans were tankies, centrists would never use it as an insult. They won’t insult the people they admire like that.
Liberals use the term to refer to anyone left of chuck schumer. Socialists and anarchists use the term to refer to authoritarians who cloak themselves in Marxism, Liberation, and Anti-Imperialism while perpetuating oppression through ethnic cleansing, mass incarceration, and wars of aggression.
Which version do you suppose is more common on lemmy?
Depends on the instance and community. I’m biased in what I see more often, but I’d bet on e.g. piefed.social you’ll see the term used more in the former sense rather than the latter, vice versa on e.g. dbzer0, and .world is a pretty mixed bag.