This was published back in 2020 and it is truly one of the most cringe things I’ve ever read. Some highlights:
But either way, let’s have a look at why Tankies don’t matter, and yet in a way, they really do!
(Did that sound confusing? That’s right, it’s all about the ‘dialectic!’ The endless rub and grind of opposites! REEEEEE!) 😛
Nowadays, however, the term ‘Tankie’ is used for a general ‘woke’ or superficial, virtue-signalling kind of ‘progressive’ politics and rhetoric, where any level of brutality in Pyongyang, Tehran or Peking is taken to be less of a morally substantive consideration than the fact such governments are against the UK, the USA, the EU, Israel, or any other supposedly ‘root of all evil’ kind of country.
Arguing with Tankies is like arguing with Holocaust deniers (in some cases, of course, the term can overlap; depending on how shameless their antisemitism and antizionism is).
The authoritarian left’s fascination with dictatorial ideologies and regimes can be founded on naivete, or it can be founded on self-consciously cynical opportunism.
The one thing it is never founded upon, however, is a healthy synthesis of good faith and moral and logical consistency.
This means that at least 99% of the time, if not always, reasoning with Tankies is utterly futile.
What’s all this we hear about religion being the opium of the people?
Not any more!
Tehran are just misunderstood…
Er, what?!
Ironically, guess who one of the biggest killers of Marxists (as distinguished from Marxist killers!) in 20th century Iran was?
You don’t have to be a Marxist to win the approval of Tankies.
After all, they’re a bit more ‘tolerant’ and ‘inclusive’ towards other kinds of totalitarian regimes than they used to be, before the age of the internet!
At the very end of the article is a youtube embed for Guns N’ Roses’ song Chinese Democracy. This is the most deeply unserious article ever.
If you judge “tankies” by our enemies, we come out looking pretty good.
Hence, BadEmpanada’s point
I’m afraid I’m not familiar with this.
It’s simply what it is on the can; BadEmpanada just used the FDR quote ‘Judge Me By My Enemies’ to make his point on a video to show he’s quite principled
Lol I can’t listen to him in a livestream-style-video for more than like 30 seconds but that “ooh, I can’t imagine a better compliment than that” about zionist hate was hilarious. I also love when Zionists dislike me
Nice.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
It was the tankies that stopped the Holocaust
Lmao not a single “tankie” I know would ever veer into holocaust denialism
You’re denying their right to commit a holocaust against the Palestinian people
I have seen libs unironically claim that Holocaust denial was state policy in the USSR.
Nah, saying that what zionists are doing to Palestinians is like what nazis were doing to Jews is considered holocaust denying to these people.
Oh my fucking god that article is pure
It’s worse than the most smug redditor shit. I only made it as far as the third paragraph before I wanted to gouge my eyes out with a fucking spoon.
Nowadays, however, the term ‘Tankie’ is used for a general ‘woke’ or superficial, virtue-signalling kind of ‘progressive’ politics and rhetoric
they just straight up admit its the “woke” of punching left
Alright, who taught them the word this time?
It’s the year 2100, all our coastal cities are flooded, yet we’re still complaining about a decision of
Stalin’sKhrushchev from 1956.It wasn’t even Stalin, it was fucking Khrushchev 😭😭
Lol sorry. I just speed read this article.
And one of few instances where he was correct. And no surprise here that every reactionary out there, either from the right or left, hate him for it, while praise his worst actions like coup and destalinisation.
100% It’s just funny they name us after something he did, when most of us do not have too high an opinion of him. Like just call me a Stalinist - that’s a name I can take pride in lol
this person absolutely busted out a thesaurus to sound smart but i must thank them for teaching me “birl” : literally to spin or cause to spin, but used in a sentence more to to mean ‘having a good time’. from webster:
spent a good part of his time in Edinburgh birling into the wee small hours of the night.
i dunno if it will ever be useful but i’ll see if i can work it into the ol lexicon
That’s just Brits mispronouncing “whirl” I think.
Or this is how real (read: not that posh queen-talk) Brits say it. Idk, but I agree that it’s a fun one
Ironically, guess who one of the biggest killers of Marxists … in 20th century Iran was?
I mean, in a >90% Muslim country, I’m going to assume they were… a muslim? Quélle surprise.
Of course, globally speaking, far and away the biggest killer of Communists in the 19th century was an officially Christian Nazi Germany.
And second place, Christian Nazi America.
It appears that we are both weak and strong.
But either way, let’s have a look at why Tankies don’t matter, and yet in a way, they really do!
But either way, let’s take a look at why the enemy is weak, and yet in a way, they’re strong!
use tanks
use of tanks is derogatory
pottery
Getting ever closer to fox news complaining about the tankies on hexbear
In the dizzying birl and buzz of the age of the internet, nobody can be blamed for not being entirely au fait with the latest online slang.
:kelly: (latest fad)
I dont even know what the point of the article was, and why did he include a straight up nazi tweet from Richard spencer as an example of Tankie rhetoric???
