I popped in to read that thread and it’s wall to wall people being called tankies for the most minor pushback. Something like “sure, fuck tankies, but surely we can all agree that what’s happening in Palestine is clearly worse though” will be heavily downvoted with an essay reply from pugjesus. This is fantastic, I hope this keeps happening until there’s nobody left in the in-group. If even a tenth of those people end up more amenable to socialist thought after the experience of being tossed outside the wire, the obsessive liberals will have done us a huge service. Like in every piece of dystopian fiction where people are banished from The City on suspicion of being sympathetic to Wasteland Rebel Group, only to end up a lot more sympathetic after being thrown into the wasteland themselves. Reminds me of that cliche about how we create our enemies, then they arrive.

I hope the most anticommunist power users never shut the fuck up about tankies, I hope they tell more ridiculous stories based on more and more tenuous connections that invite obvious critique, and i hope they get more paranoid and vindictive in response to that critique. I hope they fully depart reality and alienate every well-meaning liberal who has the temerity to question their urban legends about the scary cryptids who believe in human flourishing. I hope every one of them turns into Jack D. Ripper and triples down on tankie cockroaches rehtoric. I wish them all a very merry Detroit: Become Hitler and I’ll be there with open arms and a big smile to greet the nice people they drive off.