As a leftist its also important to keep in mind we do differentiate between leftists who hold some opinions we disagree with compared to a Liberal who disagrees with us on nearly everything. Especially when said Liberals demand to be treated like leftists yet support imperalism, genocide, apartheid, capitalism, bigotry, and yet constantly call people "fake leftists" or "tankies".

[–] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

It's a strange state of affairs, there is a right wing recruitment pipeline deticated to making fun of liberals for being "cringe but also wrong"™.

An interesting experament you can do, replace "leftist", "the left" and "liberal" with "SJW" (swap the insider and outsider language) and ask yourself how much and in what interesting ways does the sentimate of the post change.

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[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And how do we do that?

This is the internet, everyone is as anonymous as they want to be. Lots of people find these posts by browsing by All, so they're not likely to be aware of (or care about) the rules for a particular instance. If a Liberal and a Leftist wander into the same community, it can be hard to tell them apart unless they've made politics their whole identity.

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[–] verdare@beehaw.org 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Maybe I’m in a bubble, but I have yet to see anyone who’s not genuinely a tankie being accused of such.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ive seen people be called tankies for not supporting Kamala and opposing Liberal Democracy

[–] verdare@beehaw.org 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

for not supporting Kamala

That’s wild. I’ve never heard that take and have a difficult time believing that it is common.

opposing Liberal Democracy

What alternative were they in favor of?

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That’s wild. I’ve never heard that take and have a difficult time believing that it is common.

World users were literally calling anyone who critiqued Kamala Russian bots, were you not paying attention for the last several months?

What alternative were they in favor of?

Depends, some leftists support a workers democracy, im personally an Anarcho Syndicalist

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[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago (24 children)

I've seen conservatives lob the word tankie around before like they do with other scary sounding political words. But not here on lemmy. "Tankie" has a very precise meaning on lemmy that everyone here seems to understand, despite a few tankies trying to gaslight people into thinking the term has "lost it's meaning".

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