Tankie confusion : Trashpost

[+] TiggerYumYum@lemm.ee 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 years ago

Conservatives don't agree with things. Conservatives agree with people.

And tankies are conservatives. It's not a political ideology. They're tribalists whose chosen ingroup is anyone doing leftist signalling. Same pattern of behavior as screeching for liberty and freedom while installing a king.

[-] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Tankies are the kind of people who would definitely sell their soul for Trump if they had read another single blog post few years ago.

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Many of them may still do that anyway.

[+] LemmyAtEm2@lemmy.world -10 points 2 years ago

Am I missing something? Aren't tankies just ancap? Also what is Trump saying that is anti capitalism?

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 16 points 2 years ago

Ancap is anarcho-capitalism, e.g. screw the government, stateless society where capitalism is king. Not entirely the tankie viewpoint.

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago

"Not even close, babyyyyyyy." They might claim some different underlying beliefs, but in practice, just like Libertarians, they're just conservatives trying to hide the fact that they're conservatives by cosplaying as other groups.

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Tankies supposedly oppose capitalism, and they only support anarchism when it's in the West.

The term is derived from those who sided with the tanks when the USSR rolled into towns and later when the CCP sent the military on their own citizens during an event that resulted in millions of deaths across their nation. You know, "communists" but without any power in the hands of the workers.

[+] TankieTanuki@sh.itjust.works -10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Tankies have been anti-NATO since 1949. It has nothing to do with the Red v. Blue spectacle.

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago

So if and when the US is no longer a member of NATO, the Tankies will openly support Trump?

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

A lot of them already openly support Trump and promoted him actively on Hexbear and Lemmygrad before the election.

[-] TankieTanuki@sh.itjust.works -5 points 2 years ago

No. Why would we?

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