• goat@sh.itjust.worksOPM
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    1 year ago

    Tankie pisses them off, which is why I use it.

    What would you suggest instead?

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      1 year ago

      I don’t know tbh. I know that it’s not helpful to make a critique and not offer an alternative . I guess I feel like it feels like when republicans call people snowlfakes, wokies, soyboys. And they do it for the same reason.

      I think of them as:

      Faux commie edgelords.

      Desperate contrarians.

      Putin apologists.

      CCP bootlickers.

      I think it really depends on the context.

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        1 year ago

        🤔 How about redfash? Associate them with something they hate and is universally hated?

        Tanktards also works. Exploit their weird hypocrisy with name-calling.

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          1 year ago

          You’re thinking combining the word “retard” with tank is a good approach? We’re not going to do well.

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        1 year ago

        Tankie is a political ideology, though. Don’t think soyboy is a political ideology.

        Either way~ You can always make your own posts if you want! c:

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          In the context of modern history it’s really not. Tankie is meaningless because the states they defend aren’t even the same states that they were when Tankie as a term was coined.

          Russia is right wing Christian authoritarian oligarchy. Ran by men who yacht around the French Riviera.

          China is a authoritarian mega corporatocracy that sells its shares on Wall Street, and makes iPhones for the biggest American corporation.

          Those people on that /c don’t have an ideology, aside from hating the west.