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        Tankies are funny in the way that they manage to be simultaneously extreme left and extreme right

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          Back when it was on reddit the politics of chapostraphouse pretty much confused the fuck out of me. This image here is a good example. Nobody who is “left” or even “lib” would think that trump is anything but a lying criminal fascist douchebag, and would strongly question his motives for “ending the Korean war”, which seemed to be clumsily attempting to cozy up to a brutal dictator who he admired. So what are they talking about? Who knows. I don’t think they really know.

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          Red fash. Just the far-right with a coat of red paint. The difference between Stalinists and Strasserists is mostly just the level of racism.

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              Frighteningly often. I have some tankie memes I have saved displaying their antisemitism, for whenever I forget that they’re shitheads on all fronts, not just a few. They’re… not pretty.

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      I mean, as much as I hate invoking it because of PCM - that’s kind of the idea behind the political compass.

      Instead of just left-right, there’s also up-down where “up” is in favor of centralized power and “down” is in favor of decentralized power.

      Tankies just value authoritarianism more than they value the traditional left-right dynamic. They prefer politics near the top of the political compass, even if those politics aren’t in alignment to the left/right of their own.

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        As the horsehoe theory which came out of it that political compass is garbage though, constructed by right wing libertarians as a propaganda tool for their ideology, it doesn’t reflect actual political theories.