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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • If you’re trying to be neutral or just don’t much care for some particular political issue

    There is no such thing, if you’re “neutral” you’re merely defending the status quo. The right defends the status quo, the left opposes it.

    Read this quote by one of the greatest heroes of the world, Martin Luther King:

    I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice […]








  • Macron is using violence to deal with the opposition is France, he would be a tankie by your current definition.

    Netanyahu is a dictator, Biden would be a tankie by your definition, as he supports Netanyahu.

    Tankie is pejorative for “far-left”, that’s it, it’s an insult.

    Btw, I have deliberately ignored references to left/right as meaningless in my quest for information.

    You can’t do that, this is strictly about politics.



  • Did you notice the huge amount of downvotes on any post in here that isn’t outright insults the so called “tankies”?

    You got down voted but you’re right. Tankie is the new form of commie after that fell out of favor.

    During the Red Scare, calling someone a “communist” was itself a death threat. Red Scare is now over and you have people openly declaring themselves communist, that’s why they had to come up with a new term. Tankie was their first attempt but they messed up by making it too restrictive, now they’re pushing a new term

    “Woke.”

    Example sentences: “Free healthcare is wokeism”

    The above is a natural evolution since “Free healthcare is communism” would have the opposite effect if you keep repeating it over and over. At some point people will declare themselves “woke” and the right will come up with yet another new term.