• ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works
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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.

    • goat@sh.itjust.worksOPM
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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.

        • goat@sh.itjust.worksOPM
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          1 year ago

          There are definitions and explanations of what tankies are on the sidebar.

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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.

      • ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works
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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.