Remembering to look for and ignore folks with that telltale indicator has made the fediverse so much more enjoyable.

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    Considering “tankie” is just a pejorative for those who uphold socialism and oppose the US Empire, the “far right, conservative shite the tankies are smoking” is just Marxist theory.

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        It absolutely is, it’s the McCarthyian vision of a spooky scary communist that wants to gobble up all of the babies. It’s used against Marxists and anti-imperialists to terminate discussion.

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          Haha so wrong but please keep posting and voting on this post so people can see how tankies really are.