It’s essentially not what it seems. You might think its a conservative subreddit, but it is actually a far left communist subreddit trashing liberals. It’s also a tankie subreddit, they love Stalin and the DPRK, and they deny the Holodomor happened. They also seem to love Russia and think Ukraine is full of Nazis.
They seem to hate liberals, they call them Nazi sympathizers and genocide supporters, and they call liberals fascists.
Opinion on these people? These are the people that would not have voted in the election at all.
In my opinion: I just don’t like communists, they’re perpetually angry and pissed at the world because their ideology is done and dusted.
They love dickriding China as an example of communism working. Funny thing is, China owes its success to capitalism. China isn’t a moneyless classless or stateless society. It’s communist in name only.
China is more of a state-controlled capitalist system than a true communist society.
Their economic success comes from market reforms introduced by Deng Xiaoping in the late 20th century: things like privatization, foreign investment, and allowing competition.
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It’s essentially not what it seems. You might think its a conservative subreddit, but it is actually a far left communist subreddit trashing liberals. It’s also a tankie subreddit, they love Stalin and the DPRK, and they deny the Holodomor happened. They also seem to love Russia and think Ukraine is full of Nazis.
They seem to hate liberals, they call them Nazi sympathizers and genocide supporters, and they call liberals fascists.
Opinion on these people? These are the people that would not have voted in the election at all.
In my opinion: I just don’t like communists, they’re perpetually angry and pissed at the world because their ideology is done and dusted.
They love dickriding China as an example of communism working. Funny thing is, China owes its success to capitalism. China isn’t a moneyless classless or stateless society. It’s communist in name only.
China is more of a state-controlled capitalist system than a true communist society.
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Communist morons who are as toxic as oldschool SRS reddit content.
I guess the Incels aren’t all right wing
I like it
I’m a far leftist but not a tankie. Not that I wish to defend those assholes, (Seriously, fuck tankies, they’re just far right assholes with a communist paint job) but when leftists usually say liberal they mean the more classical notion of liberals rather than the American definition of democrats=liberals. So liberals are basically considered anyone who supports capitalism. And you’re right, China is state capitalism, not communism. But tankies don’t give a single shit. Anything that’s anti America or anti west is automatically good to them, regardless of the heinous shit countries like China and Russia does. I hate capitalism. I hate western capitalist governments. But that sure as fuck don’t mean I’m going to become a simp for countries like Russia or China just because they’re anti America.
TLDR: Tankies are fucking dumbass assholes, and the rest of us leftists fucking despise them.
Cringe but not too bad, there’s a lot of genuine criticism to be thrown towards libs from a leftist perspective
There are always going to be stupid people. They’re not worth raising your blood pressure over.
>Tankies are fucking dumbass assholes, and the rest of us leftists fucking despise them.
Yup.
There’s nothing on Donald Trump over there. Isn’t he considered a liberal by tankies?
They endorse Putin and quite often minimize the atrocities of America’s enemies out of spite towards America.
I think its funny sometimes to see silly points that liberals (supporters of capitalism) make, and sometimes it isn’t funny and its just stupid that they think that. Also, not to dickride China as you said but China doesn’t claim to be communist. It has the communist party of china but they haven’t attained communism yet.
Never heard of it. But if its far leftists mocking us, then I will start taking their opinion seriously when they can show at least one example of their viewpoint working in actual practice that doesn’t end in a strongman taking power killing people by the thousands or millions while people suffer, or only shows signs of success after backsliding in to capitalism like Vietnam and China did (but still are quite lacking in human rights as both have that strongman dictator problem.) Until then, I stick with what works, and the Nordic Model has given the highest standard of living humanity has ever known. And if some commies wanna mock me, I don’t care.
It’s a troll space. What do you think it would look like?
There are people who actually think the dprk, and Stalin’s ussr are great, but that’s the same as people who stan the US.
Like you say that China owes it’s success to capitalism.
You sound like an idiot. Capitalism is what tore the country apart because other countries wanted to rip it apart. They created the situation that led to the warlord era just because they wanted products from China.
And I’m not saying that it was perfect before the warlord era.
Things like that are so incredibly myopic.
In a lot of ways, China allows much more competition than the West does. It’s just that some things are done by the government.
Allowing foreign investment was also opening the doors up for Western companies to offshore their workforce. That required sharing knowledge.
I could easily see everything here taunted on that sub.
So it’s a bunch of edgelord virgins.
Ngl I know we are supposed hate on tankies, I genuinely think if Dark Brandon was more than just a meme and Biden was as aggressive as Trump at implementing his agenda even just public option, it would either break their minds or they would become Biden’s biggest defenders.
I just don’t give a fuck. On with life!
As a working -class liberal, I have rarely met a poor Leftist, so I consider anything coming out of their mouth disingenuous, hypocritical babble.
There’s a strange obsession with hating liberals more than the right among some on the far left. I am all for engaging with progressives (less so liberals) to try and explain the benefits of socialism as opposed to capitalism. I have met quite a few on leftist subs on Reddit who would rather try and convert a Trump voter for some odd reason to socialism or communism. It’s odd to me that you’d claim to be anti fascist but that you hate liberals more than anything.
This seems like the sort of thing that I can just ignore and have its contents never actually impact my life in any way, so I’m not sure why I would do anything beyond that.
Just ignore them.
I absolutely despise tankies, but I get a decent chuckle out of some of the screenshots. Just don’t go to the comments if you value your sanity. It’s a shame, because I think a lot of the criticisms of liberals are valid, but then they cross the line from valid criticism to ahistoricity and equal stupid “shittankiessay”
It is a conservative subreddit. The idea is to push what I call "toxic purity" onto any left leaning person to help right wingers win elections. I haven’t checked but I’ll bet if you dig into the comment history of anyone who is commonly in that sub you will find the ratio of arguments they’ve had with liberals to arguments they’ve had with conservatives is pretty much identical to the ratio any openly conservative person would have.
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Tankies aren’t communists, it’s as simple as that. Russia, China, and North Korea are not communist countries. No part of those countries is stateless, classless, and moneyless. They haven’t flattened the hierarchies, in fact they’re some of the most hierarchical countries on the planet. This is not a "no true Scotsman," they just literally don’t fit the definition of communist, and what they do is actually the antithesis of it.
People who call themselves communists and then love these far-right countries do a disservice to actual communists and they only exist to help the right-wing.
I don’t like tankies, but the liberals are not the left they think they are. So I can agree on that sliver of things and not the rest.
It’s certainly not where I spend my time.
Spaces like that are the most fertile ground imaginable for bad faith actors. If I’m a team leader on one of Putin’s disinfo teams, I’m focusing my people 100% on the angry-far-lefters and agitating heavily.
I think that people have a tendency to say places are "full of Russians / bots" when they’re probably like 99% neither, the problem is that the 1% is very visible and doing everything they can to stir up trouble. Places like shitliberalssay are probably more like 5% which means they’re absolutely infested and dominating every major thread.
Everyone needs a hobby I guess.
Tankies are idiots: Stalin was himself a genocidal maniac, the DPRK is about as close to "evil" as it gets as a nation, and Russia isn’t far behind if at all. China is a particularly bad example of a communist society. "State controlled capitalism" sounds about right. And they might be successful and powerful now, but the way the government has structured the state political system has many flaws and cracks.
That said, they do have a point when it comes to Israel: plenty of liberals are willing to deprioritize their being against genocide to support Democrats who support Israel.
Honestly, privileged losers who have never lived thru a revolution & just want attention & controversy. Stalin is evil- plain & simple, Lenin even knew it. I’ve seen some laugh about Mao & Stalin’s atrocities and imply the “capitalists” deserved it.
Tankies only hate capitalism bc they’re lazy and don’t want to work, they would be alt right otherwise. They don’t care about the GENUINE criticisms of capitalism, because they’ll justify violence in the name of revolution and communism.
They hate America so much they want to see all Americans suffer (including those who’ve been subjugated) EXCEPT for themselves bc they’re somehow “morally superior.” Deep down, most of them like Trump & couldn’t care less about groups that experience genocide. They’ll attack refugees that don’t say exactly what they want & they’ll claim any criticism of a non western country is a lie. I’ve seen them say the treatment of women in Afghanistan is not bad, at least not worse than the USA or that somehow- it’s all Americas fault they treat women poorly. They forget the USSR was the first to invade & destabilize Afghanistan, they killed more Afghan ppl, & they created the power vacuum that allowed the rise of the Taliban. Ofc, the US is at fault too, but they act like the treatment of women is somehow totally justifiable-, like the US military FORCED them to not allow girls to get an education.
Idk, liberals deserve criticism for sure, but the tankies I’ve met or come across have been the worst people, I’d take a magat over them any day. BIG distinction between tankies and leftists ofc.
They’re far right people masquerading as far left.
Honestly, why should I give a fuck what some conservatives think people with political leanings like my own say? Fox News and other louder sources have been claiming liberals say stupid stuff for decades and for the most part they’re still very wrong.
Some liberals say some wild bullshit sometimes. But I’ll never be a tankie.