we live rent free in their heads, as we should.

See, here’s one of them

You sound like a conservative. Wonder why?

This is the weird thing I notice about lemmy so far. It’s even more of an echo chamber than reddit

It’s more interesting to see different viewpoints, I’ll probably be called conservative just for saying this

And why would anyone care about Albert Einstein’s view on Lenin? An obvious fallacious appeal to authority, and not even a very smart one.

That’s if this is even true.

Okay, sorry, it’s just often tankies will say “what is a tankie?” because of the reasons I mentioned. Case in point, look at the person saying “what the fuck is a tankie” then immediately mocking the person who answered them.

I’m sorry for my snark, I slept poorly and should probably not be interacting with people rn.

Edit: oh, looks like that thread was nuked so I was wrong about the question already being answered lol. I owe you even more apologies ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Basically a tankie is someone that wants to be a socialist or a communist but thinks that means supporting the USSR or Maoist China, which are self-admittedly state capitalist.

The term originally comes from people who supported the USSR rolling tanks into Hungary to crush their rebellion. Lately such people have supported Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on the basis that anything anti-US interests is somehow socialist, despite modern Russia just being a nakedly hypercapitalist/fascist dystopia, and also despite the expansionist invasion just being like super obviously evil.

Don’t worry. I asked what a tankie was on my first day on lemmy. I learned, sure enough, I learned.

Yeah it’s pretty dead brained. Obviously America has problems and I’ll be the first one to point out it’s flaws. I do my best to learn about them and be aware of them.

That doesn’t mean that China gets to genocide anyone they don’t like.

Tankies are not lefists.

The only folks I ever see accused of being tankies are to the left of the folks claiming they are tankies. Sometimes that means you’re talking to Michael Moore. Sometimes that means you’re talking to Pete Buttigieg. Sometimes that means you’re talking to Mitt Romney. But its always a guy to your left.

The only thing they believe is America Bad

The dirty little secret about American politics is that everyone thinks America Bad. Texas conservatives hate California. New York liberals hate Florida. Half of Michigan hates the other half. When the US gets hit by a hurricane, its either because the state at ground zero is too Christian or too Libertarian or too Gay, take your pick.

If hating America is all it takes to be a Tankie…

Communist here, don’t like fascism. (If we did, why wouldn’t we all just go to the fascist instances?)

My acceptance of needing to have a degree of “dictatorship” is begrudgingly and only as much as it’s necessary for the US dictatorship not to collapse the country for its interests MONEY!