2026-04-15 02:11 UTC
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@tristynalxander@mander.xyz 2026-04-15 12:46
In the standard political compass. Anarchists and Tankies are both Leftists. Libertarians and Fascists are both Rightists. Anarchists and Libertarians are both Downists. Tankies and Fascists are both Upists.
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@taygaloocat@leminal.space 2026-04-15 05:26
The political left and authoritarianism are not contradictory. Leftists are not always Libertarians, and many of them will and do trade freedom for safety regularly.
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@spuriousMoot@lemmy.zip 2026-04-15 07:54
Found the tankie.
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@Riverside@reddthat.com 2026-04-15 05:29
Ironic that you'd call "red fascists" to the people supporting the socialist movement that literally saved Europe from fascism. Tankies support systems that have historically brought massive improvements to working and peasant classes in the oppressed world. Doubling and tripling life expectancy wherever communism arrives and succeeds, literacy from 20-30% to 100% in a few decades, women's rights, worker rights, free massive healthcare, free education... You just argue against tankies because you're a westerner whose leftism is conformed by CIA propaganda. You don't support any historically successful socialist movement (Cuba, Soviets, China, Vietnam, Laos) precisely *because* they defeated capitalism and fascism. Especially hurtful as a Spaniard, where we leftists lost our civil war because the biggest leftist movements were anarchists and they couldn't win a war, and we were left with 40 years of fascist dictatorship. You'd just rather praise the anarchists that lost against fascism than the communists who defeated it elsewhere.