No such thing as punching down when everyone is equally represented and cared for. Together, we can make the world a much more hateable place for everyone ❤️
u get it 💞
Average lemmygrad member:
yuck ew no
edit: hating is not the same authoritarianism. i’d defend my haters with my life! authoritarians can kick rocks tho.
Nah avg lemmygrad user is a tankie not a communist.
sort of not really. tankies are just authoritarian communists. made a diagram to clarify.
They call themselves communists at least, but communism is incompatible with authoritarianism
In theory, but not in practice: they’re called tankies because they’re ideologically identical to the conservative communists who cheered when the USSR sent tanks to suppress the revolutions of more progressive communists.
sort of a no true scottsman error going on here. i don’t think it’s necessarily beneficial to anyone to gatekeep terms like this, just makes the language used to describe each other a mess to deal with.
Communism is defined as stateless. They’re socialists under the most charitable interpretation.
as i told the other commenter. no true scottsman. you’re just muddying the waters by making established language useless.
you’re not even necessarily wrong about the conflict in ideology but that does not change the fact that the pejorative term originally referred to a subset of members within a communist party, full stop.
if it makes you feel better, mentally put the title of the left hand circle in quotes.
tankies ⊆ so-called “communists”
tankies ⊆ authoritarians
Average lemmygrad member is a hater 1st, nationalist 2nd, socialist 3rd.
