TRexBear [they/them]

I think that’s horrifyingly normal honestly. I can still remember jingles from adverts from my childhood that I haven’t seen in decades. It’s really insidious.

My problem isn’t your shorthand, it’s that “authoritarian-left” isn’t a concept that actually exists.

core authleft belief

Rid yourself of political compass brain

America, your entire country is “Tibet”.

I just think it’s funny that capitalist states like the US or Israel fit your definition equally as well if not more so than socialist states like the USSR or the PRC. Can you not appreciate how that waters down your definition to the point of uselessness?

If you want a more accurate definition, just say “tankies” are Marxist-Leninists or supporters of AES countries. At least that makes sense and is specific. Less critical and derogatory though, which I suppose goes against the intention of the term.

Neither was South Korea or South Vietnam, so I’m sticking with calling the US a tankie state.

Tankie: Someone who is authoritarian to a degree he sees using the army (tanks) against the own civilian population as a valid and legitimate action.

Serious question; does this include for example supporters of Israel today? Would someone who supported US action in Vietnam or Iraq or Afghanistan be a tankie?

edit: I just noticed “own civilian population” in your comment? Is the implication that you’re not a tankie if you’re only murdering innocent foreigners? Ironically the term ‘tankie’ was coined when Khrushchev sent soviet tanks to Hungary so were the original tankies not actually tankies?

skill issue

Would you have preferred Germany taken the whole of Poland from day one? Would that have been better for Polish Jews?

Molotov-Ribbentrop only happened because the Allies refused to work with the Soviets in crushing the Nazis before they could act. It was a defensive compromise.

I’m dreaming of nuclear war