• ATGM 🚀@beehaw.org
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        And Stalinist, Maoists, and other authoritarian Communists.

        Usually they also “love” countries like North Korea, China, and for whatever reason (aNtI iMpErIaLiSm), Syria, Russia, and so on.

        Red Fascists. They use the same tactics of gas lighting and goal post shifting.

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          maoists??? I think you should read anything by mao. he was anything but “authoritarian”, he spend most of his time after 1949 taking a sledgehammer to bureaucracy & encouraging communities to be self reliant

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            And also going around making lunatic declaration, indifferent to the human suffering he was causing.

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      So, people who love North Korea, or defend russia invading Ukraine, people, who stand by even the most autoritarian, anti-democratic, militaristic, imperialistic regimes - just because they call themselves “socialist” or “communist” - are “Tankies”.

      Would be good to point out these people you are mentioning are not all the same.

      There are people that Are critical of Russia, but don’t buy from western propaganda and are being called tankies too.

      It is more like, if one dare to question the western narrative = tankie.