chapotraphouse

We're not, unless your idea of "Tankie" includes people with pretty severe critiques of both the SU and Current (and pre-Deng) China. There are a lot of MLs and various Mao-associated tendencies, but I'm a Luxemburgist (less keen on strict party control than MLs, more sceptical of National Self-determination), and I've seen Council Coms, Bordigists, Gonzalists, Trots of Every Stripe, and anarchists here. Even a few reformists. You'll have a good time if you understand that we tend to take Communist and Socialist states as acting, however flawed, in good faith, and act similarly to members of all tendencies as long as they're socialist, internationalist, and LGBTQ+ positive etc, and, though sometimes a good Trot joke is hard to resist.

The answer to both options is yes, we are.

We very, very occasionally end up with the same positions as the far right sometimes, though from vastly different principles. Most of us support, with caveats, both the Soviet Union and Current China, as well as other states like Cuba, DPRK etc. Additionally we generally take an anti-imperialist stance here. Which means our opinions on Ukraine range from "A plague on both their houses" to "Revolutionary Defeatism" to "Putin deserves the wall even more than Zelensky, but a fast peace is preferable, preserves what remains of some pseudo socialist currents in the Donetsk Republics, and more importantly weakens the USA." Some are even more sympathetic to Ukraine, but acknowledge that NATO is not their friend, and that Ukraine has a very real fascist problem. We also have opinions on US politics that acknowledge Bernie Sanders as the milquetoast Social Democrat that he is and the Democrats as incapable of substantive reform even if Biden declared the DIctatorship of the Proletariat tomorrow. There is a substantial diversity of views there as well, though.

We meme a lot because we have a lot of injokes here, and it's a quick way of getting across a point that's been done to death, or quickly dunking on an opinion in a way regulars will immediately understand. Also, we're a pretty chill and jokey community here even when struggle sessioning.