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Saw a comrade post this as a response in the Mousolini dunk thread, that become a dunk thread on an annoying lib calling us tankies lol.
Thought this was really insightful, and from a different angle than what i usually see as the rascist connotations of "tankie" and of western left anti-communism, and thought it deserved its own thread. Particularly, since the influx of western anti-cummunist takes we've been dealing with recently.
This is a good fucking take and plays into the point I keep making of the nationalist/internationalist issue surrounding this mess. It definitely has a nationalist component I'm completely with @axont@hexbear.net on this.
Yeah I've been trying to see the term "tankie" as an obfuscated way of saying "traitor" recently. It's not a word that applies to people actually from socialist countries most of the time, it's what someone from the imperial core gets called if they express admiration for the scary foreign places.
Also hello everyone! Sorry I'm not used to attention like this thread lol
I'd appreciate being called a traitor straight up so I can respond 
I wear tankie as a badge of honor honestly. If someone calls me a tankie it's usually because they're already owned and they've run out of steam. They call me a tankie because they've already lost. It's at that moment that they think they've taken back the upper hand but it's all a ruse. They fell for it. They left themselves open. And that's when you hit em with the 
There are already racialized versions of political slurs for Chinese and Russians. Anyone who professes a positive opinion of China, no matter how true or mild, is a "Wumao" and the same for Russia is a "Vatnik".
Both can also be "bots" because no human could ever think well of those places. Also probably projection for the fact that much of this sentiment is probably coming from a huge US astroturfing operation operating out of Elgin Airforce Base.
I'm sick of lemmy.world trying to act like they understand a global picture of the world. Fucking brainwash runs deep
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Way too many times I've been talking with
someone who called me a tankie, and I ask them
why it seems like China and Vietnam have such
high approval for their respective states. That's
when it starts coming out. They'll say communism
is just a better fit for their culture, or that the
people there are more easily brainwashed, or that
the approval ratings are all lies. It's so racist and
disgusting.
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The only common thread I've noticed is that it
always refers to an imperial core person admiring
something foreign. You're somehow not a tankie if
you're actually from China and you're a Marxist-
Leninist. In that case you're just an authoritarian.
But if you're from Canada and you say nice things
about China? Then you're a tankie.
There's some kind of nationalist brainworm built
into the term. There's some kind of conception that
foreigners just do socialism incorrectly, but white
people can do it properly through...I don't know,
voting every 4 years, or begging for it nicely or
making a utopian settlement in the woods. But if
you're a white person who wants revolutionary
socialism, you've allowed scary foreign devils to
pollute your mind and you're a tankie now. Telling
liberals that being a "tankie" is the overwhelmingly
most normal position for communists worldwide
shortcircuits their brains. They can only conceive
of three types of communists: Idiot white
teenagers from imperialist countries, cynical
dictators, and brainwashed foreigners who can't
think properly because they're foreign.
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You shoulda been tagged. 
Excuse me, I believe the preferred nomenclature is "People of Tank".
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