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Sadly, yes. He is one of the bad ones. Same with Chuck Norris. Conservative Christian tankies.
I knew he was bad but this is like you know, particularly bad
Yeah. He's been like this for a while. He attended the Kirk Cameron School for Mediocre Actors at some point.
Mediocre is pretty damn generous. Like, I was a 90s kid that watched Hercules, but even back then his acting was laughable.
Yeah it was schlocky b-movie stuff overall to be sure. I definitely had a soft spot for him as a kid, and as others have said it’s pretty disappointing that he’s turned out to be such a cockwomble.
They are not lefties what are you even talking about. They're both white conservative christofascists.
I'm not sure if you're just using tankie as a general pejorative or what but it specifically means authoritarian left.
I think it's fine considering he specified conservative christian tankie. Like they're the conservative version of pro-authoritarian.
It's called a fascist, and it's fucking weird and suspect that'd you'd try to push anything else.
I don't think so man, words have power in their meaning.
"Tankie" started as a general pejorative shorthand for "in the tank."
MAGAs are tankies. Evangelicals are tankies. Every extremist is a tankie.
It's just we generally only see the communist authoritarian tankies on here.
That may be what you mean, that isn't what everyone else means.
That is such an obviously bullshit etymology that I'm going to accuse you of making it up to intentionally muddy the water.
I was wrong in that it has been used to describe right wing extremists but it does originate with the idea that these people would happily hop in a tank and crush any dissent. I realize I was very vague
In my mind, it made sense that anyone willing to use force (eg, a tank) to impose their violent ideology is a tankie.
That's called a fascist, like for real bro.
Out of the loop - what did Chuck Norris do?
Wants to brand and/or kill all atheists