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What is with the lemmy community's deep fear or tankies? (hexbear.net)

submitted 6 days ago by insurgentrat@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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There's dozens or harassment communities, if you say anything that's not pure, weapons grade condemnation of anything USSR or AES nuts accusations start getting levelled.

Internet communists have to be like the most irrelevant political bloc in the world. Even if you take the stance that everyone is hoping for a return of purges that's still just a completely irrelevant group. Most people I've seen being accused of tankyness is are more nuanced.

Wtf is going on. I thought it would settle down after the reddit migration faded.

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[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 53 points 6 days ago

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I think there could be some learned helplessness from being soaked in liberalism for their entire lives. Providing thoughtful analysis that leads them to a conclusion that 'tastes bad' to their brainworms results in a kind of political disgust. Spit it out fast! Tankie just happens to be the current floating signifier available to forget that nasty taste of historical materialism, etc.