We did it everyone. Anarchist are now tankies.

Further proof that Tankie is just the liberal version of "SJW" or "Woke"; a meaningless buzzword to describe anything left of them.

Woke!

Tankie!

this is the kind of take you get from people who literally never leave the internet. a man doing an extreme act of self-sacrifice for a cause he believed in (and a cause that is plainly correct)? to the average person he's a hero, but to the internet-addled liberal he's a mentally ill tankie

Jesus christ is now a tankie
- The only time Christ used violence was against money changers, it's just the biblically correct position
- You forgot about capitalist, supply side American Jesus comrade! You can see him on the billboards alongside the highways. A tall, bearded, long haired white guy who helped build the president's estate! Both the motive and the conscience of the sinner due to God's all knowing nature! The force behind the army and the alt right! Infinitely kind is his allowance for everyone to participate in capitalism!
you must have missed the posts from hexbear dot net calling him a lib, not just the internet-addled liberal has terrible takes
- hexbear dot net
  internet-addled liberal

Friendly reminder that this is how they would justify any of our murders. Super cool not mainlining American propganda makes you a persona non grata to the libs.

Do not trust the liberals. They will betray you.
yep. just imagining the media discourse on me if I was randomly in the news. All the hogs would be cheering for my death
- I would like it to be entered into the record in case I die: fuck you, hogs.
- If I live my life in a way that the hogs cheer for my death, I can die happy.
- I've always had this feeling that if I died for any infamy-producing reason they would track down someone from a job a worked at a long time ago who would say that I was a lazy POS and then everyone would assume that that's the reason I was a socialist.

I kind of hope that seeing this discourse play out in real time will make some of the self-proclaimed anarchists&leftists who love to call others tankies realize where their favourite left-bashing term comes from and how it gets utilized.

Tankie has been used against anti-imperialist anarchists and demsocs for years, if they still haven't caught on to it it's unlikely they'll realize now.
- in fact, the main purpose of the pejorative is to separate and filter the anti-imperialists from the chauvinists, and protect the chauvinist majority from the ideas of the anti-imperialists
We can hope, but it never did that before on a big scale, terms like "Stalinists" or "Tankies" are used by the western anarchists and ultras as a way to appeal to liberals and succdems that they are the "good" commies that respect the nonviolence, civility in discourse, marketplace of ideas and other white supremacy fairy tales, and not those "evil" commies that actually have any successes against the liberals and succdems.
Which predictably falls on deaf ears because neither libs nor succdems care in the slightest, even "good" commie is a commie and will get into the camp at next purge because the only thing that matters is the treat flow provided by imperialism.

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The furry community disavows.

"genocide is bad" and other similar sickening dark comments

"Looking forward to the Elden Ring DLC!"
-Joseph Stalin

here's the r/tankiejerk thread on this guy that got deleted by the mods for being too lib even for them, now the mods made a pinned thread praising him and the users are calling the mods tankies in it lol

Mfw my anti communist internet community is filled to the gills with fashs and liberals
right winger politics is both a real thing that does exist and just pure fucking vibes
McCarthy’s ghost needs a towel
Why are the mods political ideology because this confuses the hell out of me.
- Most people don't have a coherent ideology.
  I think there's a lot of anti-tankie radlibs who are just vaushites and will never be anything but vaushites. But a bunch of them are likely newbie leftists who are still being radicalized. They're noticing that capitalism is completely out of control, but they've been propagandized so hard their entire lives that they still have major "China bad"/"Russia bad"/"NATO good" brainworms and those take time to get rid of. This is likely a tipping point for a few of them, where they realize that the anti-tankie crowd doesn't actually share their ideals and doesn't actually want the world to become more equal, which can lead them to question their current world view further and slowly hammer away at those brainworms.
- mix of radlibs, succs, anarcho-bidenists, neolibs
I remember that they had to pin posts denouncing racism and transphobia because the sub attracted right wingers who would post some random black liberal and seethe over the tankie DEI corporations in Silicon Valley
- iirc that was r/EnoughCommieSpam which has had to make multiple separate threads for praise of fascist politicians, antisemitism, transphobia, racism, nazism, etcetera but r/tankiejerk has had to make threads about how "anti-white racism" is a fascist dog whistle, to stop calling Corbyn a tankie bcs it makes them look bad and that the US is bad actually
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FINALLY

Get in the tank, comrade! We're overthrowing this fucking state!

Sectarianism has been solved. The left has been unified. We shall not make excuses for the terror.

Bismark: "shit black and red united oh god oh fuck!"
- He should go to a doctor for that

Always have been

I love my anarcho-tankie comrades!

Sudden urge to go check on the 196 paedophiles and see how they're handling the sacrifice of Aaron Bushnell

To be frank I would rather check in on 0 pedophiles than 196...
- Some of us are suckers for pain
There is not a single blip about it, they're too busy posting unfunny garbage and chaser memes.
Edit: Looks like there was a single thread that didn't get much traction. The sub is not as political as it used to be (unless there's a chance to be sectarian against 'tankies') so that's to be expected.
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Too busy posting greentexts on reddit to care about Palestine, basically

Finally, synthesis. Sectarianism is over. MLA.

"pay no attention to these tankies"

as an ML who through circumstance has largely organized with anarchists for real world praxis in my area... yeah, real anarchists are indistinguishable from tankies to a lib. my anarchist comrades have questions about china (none really about vietnam/cuba, they read news) and they are largely fair and the ones that are misdirected they trust me to explain. left unity is entirely possible, our differences are not irreconcilable. while I believe that a revolution which lasts must necessarily create a dictatorship of the proletariat to correct the developmental course, the anarchist expression must persist in its nonviolent form as a conscience and reminder that a stateless and classless society is our ultimate goal

talked about this in a few grill streams. Doing actual work builds solidarity and brings people of different politics together, while bickering online does exactly the opposite.
I'm an anarchist and I would organize with MLs any day. It's about moving forward, not just in my super particular anarchist way. If that way is through MLism then that's the way I go. I support China/Cuba/etc because it's simply a better direction than other states, and definitely more aligned in my view. Sure not optimal in my eyes but I'd rather work towards that than yell incessantly at everyone and accomplish nothing.

when the revolution comes we will need special places where some people have to be educated in order to rethink some of their perceptions about the world, a re-education, if you will

also, these places should be comfortable and inviting, open spaces, perhaps like a camp? I haven't worked out the details yet

Calling anyone left wing an Anarchist was the “Tankie” of the 19th and early 20th century. We’ve just come full circle.

In South Africa "anarchist" is still way more of a slur than communist or Marxist lol. Political parties regularly make "anarchy" into a boogeyman.
We should start calling random democrats who are criticizing Biden “Tankies” even if they’re 60 year old grandmas in Virginia

The guy did a pretty much objectively brave and noble self-sacrifice in protest of a genocide our nation is arming, but his posts, man! His posts!

Also this is a strong piece of evidence for the definition of tankie as "traitor to the US / The West."

Also this is a strong piece of evidence for the definition of tankie as "traitor to the US / The West."
In current day online discourse that's exactly what it's used for.
The guy did a pretty much objectively brave and noble self-sacrifice in protest of a genocide our nation is arming
I'm glad you think the same because everyone I've talked to has had shitty things to say about it
- irl irl irl. I went to a vigil for Bushnell with like a hundred people today and it was really nice

HE DIDN'T DO IT SO YOU WOULD SYMPATHIZE WITH HIM YOU STUPID MOTHERFUCKER

Oh no! How could this have happened? Brb gonna go disavow all my anarchist friends over the support of relevant and contemporary Soviet Leader Iosif Steelin.

When we first federated I had a bit like this. I would try and explain to lemmygrad comrades, the more anarchists you have the more tankie you are.

Everyone left of Reinhard Heydrich is a fking tankie to these cretins

Oh no. Will I have to get a new membership card now?

Oh no! Not dark comments! We only support dark acts like genocide.

Can't hear the dialogue for the voice

and on the 7th day, biden synthesized anarcho stalinism, and it was good

i fuckin invented anarcho tankieism don't let biden steal my accomplishment
- no you didn't i did i said it in the first age

The blur could not have prepared me for this.

Anyone to the left of Hitler is a tankie.

Reagan is a tankie
~ SorosFootSoldier, 2024

the what now? can someone fill me in on what happened?

Aaron Bushnell, a former airforce-turned anarchist, self-immolated himself to protest Israeli embassy's support of genocide in Gaza...
Typical western 'leftist' with pro-west foreign policy calls him a mentally-ill tankie for supposedly supporting Hamas or any other anti-western force which is 'unreasonably' authoritarian... (I have not heard of his support for anti-west forces, let alone Hamas)
- People tracked down his Reddit account. He was a Chapo
- Not former, he was active duty air force (an IT guy though not flying or working on planes)
- thank you. That's one hell of a way to make it into the history books.

Thank you for welcoming me into the Zeitgist, Comrade.

just gave myself psychic damage but rummaging through his twitter posts.

“The white conservatives aren't friends of the Negro either, but they at least don't try to hide it. They are like wolves; they show their teeth in a snarl that keeps the Negro always aware of where he stands with them. But the white liberals are foxes, who also show their teeth to the Negro but pretend that they are smiling. The white liberals are more dangerous than the conservatives; they lure the Negro, and as the Negro runs from the growling wolf, he flees into the open jaws of the 'smiling' fox.” -- Malcolm X

« Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite » -Bismarck

ONE OF US

Tankie, in the internet era, always included anarchists. "Tankie" is simply a slur for someone on your left that you don't like. The people using it doesn't have the first idea about political theory or the history of the Hungarian counter-revolution or anything else. It's a silly word for silly libs.

Did anarchists do it or did tankies do it?