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minus-squaremanofnyan@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoLoaded question is going to get loaded answers but: Marxist-identifying people who like to glorify oppressive regimes, usually Stalin’s USSR and Mao’s China. Fascists disguised as communists.
minus-squareTimeNaan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 year agoAnd what makes you think this meme has anything to do with them? You know that tankies are a small minority in global northern leftism?
minus-squaretrainsaresexy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoI could see people who criticize the west being called tankies, but it seems like a reach to infer that criticism of capitalism means praise of whatever China is doing.
Loaded question is going to get loaded answers but:
Marxist-identifying people who like to glorify oppressive regimes, usually Stalin’s USSR and Mao’s China. Fascists disguised as communists.
And what makes you think this meme has anything to do with them?
You know that tankies are a small minority in global northern leftism?
I could see people who criticize the west being called tankies, but it seems like a reach to infer that criticism of capitalism means praise of whatever China is doing.