• eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    no mistake made; leftists are the only ones whose words and actions are one-in-the-same and they’ve always advocated for the isrealis in american tanks to stop blowing up the gazans and the people who hate this are the ones who call them tankies for it.

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      3 days ago

      I’m saying the reason people might get called a tankie is not because they support Gaza. In fact, I’ve never seen that accusation in relation to this conflict. Rather, it’s because tankies support countries like Israel in other conflicts. So it’s almost the exact opposite of what you say. Campism is the problem here because it forces them to defend the indefensible.

      By the way, tankie is not just a pejorative for leftist. It’s a term created by leftists to criticize members of the movement who are perceived to have abandoned the core goal of human liberation that being a leftist has always been about. Maybe some liberals use it wrongly sometimes but it was never about them.

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        3 days ago

        it’s because tankies support countries like Israel in other conflicts.

        there must be a typo in here somewhere

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              10 hours ago

              You define tankie then. I’m a communist and think Russia is an Imperialist state and therefore bad. I’ve seen others say that it had never done anything bad and Ukraine was asking for it.