How Cowbee (prominent.ml Tankie) conflates the terms "communism" and "Tankie" to push the narrative that they're the only "true leftists/Communists" - Lemmy.World
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The term Tankie has a clear definition that Cowbee likes to ignore:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those > who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the > occurrence of the events thereof.

Join the lemmy.ml boycott today and help foster a better Lemmy-verse! No more posts, comments (except to counter their propaganda ofc!) or upvotes on any comms on the > Lemmy.ml instance! To make this easy you can do an instance block at Settings > Block Tab > Scroll to bottom > Input “lemmy.ml” and apply

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  • Cowbee [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Yea, I wear it with pride! Paradoxically their absolutely overblown hatred of me tends to draw more people over to socialism and away from anti-communism. Because they are so nakedly irrational, only those already hating me take it seriously, while alienating most people from their side.