"Pinko commie" for the 21st century
this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2023
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Hexbear eat Lemmy already. I want my fucking username back
Leftist I dont like
woke
The polite liberal version of saying anti-white
Radlibs like to call themselves communists on occasion now or at least socialist and they want to distance themselves from communists
It means I'm going to roll my eyes at you if you use the term in my org
fuck tankies 
Does you driver's license have an endorsement for this 
? Then you're a tankie.
Anyone with policy positons that aren't generally safe towards neoconservatism?
Tankie refers to Stalinists, like the original tankie who happened to be an arch-Stalinist - Khrushchev /s
In an etymological sense, the word jumped the shark a long time ago but now it's reaching new depths of meaninglessness that it really has become a floating signifier these days.
I think before the Russia/Ukraine war, it meant anyone who was to the left of democratic socialism and/or supported or even just critically supported AES states. Since the war it pretty much means anyone left of center who doesn’t lock NATO boot
Someone who drives a tank
It means you have enough gas for a round trip!
it just means pinko. it's an uncomplicatedly anti-communist epithet. some confused self-identified leftists still use it and they need to be gently corrected or else disregarded completely.
stalin shouldn't have stopped at berlin
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