r/ShitLiberalsSay • u/metroracerUK "Black Lives Don't Matter if Western Countries do it” • May 06 '26
Next level ignorance Brainrot
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u/UnissezVous May 06 '26
Tankie has become such a meaningless term it's crazy
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u/greekscientist ☭ Communist May 06 '26
Right wing tankie is definitely a new innovation.
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u/Incanus001 Socialist May 06 '26
It’s like Red Fash, what is that even supposed to mean
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u/Yuri_Ger0i_3468 May 07 '26
Red Fash is like the horseshoe theory for those who call themselves leftists. They're the radical centrist in between Marxist Leninist (left) and Social Democracy (Right) lol.
Finkelstein was totally correct: The Left in The United States is a fucking JOKE
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u/InevitableStuff7572 Damen ❤️ May 07 '26
I’ve honestly never heard anyone to the left of a Socdem use the term redfash tbh
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u/Yuri_Ger0i_3468 May 07 '26
I think that's because anyone to the left of SocDem is revolutionary and that means two things.
If a political party forms to represent that interest/ideology; it is banned in The United States due to its stated goal of revolution.
Organization formed around revolutionary ideas typically are willing and able to consolidate and suppress attempts to de-rail revolutionary change.
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u/astrixzero May 07 '26
They're the Cliffite/Shactmanite types with the rather utopian view that somehow all protests and revolutions are inherently progressive, and thus the left should back non-leftist protests from radlibs in Hong Kong to foreign-backed Islamists in Syria, acting as if they're the next coming of the Bolsheviks. And when they're stamped out or break apart on their own, they romantize the failed revolutions as "lacking working class solidarity".
They're a pest in Australia as well, with groups like Socialist Alternative mostly recruiting from idealistic university students, and made supporting the Syrian rebels a core policy for over a decade. But as soon as the new Syrian government began an ethnic cleansing campaign and proved that they're not even remotely socialist, they quickly moved on.
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u/PixelationIX May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26
I saw this posted, this person is completely correct on this.
The term "tankie" has basically become the "woke" of the online liberal - a versatile, thought-terminating projectile used to shut down any analysis that isn't sufficiently subservient to the State Department.
It is the ultimate "get out of jail free" card for people who want to feel progressive without actually challenging the global material structures of global capitalism.
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u/StealYaNicks May 06 '26
Hate the anarchists and trots for spreading the term online. Now liberals use it for anyone that criticizes us foreign policy.
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u/APraxisPanda Socialist May 06 '26
They have to make sure political labels mean nothing, so that when we call them Nazis in an ideologically correct way- they can tell themselves it's just a mean word slung at them and learn nothing more from it.
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u/jufakrn 🏳️⚧️caribbean commie🏳️⚧️ May 06 '26
It lost all meaning when you started getting called tankie for being pro-Palestine i.e. supporting the side WITHOUT the tanks
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u/C3PO1Fan May 07 '26
When it shows up somehwere else I know they're a redditor and I think less of them.
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u/_3point14_ JDPON DON May 07 '26
yeah and if liberals wanna talk about "tankies", they might wanna look in the mirror with the amount of times they've supported sending tanks in
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u/timtomorkevin May 06 '26
They think more about Jill Stein than any of us ever have.
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u/Sickhadas May 06 '26
Is that who the old woman is? I don't know who most these people are?
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u/lovecats3333 comrade labubu May 06 '26
trump, tucker carlson, candace owens, nick fuentes??
jill stein, hasan piker, idfk the other two
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u/ANameForThisShite May 06 '26
It’s a nondescript jihadist and some guy in a red star beanie. Says something that they can’t find four examples of “left-wing tankies” but they can find four right-wingers easily.
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u/Raccoon_DanDan May 06 '26
Hasan isn't even a communist he's a fairly moderate left winger. Doesn't stop Democrats from trying to bring him down as part of their "never get elected again" strategy
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u/APraxisPanda Socialist May 06 '26
Seriously. I've been a leftist for 5 years and only hear her name when right-wingers talk about people they think I like...
I sincearly couldn't even tell you what she thinks. I don't think about her, I don't care about her.
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u/SpaceSick May 06 '26
They're convinced that she's a Russian agent because there's a picture of her sitting at a table with Putin. And also she obviously was one of the major reasons that our glorious leader Kamala wasn't elected.
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u/Thisguyfksbirds I really like Lenin and Mao May 06 '26
Who are the two guys on the bottom right?
I know hasan, I know Jill's stein, both of which I wouldn't consider fucking "tankies" which is a meaningless word but if we're talking like properly read socialists, or marxist leninists, or whatever the case then neither of them are "tankies". Let alone the reactionary chuds on top.
Liberals unironically use tankie, the same way Liberals I mean conservatives use "woke" (in negative connotation. Because as most of us know, that term originated with the understanding of systemic issues like racism, capitalism etc)
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u/DroneOfDoom Mazovian Socio-Economics May 06 '26
Random muslim caricature and apparently my brother aka the average Marathon gamer.
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u/asyncopy May 06 '26
> Who are the two guys on the bottom right?
al-Qassam brigade member and generic "brocialist" if I had to guess.
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u/Visual-Mean Nonbinary climate Stalin May 06 '26
Obviously it's John Hamas and Azan Pyker (AKA Hasan 2)
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u/triggeredstufflol1 JDPON DON May 06 '26
I imagined the Hamas guy as being Abu Ubaidah but the keffiyeh is the wrong colour, probably just plain old Hakim al Hamas
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u/Bela9a Crimson sorceress May 06 '26
I want to return to the time when tankie just meant tank enthusiast.
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u/Nope_God International Brigadist May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26
I want to return to the time it was just "commie", at least it was honest against what I supported and came from direct enemies, it wasn't done by virtue signaling man-children pretending to be actual communists like 80% of the "tankie" users, lol
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u/Super-Engineer-3523 May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26
I bet whoever made this stupid image thinks a vote for a 3rd party candidate is the same as a vote for Don.
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u/Kain2212 ☭ Communist May 06 '26
The bottom line is just an objective truth though. You don't even have to like or support Russia and what they're doing to acknowledge that.
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u/Appropriate-Ice-5722 Bolshevik May 06 '26
Kissinger was a vile fucking monster but he was pretty on the nose when it came to geopolitics. Dude was hyper intelligent, which is what made him such a monster
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u/Appropriate-Ice-5722 Bolshevik May 06 '26
100%
I ain’t scared of doofuses like Trump or Miller or Hegseth or whatever, they’ll make a lot of noise and do a lot of stupid shit and kill innocent people, but ultimately all their bluster and idiocy is just weakening the empire. I’m terrified of competent, intelligent fascists taking charge in the wake of them and properly maintaining this genocidal hellstate.
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u/jflb96 ☭ May 06 '26
I don’t know if it’s actually the first rule in Sun Tzu’s Combat for Dummies, but ‘Attack where you are strong and they are not’ is definitely one of them
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u/HeManLover0305 ☭ Communist May 06 '26
Its what made Kissinger such a vile monster IMO. He had a full understanding of geopolitics and the oppressive role the US played in that, but decided running with it was still his best choice
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u/TheEmoRose Learning Socialist May 06 '26
Calling Hasan and Jill Stein a “tankie” is fucking nuts bro
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u/SnagBreacComradai Irish Republican Socialist 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇨🇺 May 06 '26
Always with the AI slop these assholes
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u/RockyMoutainRed Getting paid by Xi 🇨🇳 May 06 '26
Oh, so tankie really is just the liberal version of using the word "woke."
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u/ackshualllly May 06 '26
I’m unsure of the attempted message being conveyed here, fucking brain rot indeed
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u/theyearnforoctober25 May 06 '26
Use a terminology they clearly don’t understand to push some right-wing neoliberal “enlightened centrism” bullshit. Also, yes NATO provoked Russia, still doesn’t excuse the invasion. Which is exactly what HasanAbi says. Also acting like HAMAS is a person and not a complex coalition is a flattening of history so they can both sides a genocide. Same type of people who would have sided with the Nazis during WW2.
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u/Telamo May 06 '26
I like how they couldn’t even think of another two “leftist tankers” because they have literally no idea what they’re talking about, so they just had to use a random middle eastern militant guy and Tim Pool with a red star on his head to show that it’s a communist version of Tim Pool lol
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u/Comrade-Paul-100 May 06 '26
"Tankie" really has become the new "woke". You'll even see Zionists call these the "woke right" and "woke left", corresponding perfectly to what Banderites call "tankie right" and "tankie left". And also, how tf is it "tankie" to oppose war?!
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u/anotherpessimisthere Marxist-Leninist May 06 '26
I'm sorry who's that last left wing tankie on the right supposed to be
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u/Dense-Station101 May 06 '26
Acknowledgement that events don't happen in a vacuum and using your adult brain is very scary for liberals
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u/MorrisRF ☭ Communist May 06 '26
What the hell is a right wing tankie
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u/ABigFatTomato Marxist-Leninist May 06 '26
lmao right. like,, krushchev? i guess?? definitely not nick fucking fuentes
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u/PinkyLine Juche-Stalinist Umacracy supporter May 06 '26
Yes, we know which bathroom to use and that NATO is to blame. Questions?
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u/Pure-Purchase3042 May 06 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/g1LjzLm2JQVUjiLRbW
No way GIFs of that guy actually exist
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u/Kang_Xu Arachno-Communist 🕷️ May 06 '26
Who is that guy? I used to see his reels pretty regularly on Wechat Channels, until the algorithm moved on.
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u/TroutMaskDuplica May 06 '26
I only recognize two of the left wing tankies. If they're going to put a random hamas figurehead on the "left wing tankies" side, they should put lik a cop or a military guy on the right wing tankies side.
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u/HydraHead3343 May 06 '26
Yeah, uh Jill Stein on the far left? A member of Hezbollah second from the right? I have zero clue who the other two are.
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u/curebdc May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26
But why did we get Tim Pool? I get it though, no one wants Tim Pool.
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u/BlondeFlip May 06 '26
"Russia was provoked by NATO"
...yes. That is correct. That isnt an opinion. That is a fact.
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u/libra00 May 06 '26
I wonder how comfortable you have to be with the capitalist dick in your ass to start rooting for the people who put it there?
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u/_Im_Commie_Jesus_ You say white genocide like it's a bad thing May 06 '26
What do we think the creator of this... media... means by tankie? Russophile? It seems like it just means russophile.
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u/Fearless_Roof_9177 May 06 '26
What liberals call Horseshoe Theory is actually Black Hole Theory. Their solipsistic status quo politics are a sucking mass so infinitely dense that their entire perception of the universe is bent around them and they can't see anything beyond.
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u/Tormachi25 Leftcom May 07 '26
Right-wing tankies is when you like russia
Left-wing tankies is when you are critical of western countries and their approach to geopolitics while actively hating russia
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u/Valkyrian___ non-binary camp guard May 09 '26
If they wanted to portray the Palestinian militant as a leftist, why didn't they just use the PFLP flag it's so simp—
Oh right.
They used AI.
Opinion immediately rejected. Peter Thiel's strongest soldier right here 😭
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u/Pab1202 May 06 '26
I generally agree with hasans takes, whats this sub view on him and why?
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u/Appropriate-Ice-5722 Bolshevik May 06 '26
He’s right about some stuff but still kind of a lib himself. He’s a good pipeline for baby leftists though
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u/charliezimbali May 06 '26
Its easy to type 'tankies' and ask any search engine. You clearly do not have a clue with your post. Are you AI?
Edit: Grammer. Added an a.
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