Bro, liberal IS a race. By Dunkin’ on Liberals, you might as well be genociding Palestinians .

Look, how can we be tolerant if we don’t tolerate intolerance

-Genocide Joe probably

I “know” this is a metaphor, and I’m being a wet blanket about it, but I’m saying it anyway. There is no super hero to save anyone from anything, much less a society circulating the drain. The only way to make things better is by getting organized with your friends, family, and neighbours.

Be prepared (collectively) when things go to shit, and actively try to make them better. You can do very little alone, but together the choice is no longer between Hitler and Hitler, it’s change or stagnation. And neither genocide Joe or Cheetos man will lead to any positive progress.

Okay, no more wet blanket…

Cool, thanks for that. I think it’s interesting (academically) to see how the usage of words (e.g. tankie) have evolved.

I often see the term when someone questions whether or not something like Tiananmen square (from.your example) happened the way it is depicted in popular media. Questioning an event that (likely) is at least partially misrepresented due to it occurring in an “enemy” state should be a reasonable thing to do, especially when the state making the claims (USA) has a self reported record of interference in the affairs of others.

So then is tankie (supposed to be) used when someone uncritically supports a leftist state? The counter example would be (rightfully) pointing out a large prison population in North Korea as bad, while ignoring the larger prison population of the USA.

So tankie=uncritical support for NK/Cuba/china/USSR/Laos/Vietnam etc.

And bootlicker (to keep it balanced ;) = uncritical support for USA/Canada/Japan/France/Germany etc.

Is that about right?

What’s a tankie?