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The term "tankie" was originally used by dissident Marxist–Leninists to describe members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) who followed the party line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Specifically, it was used to distinguish party members who spoke out in defense of the Soviet use of tanks to crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the 1968 Prague Spring uprising, or who more broadly adhered to pro-Soviet positions.

Seems pretty leftist to me. And it doesn't have any other baggage to it, like ableism, classism etc.

For contrast:

The term "nazi" had been in use, before the rise of the NSDAP, as a colloquial and derogatory word for a backwards farmer or peasant. It characterised an awkward and clumsy person, a yokel. In this sense, the word Nazi was a hypocorism of the German male name Igna(t)z... a common name at the time in Bavaria, the area from which the NSDAP emerged.

Which is a word I personally find very useful and will never stop using when appropriate.

Looks like LaRouche was regarded as the Stalinist type of socialist, a cult leader, and an anti-Semite. All three of those things also fit Caleb Maupin, a famous tankie. Many tankie collectives spring up around a single strongman in general. LaRouche believed AIDS was spread by insects, which harkens back to Lysenkoism.

If the shoe fits, right! Many nazis also get offended when called nazi.

Can you provide definitions for direct action and harm reduction?

LaRouchites are closely related to tankies iirc... Anyway

I could change the title to say "voting isn't direct action", but I think at that point it would be needlessly repetitive or wordy. Also, what is your definition for direct action which explicitly un-includes voting?

I was just thinking yesterday about how I was behind on the two podcasts I listened to. Thanks for the recommendations, though. I've heard good things and I think he's been on at least one.

Username checks out

I couldn't agree more. And that analogy regarding Handmaid's is brilliant.

I've told all my friends to only talk to me on Signal, and they both do.

Being correct on the internet. 100% so far

Sounds like we've found the TRUE enemy

🤝

I made the now-removed post first (in the other Ask Lemmy community), and somebody mentioned the "not voting" and suggested I repost it there, so I copied and pasted the text and title in.

And then I made this post, dumbly putting it in a different community without realizing it wasn't the same as the last one.

You are missing something; my other post got removed, and on Lemmy it looks like nobody (including me) can see those removed posts. This is in my DMs:

Your post has been removed.
You can view the removed post here: >https://lemmy.world/post/12649980

The reason he gave:
This is not a community for US Politics.

America is giving money to Israel which is genociding Palestinians in Gaza.

Unironically, this is a pretty good book. The "don't vote" crowd would hate it if they could read too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Fascism_(book)

I'm petty sure this whole comment is satire but

I liked the bit about poll watching. Is this a checklist for things that will be infiltrated for the next election?

I'm pretty much pulling from the stuff that right-wingers have talked about infiltrating from the lowest levels and saying we should do it first. Moms for Liberty is a fascist group with actual pull. Steve Bannon wants the fashies to join local boards.

Yeah I'm kind of surprised this is the complaint because the Biden admin has been particularly strong on workers rights issues

I swear I'm American (and it doesn't matter to me because hopefully the debate > my identity), but what would you clock me to be? Am I European or Canadian or something?

Cursed with the burden of eternal introspection, versus the fascist who can be content to act without thought.

"Liberal" is the only political pejorative I know

I made another post asking how people who wouldn't vote were planning on doing direct action, and I got criticized for not asking about the people who were... so I made this post.

I can't win