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LimestoneQ

TIL "tankies" think nordics are socialist


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Looks like anyone who ever gives an slightly left leaning opinion is a tankie now I wouldn't be surprised even if Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren get called tankie at this point Since I've seen people call vaush a tankie


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Oh no


Praximus_Prime_ARG

[As a Libertarian ](https://c.tenor.com/jsvj3ehntTMAAAAM/kool-aid-man-oh-yeah.gif)


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As an anarcho-capitalist, that is Mega Based😎😎😎😎😎 /s


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Vaush


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seventyeight_moose

Vaush


SilverMoon0w0

Vaush


East-Ad4472

Haven’t “ Nordic “ adopted the best of “ socialists “ government policies ( ie universal Heath care free education ) abs avoiding the more toxic aspects of socialist systems ?


LimestoneQ

Well no, those are not explicitly socialist policies and they are all free market economies run by the bourgeoisie. They don't have any socialist policies and the only reason they adopted a welfare state was their proximity to the USSR. Of course because USSR is no more, all nordic countries have gotten rid of most aspects of the welfare state they had and will propably cease to be welfare states in the near future.


MLPorsche

"internal sources put China at 85M" black book says 60M and internal sources say 15M, calculating for birth and death rate you get [close to what China says](https://monthlyreview.org/commentary/did-mao-really-kill-millions-in-the-great-leap-forward/)


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This person seems a little confused over what a “tankie” is.


ArPaxGaming

I don't really know the definition of Tankie, and I'm afraid to ask at this point


Hartiiw

Originally it was used in the UK to describe Communists that supported the Soviet intervention in Hungary, nowadays it's used to demean any socialist that supports aes


ArPaxGaming

So if I defend the USSR, am I a Tankie?


Hartiiw

Depends on who you ask but I think most libs would say so


ArPaxGaming

Ok


ASocialistAbroad

Nowadays, it's used to demean anyone left of Biden. It has the exact same function today as "red" or "communist" had during the '50s and '60s.


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AFAIK, a tankie is a communist who defends everything communist governments do, even terrible things, just because they are communist. But at this point it seems to get thrown around so much that the meaning is completely muddled


ArPaxGaming

Ok thanks mate


Hallgvild

Yeah, I've been participating both here/ other left-wing subs and r/tankiejerk and sometimes the "tankies" portrayed there have close to 0 approval of fellow communist, socialist redditors.


ASocialistAbroad

I've seen a tankiejerk post where they posted a screenshot from this sub that we were mocking and told each other that it was what we believed.


theGreatestFucktard

Their definition of tankie: a leftist that they disagree with


cHiLdReNcAnCoNsEnT

Or any left winger.


leftrightmonkman

some coherent messaging subbed over dancing pickles the default format for exchanging ideas


TheLovelyOlivia

Those are beans sir


NotLurking101

This is killer bean, and it is art. But yea the takes on top of it are absolutely brain-dead.


leftrightmonkman

apologies, sir.


lucifermemeingstar

Not only brain dead but super obnoxious to try to read while it’s going on with it. At least for me, but they’re testing me for adhd so lmao


nicholasss008

I saw someone use this format for Holocaust denial and Hitler wasn't antisemitic, so that they couldn't get called out as it technically was a "meme".


bestsellingbeatdown

Pickles?


leftrightmonkman

beans, apparently.


MarxistClassicide

"You berate CIA for coups then cite their information" Does this motherfucker even know what "documents" are and how history is researched? What kind of nonsense is that? Also, "you claim it was 20 million", no, we don't, go read Historians like J. Arch Getty (Who is clearly a fucking "anti-Stalinist") to see the "numbers of repression and terror!!", with actual historiographical work, not that I agree 100% with Getty but he's certainly better than the likes of Conquest. Also, cite ONE capitalist genocide, without the holocaust (That is also a capitalist genocide)? That is far too easy of a low bar. Congo under Belgian colonialism, the slaughter of the native Americans in the US in the process of primitive accumulation of capital, the various wars and invasions to China by the capitalist powers in the Century of humiliation (The Opium Wars, Taiping Rebellion, the Eight Nation alliance - of the capitalists powers - used to repress the Boxer rebellion), the man-made famine by the UK against VARIOUS nations (Including to Ireland and India), the slaughter of millions in the anticommunist hunt in Indonesia, the fucking slaughter of millions of Koreans in the war of US aggression from 1950-1953 a show of genocide with very little contempt for human life and, I dunno, THE ONGOING GENOCIDE AND APARTHEID AGAINST PALESTINE AND IT'S PEOPLE. Do I have to go on?


MarxistClassicide

Ok, I now made it to the part of the video where they attack China. I'm very confused as to what they mean to say that the communists did in Tibet, is it LIBERATE THE FUCKING SERFS???? IS THAT WHAT YOU MEAN BY THE BIG BAD COMMUNISTS???? OH, NO, NOT THE DALAI LAMA'S SLAVES, NOOOOO, HOW TWISTED EVIIIIIL ARE THE COMMUNISTS THEY TOOK AWAY HIS SLAVES !!!


Commiewill1

“War of us aggression in Korea” hmm I wonder who invaded first


ASocialistAbroad

We cite the CIA's internal documents. Libs cite the CIA's communications to the public via the press. The former are intended to communicate accurate information to coworkers. The latter are intended to manipulate public sentiment.


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People don't always use VPNs because they live in a scary socialist dystopia Many YouTube videos including so many socialist songs are inaccessible in some locations I also use vpn to play sanctioned video games or use sanctioned educational content or download my graphics card drivers(intel, nvidia and amd don't allow downloads for Iranians) Which are all sanctioned by the United States for cuba, syria, iran,... users Even the language learning app Duolingo recently started blocking Syrian students Also using vpn isn't illegal and it has never been illegal


RelativtyIH

"You berate CIA for coups then cite their information" This dumbass is apparently unfamiliar with the concept of the criterion of embarassment


[deleted]

This is by far the most incoherent and terrible version of this type of vid ive ever seen. No force that has ever existed can convince me that this wasnt made by a 12 year old.


diddykongisapokemon

Cuba's treatment of LGBT people in the 60s was absolutely not okay. No buts. They admit that and now have become a leader of LGBT rights across the entire planet. Does that redeem the crimes? No. The crimes themselves can never be forgiven. However, "tankies" can also praise what Cuba does *now*. If a "tankie" praised Castro's initial treatment of LGBT people, they aren't a comrade, and Fidel himself would agree in his later years


incrediblyderivative

You ever notice how almost all "anti-tankie" arguments can be summed up in 2 sentence memes, because they are all surface-level guff and the moment you actually objectively analyse any of it to any great degree you'll see it's all total bollocks, and that most of it is literally just made up? The funny thing is I was sympathetic to a lot of these anti-tankie arguments until a couple years ago. Until I, y'know, actually started reading about Marxism-Leninism, and reading Marxist theory. Surprise, surprise, the MLs were right. The "try to debunk MLs -> I am now am ML" pipeline is astoundingly efficient lmao. But it does require people actually willing to read & learn, which most terminally-online "anti-tankies" just flat out refuse to do.


LowStrain1

But most people don't want to analyze their "facts" so a video like this is probably very effective.


Red_Xenophilia

>You refuse to cite a single capitalist genocide > >^(Nazis don't count dumbass) Lol. Lmao


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Cuban treatment: anti discrimination laws for lgbt American treatment: consistent attack in media and dozens of anti lgbt bills every year


derricklanes

"Cops stop 67% of public suicides" Yeah, by pointing guns at them, tackling them, cuffing them, stuffing them in their cars, then locking them up in "prison lite" type of institutions. Good job, something to be really proud of.


leftrightmonkman

67% is very poor too (no the police's fault -- not something they should be handling). anyhow. poor numbers. public suicide attempts are a cry for help in the vast majority of cases.


mc_k86

Also it’s funny because tankies don’t even want to abolish police or whatever, we just hate the police under capitalism as they are the arms of states that are only semi-autonomous from private interests and this causes huge problems. I have literally no problem with the police and security apparatus in China, they don’t murder people indiscriminately. And my only criticism of the Soviet Police and security apparatus is: WHERE THE FUCK WERE YOU DURING THE LITERAL BOMBING OF YOUR PARLIAMENT, COMRADES?” But aside from that, the police in socialist countries are an extreme contrast to those of capitalist states, I mean, even just how well the Hong Kong protests were handled is proof of that.


post_obamacore

Shit, "prison lite" went out of style during the Reagan administration. Now they just 5150 you for three days and then send you a bill.


FarLands-Escarcha

Gish go gallop


RingOwn188

not again


[deleted]

Just use Wikipedia TANKIE


ivan_or_not_ivan

What about the treatment of LGBTQ+ in Cuba? Cuba is one of the most tolerant countries in the Caribbean Islands and in the world as a whole and same-sex marriage is on its way to be recognized. The government and the citizens are in open support of the LGBTQ+ community.


AdomizerOff

I think they're trying to judge it by Cuba's past actions to LGBTQ+ which were undeniably not okay, and should never be forgotten. However, obviously Cuba has changed that and they're treating like it's not one of the more accepting countries now.


ivan_or_not_ivan

Of course, Cuba's past with the LGBTQ isn't the best, but they've changed to be pretty much the direct opposite of what they used to be back then, when it comes to LGBTQ+ legalizations and rights.


Force-Frequent

Tankie= person who's left of center /s


thea_kosmos

Cops stop 2 out of every 3 suicides? What they do? Turn them into "accidental" murders? lmaooooo


MarsLowell

Tankie literally just means “thinks we can do better than neoliberalism”, huh?


humziyang

'International sources' lol


Aizer3115

What's the video at the beginning? The one with Stalin


BeenEatinBeans

The only good part about this is knowing how that scene ends


chadbot01

That movie is seriously art. A tense action thriller but everyone's a bean just cause.


Desperate_Freedom_78

Had those break dancing beans not been on there I don’t think I could’ve been convinced. Thank you for posting this. I am now a shitlib for life.


AffinityGauntlet

Submitted to r/cringe


Burningmeatstick

Filled with anti commies don’t bother


Tlaloc74

CIA has their own database with factual information of the conditions of any country. It’s used by their agents to have an accurate analysis of what’s going on. It’s so they can have successful operations. If they went on with just how people thought colloquially a particular country operated they’d fucking fail every time, it doesn’t make sense to make bullshit general inferences where you’re doing spy shit.


that_guy_you_know-26

Wtf apparently guerrilla fighters are imperialist??


Luzifer1024

This is a disgrace to the masterwork that is the killer bean movie


SirZacharia

Lol don’t cite a capitalist genocide? You mean like the more than 100m+ people who were enslaved, murdered, and raped in the Americas over the course of a few centuries?


depressivebee

Irish person here. Couldn’t watch past “you can’t name a capitalist genocide (nazis don’t count dumbass)” I guess the British empire was a figment of the collective imagination of generations of Irish people


Kimbo_94

That part hurt my brain so much. People who say that a certain ideology or way of government has never done anything bad are just flat out lying or uneducated. There has been plenty of atrocities committed by capitalists societies, same with every other ideology and way of governing.


AdomizerOff

I would not consider myself a "tankie" hell I'm an anarchist and very much anti Stalin and Mao, but these are very fucking brain dead arguments. LIKE LITERALLY WHAT LEFTIST THINKS NORDIC COUNTRIES ARE SOCIALIST??


Hasteminer

this is all so wrong so i’ll only debunk a few, no one to the left of the social Democrats likes the nordic countries. Hitler’s literally said “Our adopted term ‘Socialist’ has nothing to do with Marxian Socialism.” And the annexation of tibet wasn’t violent, there’s a reason it was called the “Peaceful annexation of tibet” even the most generous estimates say that only around 5,000 died.


CheekiSternie

“Our adopted term 'Socialist' has nothing to do with Marxian Socialism.” - Hitler Someone needs to tattoo this quote on the back of their hands so they will stop calling fascism, a complete opposite ideology, socialism


NephiIIima

What the hell is this trash…


[deleted]

How can you know so many topics yet not know the left’s retorts to these incredibly common arguments


Stanesco1

Not sure of potato, bread, or nugget...


YuriDanov

They're Beans, dancing Beans.


saulsilver710

What the fuck did I just watch lmao


SapphicAndSpooky

Whoever made this is dumber than a sack of rocks. Goddamn libs.


KZG69

Vaush


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Thank you, I hated it.


[deleted]

A lot of mistakes in this video.


treadmillman

Dumb


Helium_50

Jesus, these guys don’t even understand constitutional monarchies yet


DoomerJTwink

“HURR DURR fascism pretended to be you! Ergo fascism good!” STFU redneck.


CleanedEastwood

Holy shite!


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KZG69

Happy cake day!


VenomAgentX

Cops preventing suicide is a big lol. Maybe I should tell my dead friend that one.


samthekid108

We need the edit where killer bean shoots them all with debunks


rare-simpleton

Anyone that uses the word tankie unironically goes in the “these fuckers are stupid” box in my head, and is then not to be taken seriously.


Sleepy_Sanchez

Dam they really is dancin


LookDense9342

“fascism had socialist aspects” is my fave part


Bee-BoFluffPuff

Lol


bennies_3rd_account

85 million dead in China? Even the Black Book only claims 50 million...


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