Tankies: A Data-driven Understanding of Left-Wing Extremists on Social Media - GNET
Tankies: A Data-driven Understanding of Left-Wing Extremists on Social Media - GNET
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However, when it comes to everyday societal challenges that are usually points of interest for the left wing—like policing, climate change, healthcare, housing, and workers’ rights—tankies seem less engaged.
Really huge "I clicked on a couple of memes and did no further investigation" energy radiating from this sentence.
They can't identify "tankies" when they're engaged on those topics because the only method they have of defining a tankie is as someone that supports AES and opposes the state department's line.
Everyone who isn't visibly a tankie is just a regular marxist to them. And everyone who is saying anything the supports AES or opposes hegemony is a tankie and not a regular marxist.
They don't realise they're the same thing behaving differently in two different settings. Marxists aren't ranting about aes and stalin when talking about unionisation ffs.