Thank you I love these kinds of guys doing papers about cth and other subreddits and their little sociograms and tables with info from reddit analytics websites
Tankie is not a term for a hard line Stalinist. A tankie CAN be a hard line Stalinist. But it's more accurately described as anyone vaguely left wing who does not unquestionably believe State Department propaganda.
It used to be a hard line Stalinist descriptor though. Back in 2020 it might still have meant something like that. The word entered common public vocabulary pretty recently and has quickly devolved in meaning since then
The first time I saw Social Justice Warrior in use, it hadn't yet been appropriated by the right. At the time, it referred to what we today call an online larper or clout chaser with left aesthetics
Terminally lib meets the ivory tower (terminally academic). Remember, even posting good thoughts in a basement is a major power level move to these sorts
Yep, even the lurkers feeling or worse yet thinking 'ooh I sympathize with that but just that' or 'that's so true', gets them quivering in fear like watery jello. Its hilarious in a way since its not even the material, just thinking in their mind 'bad thoughts' is enough to be a threat to warrant millions upon billions to 'stop it', but alas the common lib metaphysical idealist mistake of assuming from thought comes action, when its not so simple A->B dichotomistic causality and all that, but if they understood that the conditions for scholars would be very different.