• Matty Roses@lemmy.today
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      6 hours ago

      which is why idiot liberals now call anyone not subscribed to continuing their decades of failure a tankie

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      21 hours ago

      We all know how much they hate libs, it’s their most-used pejorative. To be fair though, establishment liberals (eg Schumer) are part of the reason we’re in this mess… I can’t say I hold them in high regard either.

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        21 hours ago

        Yes but most tankies seem to hate centrist neoliberal Dems worse than they hate maga republicans. And they consider DSA to be centrist neolibs like the rest if the democratic party.

        They’d rather see a trump third term than a Dem or even DSA president.

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          They don’t really, it’s just that’s what you see in leftist spaces. Really they are just state-sponsered shit-stirrers interested in driving as many wedges between Americans (not exclusively, but America is a big target for geopolitical reasons) as they can. They are worse than zealots; they are unprincipled opportunistic FUD machines.

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            6 hours ago

            Yeah, that’s the only explanation that makes sense. No one could be as irrational as tankies.

            Oh wait, maga fascists are that irrational and it seems genuine.

            I’m tired, boss…

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              5 hours ago

              MAGA is a mix of true believers and grifters. I think that’s true of all cults, MAGA’s just the one I have the most firsthand experience with. Sometimes it’s hard to tell which is which. Generally, the true believers are the ones losing money and the grifters are the ones gaining, but occasionally a true believer makes it to the top. I think Marjorie Taylor Greene is one example, though IDK I don’t know her personally so she might just be a competent grifter.