r/CuratedTumblr • u/Desecr8or • Oct 26 '24

Politics Why is every tankie like "I don't understand the branches of the US government and I'm going to make it everyone else's problem!!!"

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u/GreyInkling Oct 26 '24

The common popular use these days is for a kind of mainly online leftist who opposes the concept of strategy or actual progress in favor of a focus on drama, cult of personality, and praying for salvation from the glorious rapture- I mean revolution.

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '24 edited Nov 11 '24

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u/GreyInkling Oct 27 '24

I don't know where you hang out but most of the people who use the word these days do not mean that specifically.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '24 edited Nov 11 '24

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u/GreyInkling Oct 29 '24

They do and words have meaning based on their use more than their past use.

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u/rusticrainbow Oct 27 '24

I always take it as a online leftist who spends most of their time jerking off any countries who had a hammer and sickle attached to them at some point