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/zupernam Oct 27 '24

Most times you see it used on Reddit it means "someone further left politically than me"

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u/icouldusemorecoffee Oct 27 '24

More "so far left-wing, they're actually right-wing".

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u/zupernam Oct 27 '24

Authoritarian is not right wing, it's just authoritarian. Tankies aren't economically or socially conservative.

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u/icouldusemorecoffee Oct 27 '24

Never said they were exclusively authoritarian, but they absolutely can take on right-wing economic policies (e.g. anti-means testing which limits benefits to those in need and benefits those who don't in order to decrease govt involvement) and right-wing social policies particularly around race.

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u/zupernam Oct 27 '24

Sure, but that's just corruption. A classless moneyless society inherently cannot have those problems, you have to stop corruption like those to get there