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   kali (kaliagainstallodds@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 06:19:46 JST kali

   amazing how all the #tankies and #jill stein people have been completely silent since #trump won.

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     ☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭ (radical_egocom@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 06:19:45 JST ☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭

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     I'm a Marxist-Leninist ("tankie"), and I voted for Harris and tried to convince as many people as possible to vote for her, not because I like her, but because it was either her or Trump, and as bad as Harris is, she would have been less bad for marginalized Americans and leftists than Trump.

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     kali (kaliagainstallodds@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 06:20:59 JST kali

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     @Radical_EgoCom that's not the definition of a tankie, look up the historical meaning.

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     ☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭ (radical_egocom@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 06:36:25 JST ☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭

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     "Tankie" is a pejorative used to refer to people who support certain authoritarian socialist states, such as the former Soviet Union, or contemporary countries like China or North Korea, and are often supportive of Marxist-Leninist ideology. And I'm aware of the historical meaning, originating in 1956 when Soviet tanks rolled into Hungary to suppress the uprising, but even then it was used to refer to Marxist-Leninist who supported the Soviet Union.