They are completely fucked in the head. Bernie is calling for peace, against american interventionism and Trump dragging the US into war, i cannot understand what an issue they have with that, isn't that what they should want from him?
this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2026
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Tankies are supportive of trump since they believe that trump will bring the end of the US so Russia and China can swoop in as global powers
But Russia and China are not really communist. I don't understand how they can support those two governments. Karl Marx would not see either of them as true communist.
Neither are Tankies.
Tankies larp as communists, but they're just authoritarianists that deepthroat the boot.
Tankies operate on a very simple premise. west bad. that's it, that's as far as they think
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They want you to think they're leftists, but they're just cosplaying.
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Neither are the tankies
It is purely a religion for them
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You're close. Tankies are supportive of anything that lines up with the state-sponsored propaganda they consume.
They might "think" Trump will at least bring peace, during the election as a reason to not oppose him. They might hate Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, but love particular Russian-aligned US politicians who are ten times more "problematic" or pro-empire than those ones (or other particular ones they also do extensive hand-wringing about.) It's why they all support Maduro, it's why they hate Ukraine but support Palestine, it's why they love software like Lemmy but hate software like Wikipedia, it's why they are worried about green energy in Europe which isn't "practical" but also hate Biden because he didn't support clean energy enough, and so on and so on. Their collection of anecdotes and arguments is pretty much a perfect match for the Russian disinfo machine and there is literally no other thought process I can come up with that arrives at such a specific and self-contradictory assemblage of stances.
They're just dim enough to get taken in. What proportion of them are true disinfo posters, and what proportion are genuine people who are simply dim enough to get fooled and so self-select themselves into the community, I have no idea, although I would love to be able to find out somehow.
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Trump wants to work with dictators and is willing to work with Russia and China to divide up the world into their own areas of imperialistic influence. That's it, they are basically on the leash of troll factories when not members themselves. The only room for the left is the foreign state sanctioned left.
work with Russia and China to divide up the world into their own areas of imperialistic influence.
Ahh yes, the 1984 plan for the future. Glad I'll be dead, maybe shouldn't have had kids.
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Also, where are the trump/Epstein files? Still waiting for the real ones here
And the required explanation of redactions, and prosecutions for not complying with either?
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Where is the tankie part
Also Bernie is a bit old at this point
Op put a link to the hexbear thread in a comment
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pic and link to the thread
https://hexbear.net/post/7236437
Jesus fucking christ, one of them made a comic of Bernie with swastikas and shit saying HH. Bernie Sanders who is ethnically Jewish and has direct relatives murdered by the Nazis. What the actual fuck. These tankie fucks are truly some of the vilest shitbags out there. They can all get fucked.
you know you're from a tankie instance, right?
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Being against summarily murdering everybody who belong to a group you don't like totally makes you a fascist, of course. Whereas calling for indiscriminate murder is really really progressive.
But you don’t understand. It’s calling for a murder of someone they don’t like… That’s totally ok in their eyes.
And people like that have the nerve to call everyone a fascist. They’re using the word “fascism” so much that they need to create dumb nicknames and abbreviations for it.
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