• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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    1 year ago

    Do you know what the word tankie means?

    On lemmy it means anyone to the left of Joe Manchin and always has.

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      1 year ago

      Tankies are the left tip of the horseshoe in horseshoe theory. a.k.a. Marxist–Leninists, or authoritarian communists

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        1 year ago

        Yes, except on lemmy, where it means anyone to the left of Manchin.