I called you a tankie on the internet therefore ipso fatso socialism is over.
this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2023
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So I used to spend a lot of time on R*ddit and I was an anarchist for a long time, so because of that you'd just get familiarised with the usernames of more active anarchists over time.
(This was to the point where one user, u/fuckeverythingever, who was a fairly prolific poster on that account [and prior ones that got banned but they had a distinct disposition and writing style so it was easy enough to recognise when one of his accounts would get banned and then a new account would spring up talking about the same things with the same mannerisms and I'd be like - oh hey, he's back!], went dark and then not long after news travelled around about the death of a young Portland anarchist named Sean Kealiher and while he never gave out his real name or his age online, it lined up well enough that I'm pretty well sure that was his account and that we knew each other online.)
It was a bitterly funny thing to me, when the term tankie started to enter mainstream discourse around the same time I became an ML, that I would see these slapfights break out in more mainstream subs and there'd be an anarchist account which I'd be able to recognise and some lib would be accusing them of being a tankie for being too far to the left of them.
Often I'd see it and be like "Hang on, I'm pretty sure I recognise that username..." so I'd check their posting history and sure enough it'd be yet-another instance of an anarchist being called "tankie" by a liberal.
The tankie-as-political-slur revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for human discourse.
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If I saw a tankie in real life I'd go right up to them and say "sir I like good things"
Make sure you bring your dad with you to help debate.
I bring my dad with me everywhere I go.
Ah, always ready to debate the wild tankies. I like your style.
Whenever we win against a tankie, my dad takes me for ice cream
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over.
One time a Hexbear said something mean to me and then I cammed myself. Sure showed that tankie!
one time *sniff* one time i s-saw a hexbear user and i s-said "g-good things are good" and they said "actually good things are bad" and i jus- i just man im fuckign crying just thinking about it i cant stpo crying
Counter point, Russia does capitalism just as bad as they did communism. If we did it in Murrica, we’d kick ass at it and be a shining beacon of socialism.
I want to congratulate you on the dumbest shit I've read all day before I ban you.
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i promise its information and not a meme, idk how to unblur it
I thought it dipped tremendously when the Soviet Union was officially dismantled
It dipped significantly but this graph is at a scale that includes Tsarist Russia where people were serfs with no access to medicine in a pre-industrial society. Having some extremely basic stuff like food and vaccines makes it virtually impossible to get that low again (unless you're being invaded by Nazis).
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What is materialism?
you're a stupid asshole, shut the fuck up liberal
Death to America
Even as a bit, this is cringe.
this is a bit, right? 
this is a bit, right? 
Radioactive levels of chauvinism, stick a burger in it shithead.
Honestly I'm a little ashamed at how many people on this website took the bait on this one. This is a good post.
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