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The Republicans Should've Faced Way More Criticism During The 2024 Presidential Campaign (lemmy.ca)

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[–] 4am@lemm.ee 51 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It’s the lib version of “woke”; it’s not even used for its original meaning anymore

“All the tankie college kids who love Hamas lost Kamala the election” ok Kristen I’m sure they’re tankies. Please just finish watching your DVR of the Today show

[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Thank you for clarifying, because I was confused. Like... 'Are the Tankies in the room with us now, OP?'

What you're saying sounds correct, because I don't know anyone to the left of Harris who didn't recognize that Trump was worse. While I think that I might have one friend who refused to vote for her in a swing state, I think that the BlueAnon folks really misunderstood the actual consequences of losing support on the left.

It wasn't really, imo, that those folks wouldn't show up. The problem was that I think a lot of folks never realized how much young blue-haired leftists dragged Biden across the finish line in 2020 by knocking on doors and convincing their uncles to vote Dem. I said throughout the election that losing those people wasn't really a risk of losing their votes, it was a risk of losing the core enthusiasm and turnout organizing that Democrats had largely outsourced to Bernie Sanders' base. And I could be wrong, but all that I've seen seems to affirm that this is exactly what happened.

If someone has evidence otherwise, though. please let me know.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

What you’re saying sounds correct, because I don’t know anyone to the left of Harris who didn’t recognize that Trump was worse. While I think that I might have one friend who refused to vote for her in a swing state, I think that the BlueAnon folks really misunderstood the actual consequences of losing support on the left.

I do find it funny that .world and their ilk will swear up and down that Blue MAGA and BlueAnon aren't real things, but then will swear Tankies are a thing non-stop in American politics when none of them can agree on what they look like or do.

You ask a Republican to define woke, you wont get an answer beyond "Anything I don't like to the left of me." You ask a Democrat on here to define Tankie, you won't get an answer beyond "Anything I don't like to the left of me."

So long as the person doesn't defend authoritarianism and any hypocrisy of their preferred candidate, I'll consider them an ally to me.