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The point of my post was to say that the word has taken on the role that used to be carried by "tankie". The actual meaning of the word is irrelevant, to libs it's just an intellectual-sounding pejorative to describe ostensibly leftist people they dislike for daring to criticise US politicians or foreign policy. Just like how tankie was divorced from it's actual meaning.
I just hope the next word is Trot or Ultra
I'm not disagreeing with you. I was just noticing some people replying that they didn't know what the word means. I would agree that the anti-US position is the correct position 95% of the time.
I believe that "ultra" has probably already reached the media-sphere. I've seen the word "ultra" used by liberals to describe socialists who are against participating in US electoralism. Also seen the phrase "purity test" used in a similar way.
"Trotskyist" would be funny but I think main stream media would view Trotskyism positively.
My bad, I thought you were explaining the concepts to me, even though you made it pretty clear you were responding to the vibe in the comments.
This is the verbiage version of the hantavirus cruise ship.
I think ""trot" could be seen as it's own thing by libs though.