r/ between the ages of 19 and 6

That certainly explains why it's 's favourite subreddit

Whatever happened to that communist kid on youtube, did he become yet another lib?

Yeeeeeeep :(

Don't forget the Swastika and SS tattoos plus a MAGA hat!

Ah, but you have to understand, Nazi Germany's and the Soviet Union's governments both did stuff, so they're basically the same.

Also wearing a maga hat lol

This is a shitty edit of some anti-alt right cartoon from like 2015

https://www.yadvashem.org/artifacts/featured/liberation/diary-auschwitz.html

Something extremely astonishing was then seen in Auschwitz: the ‘Häftlings' (prisoners) who had tasted too much vodka staggered through the streets, to the delight of the Soviet soldiers.

And they, who had already divested themselves of their white capes, astonished us with their beards, their mustaches. The Red Star stood out on their fur hats. And there were female soldiers, similar to the male soldiers, armed as they were, and driving mules hitched to sleds. They surrounded us, as surprised as we were. And already we were "tovarish" (comrades).

… For two days I took advantage of the sunshine to go and wash in the snow. I was rather weak, but how can I describe my joy that once again I was free, that once again I could walk without holding myself at attention among the Blocks. That it was good to sit myself down on one of the benches on the perimeter. This was the first time that something like this had happened to me, and in the observation towers it was Soviets who were standing guard."

Alexander Mayer

I agree with all the other comments here but I want to add one more to it.

It's nationalism. Mostly american nationalism, but also a "western" nationalism that is basically "i support the imperial core", aka the "international community".

Everyone that properly gives up on nationalism and becomes an internationalist does not fall into this group's mindset. There are internationalists that disagree with us on many things but they don't see us with this childish analysis of good vs evil (where the US and the imperial core are on the side of good).

This nationalism that resides deep down is also a major difference between scratched libs becoming fascists vs scratched libs that do not. Also a major aspect between those who "support Ukraine"(nationalism) and those who want an end to the war.

it's definitely western anti-communism. calling them left is honestly giving them too much credit. they're against transphobia (because for better and worse, white USian transfemininity is culturally linked to spending a lot of time posting online). i don't think they have any particularly radical anti-racist, anti-capitalist, or feminist analysis outside of that.

The term originated from those who followed the party line of the Soviet Union. Specifically, those who supported the use of tanks to quell the 1956 Hungarian Revolution were the original tankies. Today, it is used by liberals in the same way that a boomer would call Democrats "commies".

It is typically used as an insult by liberals who believe that they are the most progressive people on the planet. Instead of facing the harsh realities that they support fascist and imperialist policies or that someone else might be to the left of them politically, they instead berate anyone who calls them out on it.

If you don't support NATO, you're a tankie. If you have anything good to say about China, you're a tankie. If you don't think France should invade Niger - tankie. If you oppose sending tanks to Ukraine - TANKIE.

It's both anti-communism and political illiteracy. I would add that people are generally averse to believe their neighbors and leaders are less evil than foreigners, especially because both cheaper consumer goods and easy credit provide the impression of capitalist freedom and liberal democracy being better alternatives than socialist equality and a socialist state.

"might makes right" as it were. The grievances against capitalism by r/196 and other western Berniecrats are because the superprofits and welfare aren't being distributed as they once were to our antecedent generations. Using violence or political activism outside of voting or light protesting is out of the question because their standard of living is still bearable and preferable than to fight and die for, what liberals-masquerading-as-socialists effectively want, a welfare state.

They just lazily repurposed an anti-fascist meme lmao

The original meme is "kick Nazis out of punk"