Slop.

Tante Regenbogen saying the quiet part out loud

If anti-communist means anti-tankie, then I am proud to be a left anti-communist.

I'm not and never will be sitting in St. Petersburg.

It's LENINGRAD

oh tactically they/theming is a classic move

Everyone is an anti-millennial boomer now, it's such a insult

Yeah I'm rushin. Rushin to the pub for an Irish breakfast combo and a bloody mary

(literally I need to get some chow and I just got paid so I'm gonna treat myself. They do a tofu scramble with some sort of veggie sausage and their Bloody Mary mix is )

Josip Broz Teto

Thank you! Teto also brings me much joy

Someone literally got bullied off of it this morning for using Nazi dog whistles.

link please. I would love some slop to enjoy with my morning coffee (beer that I didn't finish last night).

Thank you!

Back when tankie got popularized as a term outside of the radical left it was equal parts hilarious and painful seeing libs deploy it against oldhead anarchists that I knew of online. It must have been infuriating for them to have it turned on them like that.

These days when I'm outside of explicitly radical spaces online and I see a progressive advocating for anything beyond peaceful assemblies and performance, when they start advocating for actual activism that can achieve things, sometimes I larp as a turbolib and I try policing them by calling them a tankie and telling them shit like "We can't just physically oppose law enforcement agents because that will make our side look bad by not following procedure within the democratic system" and "we have to wait this out until the next election but when it does come around in 3 years we can use all the energy we have built up to campaign hard but in the meantime we should call and write to our representatives to ask them politely if there's anything that we can do".

This might seem odd but it's me doing wrecker shit within progressive lib spaces by shifting the leftmost acceptable boundary of politics within that space slightly so that the people who are advocating for things that work will stop trying to appeal to the impassive, performative progressives they are surrounded with and start feeling like an outsider to those spaces by causing an artificial faultline within the group, so that the furthest left of them feel alienated and politically adrift from those spaces because suddenly I'm getting support for saying "Um, yikes! Settle down there, tankie. We just have to ride this out and do nothing or otherwise the optics will be bad, okay?" and meanwhile they are screaming out that something has to be done urgently. Aggravating that tension within different factions of the space and crystallizing it by putting it to words while encouraging people to rally on either side of it means that those furthest left will be more inclined to start breaking free of the anti-tankie programming ("I'm not a big bad evil tankie by arguing that we need to get armed and resist ICE and start a general strike so why are people agreeing that I'm acting like a tankie??") and they get firsthand experience at how that term is used to police the left. With a little luck they will become desensitized to it and to learn to hate the libs who deploy it because... libs care more about optics than they do about what's being done right in front of them

I've used exaggerated terms here to illustrate the point but I know how to use pitch-perfect wording and terms from their own political discourse to get them to believe I'm genuinely one of them since they listen to phrasing and the cheap "x is like voldemort" superficial political analysis (using the term analysis very loosely here) instead of thinking in terms of genuine political principles. Because they're libs.

At worst it causes the libs to fight amongst themselves but, ideally, it makes the furthest left of their numbers start peeling themselves away from liberalism and toothless progressive politics.