• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 hours ago

    I didn’t say what I believed, I was discussing the usage of the term tankie in mainstream media. If it were used, I would assume western media would voice it with the red scare propaganda that is always pushed. With the media conglomerates jostling to find a way to fall in line with Trump’s administration I figure they’d label anything left of them a violent communistic extremest group.

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      9 hours ago

      The average lib who uses tankie has no idea of its origins, and it’s origins are now so irrelevant as it has nothing to do with the groups that are labeled. Only liberals bring up the Hungary thing instead of discussing how the term is used in modern context

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          8 hours ago

          probably not, it’s too online and embarrassing an they’ve already built up enough propaganda around “communist” and “authoritarian” to drop those terms. Mainstream Liberals love being taken seriously. It’s only online they will lower themselves.

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            8 hours ago

            They are spewing false claim after false claim when they are easily verified as being incorrect. It’s hard to take such seriously, but at the same time so long as they repeat it over and over confidently, their base eat it up. I suppose that happens with everything though. I hope you have a good day Z. I need to find something constructive around the house to throw myself into.