Asking because some of them supported Cuba a few weeks ago but now Cuba is enemy #1 and the US just killed 32 Cuban officers who were directly defending Maduro as his personal guard.
It kinda seems like you can’t be an enemy of Venezuela and also a supporter of Cuba so like… Are there any states left that these self-identified leftists still support at all?
Did they ever truly support Cuba? Or was it always a “hate the government, not the people” sort of thing? I always got the impression that they wanted Cuba to be less “authoritarian” and have more “freedom” for their people. Though as your conversation shows with that person from mander.xyz, the term “Tankie” is just a floating signifier with no real meaning and just means whatever a person wants it to mean, so an “anti-tankie” is probably not going to have any sort of coherent worldview.
Mmmmmm. There’s a whole thing to unpack there where a “tankie” is an unreasonable boogieman that some people have been convinced exists but really does not. It’s a caricature of a marxist-leninist who reverts to “stalin should’ve sent more tanks” with no understanding that statements like that are unserious and the real position held by that person in a reasonable conversation is quite different.