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?

  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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    3 days ago

    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.