Had some fun with this. Rules:
- When a tankie post comes up, post a legitimate, fair argument. Do not argue in bad faith. No matter how nasty the post may be. Legitimately combat the disinformation there by going into their bubble and posting a sane response.
- Watch the responses come in. Especially if the post is on the tankie triad.
- Don’t feed the trolls. Don’t respond to anything, unless there is actually a legitimate attempt to have a legitimate discussion. Otherwise, start a game of tankie bingo to help prevent yourself from responding to the madness.
Suggestions for expansion welcome.
In one sentence they bemoan demcen as anti democratic and in the next they say we operate on great men and not on parties and social forces. It’s classic fascist doublethink. The enemy is both weak and strong. Tankies love one party systems and centering the whole country on its communist party, but tankies also love individual party leaders and admire a strongman dictator if he’s wearing commie symbols and his throne is painted red.
They don’t know what democratic centralism means, don’t give them that much credit.
They don’t have to know what demcen is to insist they don’t like it. They just never actually call it democratic centralism.
But yeah, no, none of these people know what those words mean, true. If you say that phrase you won’t get anywhere. It’s funny just how often they’ll scream about the horrible ways socialist one party systems work, then turn around and complain that their own country’s political parties can’t handle their disagreements internally and present a united front.