InexplicableLunchFiend [he/him]

The nearly indigent “free lunch fiend” was a recognized social type. An 1872 New York Times story about “loafers and free-lunch men” who “toil not, neither do they spin, yet they ‘get along’”, visiting saloons, trying to bum drinks from strangers: "Should this inexplicable lunch-fiend not happen to be called to drink, he devours whatever he can, and, while the bartender is occupied, tries to escape unnoticed.

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  • why don’t you like that meme, elaborate. It has scare quotes around “tankies”, it’s a tankie meme pointing out that these are all communists. Self-proclaimed Marxists and Leninists and Marxist-Leninists and USSR sympathizers. People that the average western “leftist” likes to think positively about but not learn too much about. “Tankies” as they would be called today, or “pinkos” or “commies” or “reds” as they would be called decades ago. Tankies is a way of carrying on the anti-communist name slinging to people who consider themselves “left” and think they are “the real socialists” despite them being a new flavor of leftoid (2000-2026) and coming in and trying to take over the domain of “tankies” (historical communists).