Remember kids, Tankies wants to undermine democracy - same as facists.

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      The key requirment is authoritarianism, especially now. Being left has little to do with it anymore. When you defend modern Russia, you aren’t left. It’s a fantasy about former communist authoritarian countries with little to no regard for modern reality.

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        I’m aware, but authoritarianism isn’t useful either. The US, Britain, Russia, Mozambique, and the USSR are all authoritarian states.

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            Just in case you’re serious:

            • US citizens are under far more governmental surveillance than any other country in the world, past or present.
            • the presidential cabinet is analogous to several “authoritarian regimes”.
            • The US has “plainclothes police officers”, analogous to what the US calls secret police in other nations.
            • the US police force kills on average 1000 people extrajudicially every year. That’s at least 3 people per day. Since 2019, more people have been killed by police than there were deaths during 9/11.
            • there are more people in prison now than there were in gulags at their height under Stalin.
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        I’m an anarcho-syndicalist. I’ve been called a tankie for milquetoast leftist opinions. It’s far more common than you think for liberals to brand anything left of capitalism “tankie”.