The meme is saying liberals will work with fascists to stamp out communism, which is true. It's not saying they are literally the same thing. Do we need a basic literacy class for memes now?
There are a bunch of examples of "liberals" siding with right-wingers against communism and the actual left in general, all in the name of maintaining the status quo.
There are zero examples of progressives doing the same.
Coincidentally, there are a bunch of examples of tankies suppressing (or outright killing) communists and the left in general, all in the name of maintaining power.
I think that it's interesting that tankies call themselves tankies in memes, and yet will get all bent out of shape if non-tankies refer to them as tankies. Like, I understand coopting hurtful terms as a sort of reclamation of the power of language... but really? Tankies is the term you want to reclaim? You want to associate yourself with authoritarian regimes using tanks to crush protestors? Alright, then.
the tanks ran over communist protesters. they were prostesting the slave corpo jobs invading their nation lmao but sure go ahead keep misunderstanding our culture
LOL wut? Fuckin' Tankies and making shit up. Can anybody name a more iconic duo? The protestors were pro-democracy and were shot / squished by the CCP. It wasn't even that long ago, either. Only, what, 34 years? Amazing how much people can twist shit in such a short period of time.
The term tankie dates back to 1956, when the soviets sent in tanks to crush a communist movement in Hungary. They wanted self-governance (while still being a communist nation) the soviets wanted a soviet puppet state to protect Moscow from the west.
Tankies were the subset of western communists who supported the soviets, named such by the western communists who were not authoritarian worshiping fucks.
As a Hungarian, I felt obliged to do some reading. Lo and behold, you are correct. And so, I would like to take this opportunity and say
Fuck '56 tankies, and fuck modern tankies. The paradox of tolerance holds true: if you tolerate these people's deluded takes as 'alernative viewpoints', you move towards intolerance, whether you like it or not.
Listening to the Overture to Egmont as I write this.
