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It's not, and those aren't the comments myself or the person I responded to were talking about. And yes, that take is dumb.
We were talking about the tankies -- in the original meaning of the word as coined by communists, not as a slur against communists in general. Authoritarianism and its apologists can get fucked. People that think we're in a zero-sum-game where they have to offset the (legitimate) evils of "the west" by being equally disgusting and brutal while on "the left" are fucking morons and don't deserve the title "communist".
if you replace "communist" with 'tankie' in your anticommunist propaganda, you are still a useful idiot for the state department.
Brilliant.
I bet you’ve been keeping that dunk in your pocket for a while and you were so excited to use it, but I don’t think you understood the comment you were replying to.
That dunk is for when someone replaces one word with another to make it seem bad. The comment you replied to was pointing out that you had simply replaced the standard Western TM anticommunism with a more refined anticommunism, which you express as “anti-tankies”