stolen from hegelian_sophomore@instagr*m
i can not parse this meme
tankie = a person who thinks that USSR quelling the Budapest uprising by deploying the army (hence tanks) was the right choice; nowadays it’s used been co-opted as a derogatory for any revolutionary socialist and/or anti-imperialist
socdems = social democrats = a wide spectrum of views somewhere between liberalism and socialism; either liberals recognizing that capitalism needs a lot of regulation to work, or socialists trying to reform the bourgeois state from within using existing democratic institutions.
Mamdani = socdem mayor of New York, a self-proclaimed socialist trying to reform the city by becoming the mayor, with moderate to good success
<x>-pilled = the person understands or aligns with <x> which is against the dominant societal ideology, originally from “redpilled” from the Matrix movies, where Neo takes the red pill to wake up from The Matrix and realizes everything around him has been a lie
get the girl = be attractive enough to be in a relationship and/or get laid
Therefore:
“Face it, revolutionary socialist: reformist socialists who align with Mamdani are attractive to girls and have relationships”
I’m pretty sure there’s a certain degree of irony here, but this is the literal interpretation at least.
tankie = a person who thinks that USSR quelling the Budapest uprising by deploying the army (hence tanks) was the right choice; nowadays it’s used been co-opted as a derogatory for any revolutionary socialist and/or anti-imperialist
“Tankie” can be co-opted as an insult against all leftists, but many leftists use it to specify authoritarian leaning Marxist-Leninists or Maoists. Equating the term as mainly referring to “any revolutionary socialists and/or anti-imperialists” is uninformed at best, and disingenuous normalization at worst. Authoritarian Marxism has never and will never be tolerated on 196, just like any authoritarianism from any ideology. Consider this a final warning.
196 has a great stance, and excellent moderation.
“we don’t like fascists. we don’t care if your fascist hat is red, brown, black, or furry” basically
Oh shit, the fur right is a thing?
referencing an ushanka there. ushankas with hammers and sickles are particularly popular with red fascists where i’m at
Ohhh, d’oh.
But cmon you gotta admit the fur right is a great name if there are furry Nazis.
It’s too late, I have already depicted you as the soyjack and myself as the chad.
I thought Tankie specifically referenced Stalinists.
Usually, but any support of authcom falls under the umbrella, imo.
Excellent high effort explanation! But just a small clarification, I think usually the way people refer to
either liberals recognizing that capitalism needs a lot of regulation to work, or socialists trying to reform the bourgeois state from within using existing democratic institutions.
Is that the former are social democrats and the latter are democratic socialists. But I agree there’s a spectrum of views between the two.
Wait, a .ml user confusing socialists and social democrats? That kind of blunder is reserved for .world users!
Jokes aside, social democrats and socialists are mutually exclusive. Social democracy is capitalism, socialism is by definition not.
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Nowadays the umbrella is pretty broad, people like Mamdani are often indeed called or identify as socdems, and yet they’re also reformist socialists.I just had a brainfart and swapped the words “democratic” and “socialist” around, my bad
I’m just struggling to link Brian from Family Guy to Mamdani or SocDems in this.
I would argue that “tankie” isn’t an antirevolutionary term. It refers to authoritarian sympathizing “leftists”, but opposing authoritarianism doesn’t make you against revolution inherently. I mean, if a revolution were to happen tomorrow I wouldn’t be opposed. Yet, I’m not a tankie.
the original creator said as much about their own work lol
Brian is famously known a liberal, and not a socdem. this is not a family guy canon meme. 4/10
but he’s mamdanipilled for sure tho i think he’d come around
