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Oh so you like to pretend that “the far left” exists in any quantity in the United States and the US is what you’re talking about? Lol.

Have you seriously not heard of Tankies?

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I’m not sure what quantity has to do with anything.

And Tankies are not far left because they embrace authoritarianism, which is an inherently conservative idea.

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Authoritarian regimes may be either autocratic or oligarchic and may be based upon the rule of a party or the military.

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And Tankies embrace both types of regimes. They love the autocratic Kim regime in North Korea and the PRC and their excuse is that both countries call themselves communist.

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Yes. The separation of left vs right is the consolidation of power. Leftism is egalitarian (shared power) and Rightism is authoritarian (consolidated power). Everything you just described is Rightist.

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“There are sheltered teenagers on the internet with dumb political views, which is indistinguishable from actual attempted sedition by current members of government”

Couldn’t hit you over the head with it any harder.

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>only the usa exists!

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Show me one case of far left political organisation taking control of any country worldwide in the last 60 years.

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Tankies are not leftist. That’s like, the whole reason that pejorative term exists. They are just another contingent of far-far-rightists who - like most other rightists - brazenly lie about their position on the political spectrum.

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