It’s gotten to the point where even the mildest effective leftism will have at least one idiot crying tankie.

I’ve seen a lot of anarchists get called tankies even.

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    2 months ago

    I usually think bot accusations get thrown around quite carelessly. But there was a “tankie”-bashing reddit post pointed out on here a couple weeks back, and the account was so clearly, objectively a bot (mass posts, all anti-communist, almost all spouting ‘tankie’, comments very rarely related to the post at all, seemed to respond based on keywords, largely targeted subs that talked about ‘maps’, account was deleted straight after getting called out), that I’ve started to wonder.

    It clearly must happen to some degree. I don’t see why else that bot existed. But the real quantity is probably impossible to estimate nowadays.

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      I didn’t catch that one. Maybe it was a hobby project of some rando patriotic nerd, or perhaps a proof of concept.