Tankies: A Data-driven Understanding of Left-Wing Extremists on Social Media - GNET
Tankies: A Data-driven Understanding of Left-Wing Extremists on Social Media - GNET
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Their positioning, further to the left than subreddits like r/communism, r/socialism, and r/Anarchism
I like how they use informedtankie as their first example of a tankie space, then act like /r/communism and /r/socialism are somehow less so? All three literally share moderators, and have shared many former moderators who are now spread across hundreds of projects on the site.
It's so fucking badly researched. They know literally nothing about socialists or the fact that among marxists there's very little issue with "tankies". There is no separation or division. They seem to think that there is.
They'd have a fit if they realised Corbyn upholds AES, advertises the Black Panthers, or Dianne Abbot defends Mao on national tv, or John Mcdonnel waving around Mao's little red book in parliament. Like wtf do these people not know what marxists are? It's like they have literally never encountered actual socialists before and really only have a particularly vague understanding of any of this shit. I can't think of a single marxist figure in the mainstream (for a marxist) that wouldn't fit their definitions of "tankie" if they ever actually inquired as to what any given marxist believes. The only real difference between any of us is our position on China diverging between ML, Trot and Maoists, which isn't really that divisive at all.
The only group that anyone really has any beef with are the gonzaloites.
they have literally never encountered actual socialists before and really only have a particularly vague understanding of any of this shit
This was me until I was like 25 years old - though in my defense I wasn't writing news articles about them.
Wait, someone think we are more ultra than the gonzaloists on r/communism?
There are unironic gonzaloists?
Here's the /r/communism thread from when Gonzalo died:
https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/s/pP1YuU2QTW
There are absolutely unironic Gonzaloites and they run the /r/communism sub for some reason.
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There was some good info on there, but I never commented because I was afraid I'd get banned.
So, you basically banned yourself?
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They certainly unironically purged everyone who ever posted at GenZedong after said sub cheered Gonzalo's death.
I remember that day; that was the day I became a GenZedong regular bc at the time, I didn't know why I'd gotten punted from r/communism
Yeah, they used to be more prominent. They usually call themselves Marxist-Leninist-Maoists though.
Sometimes ultras like Gonzalo too, but there's overlap there
Instead of boiling them we throw the baby out with the bathwater
John McDonnell waving around Mao's little red book in parliament.
That was a dig at George Osborne for cosying up to China, not him being a Mao stan (unfortunately).
Data science is easy when you can just ignore relevant data that disagrees with your predetermined result.