“Tankie” is just the latest evolution of “pinko”. It’s a pejorative against communists. It’s that simple.

Who knew white supremacy would be a world wide scourge in the 21st century?

Communists.

From Dorothee Sölle to Noam Chomsky to Gus Hall.

The notion of a worldwide shift towards christianized fascism has literally been on the communists’ radar for decades, if not centuries. The worldwide shift towards fascism is only befuddling to liberals who live under the philosophy that we’ve reached the end of history, and that the wheel of progress will always inevitably turn towards justice and equality thanks to the advent of the infallibly progressive “marketplace of ideas”.

And the liberals haven’t learned their lesson. In the face of explosive excitement about fascism, liberals are still bashing pinko “tankies” who continue to sound the alarm.

What movies, literature, and game shows are you thinking of?

Comic books find their roots in cartoons, satire, and humor books. They didn’t just manifest out of nothing. Do tell me what “original” or “new” ideas were coming out during that era that don’t find their roots in earlier work.

I saw the word creativity and assumed they were talking about creativity. Soviet cinema and socialist realism disproves this. If they were truly talking about envisioning different systems of government, they should have said that. Instead, they made a comically huge and hand waving statement about raw creativity from socialist projects.

Soviets cannot create new ideas

Then explain the Soviet artistic renaissance

Oh well I’m only talking about creating new political philosphies

That’s textbook moving the goalposts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_realism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_art

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_the_Soviet_Union

Building a new idea as opposed to building on an existing idea

Again - dafuq? You say a lot of words, but I don’t understand what your point is.

bad at creative exercises for building new ideas

Dafuq

We should reject the notion that Nazis were simply dumb because that view treats Fascism as an aberration of individual stupidity instead of a systematic process of capitalism in crisis. There is some subtle ableism in attempting to correlate “stupidity” with fascism.

No one is saying that the Democrats and Republicans are the same. What we’re saying is that the Democrats allegience to the ruling class puts them in a position that makes them unable to deal with fascism, and the result is that their function as a political party is to defang otherwise radically leftist movements.

Joe Biden spent a record amount on ICE camps while the threat of fascism was obviously clear.

Biden continued building Trump’s border wall.

Joe Biden sat on his ass for 4 years and refused to prosecute Trump.

Democrats sat with their thumbs up their butts while Merrick Garland got flogged for scotus, and then turned around to immediately confirm Barrett.

Obama not only discovered Tom Homan, but awarded him with a medal when Homan devised a plan to separate migrant children from their parents at detention centers.

Every single dem senator voted to confirm Marco Rubio, who has obviously been one of the biggest champions of "immigration enforcement.

Democrats capitulated during the multiple government shutdowns.

Democrats blatantly shafted Bernie in 2016, and all but guaranteed Trump’s ascension.

Democrats refused to pull Biden out of the race and all but assured Trump’s second term.

Kamala promised to build the world’s most lethal military during an active genocide

Democrats, during a period of blistering inaction, rushed into action to censure Al Greene when he was rude.

Lol, wut

President Biden Signs Anti-Immigrant Spending Bill Reaching Trump-Era Highs

Developer accused of being indecisive refuses to commit.