Tankiejerk

Isn't that pretty much exactly what a "Tankie" is? An authoritarian communist? One that believes the revolution can only occur through state violence?

That's why I too am not a believer in horseshoe theory and actually agree that communism hasn't been practiced properly before. A peaceful emancipation of the common person is still unpracticed. If this is all tankies said, I'd be fine with it. But they say communism has never been practiced before along side arguments that the Soviet Union and China are communist. They are parroting real modern communists without understanding them and mixing in their revisionist history to create a paradox they don't seem too concerned about.

I think it's more about rebelling against their Reagan loving, USSR hating dads than sound political theory.

The bolshivek revolution made it certain that any communist nation is a dictatorship. The menshiveks would have achieved better results.

"I hate the US"

"Oh Russia and Iran hate the US. I love Russia and Iran!"

Unfortunately sometimes people are actually as stupid as they make themselves out to be.

They're not actually communists, it's just a facade for Kremlin and CCP propaganda.

Because they’re anti-west not pro-communist.

Anything critical of Russia is obvs western propaganda and as Russia is an enemy of the west, they will support them.

They see the enemy of their enemy as their friend, instead of realising it’s just another enemy.

Noo you don't ._. Their train of thought is more often than not "USSR=Good. USSR hates USA. USA=Bad. Modern Russia hates USA. So Russia = Good."

But you see, Russia is just what is left of the glorious soviet union who got destroyed by the western evils. Whatever they do is totally justified in their bid to rebuild the union under a dictator, dont you know anything? And Ukraine is full with jewish nazis.

Needs an "EU BAD" square