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Swing and a miss.
Which labels then come on, I'm so close!
"Tankie." A label hexbear often denies as relevant to anyone or anything, or proclaims as good somehow... interchangeably.
You witnessed someone with such brain rot - someone important and influential, even! - that they insist gender is a western psyop. And you still can't recognize criticism of that brain rot, unless we all think you have stupid conclusions about the exact same things. Nah dude. Y'all just say dumb shit for dumb reasons, so long as you can blame capitalism somehow. That is what makes you tankies. You have some opinion that is so detached from reality, it can only be explained as assembling leftist buzzwords into an argument-shaped sentence.
The most common criticism Ive seen is that "Tankie" is very abitrary and ill-defined. That it's just used as an insult, which your second paragraph confirms. There is no substantive criticism you just hate us.
'You make bad arguments for bad reasons, in a predictable pattern.'
'La la la not listening you juuust hate us.'
Like that.
> ignores explanation
> no explanation
Ingenious.