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Fun:Tankie argument bingo
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"Hi, Billy Mays here for the Tankie argument bingo!" A bingo card to make arguments with tankies go a bit more smoothly. Since most of them use the same few arguments, just mark 'em off as you see 'em.
Tankie argument bingo
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Holodomor is Nazi Propaganda! | The Kulaks deserved it/deserved worse | Lenin says only capitalist states can be imperialist! | It was necessary due to dialectical materialism/the material conditions! | Left unity |
Shut up shitlib/fascist/reactionary! | Capitalism will collapse on its own | Democratic centralism | Grover Furr/Douglas Tottle/Michael Parenti cited | The famine was unintentional. |
DPRK testimonies are inaccurate, like Nayirah! | So you believed there were WMDs in Iraq? | CIA Propaganda
|
[Leader of ML state] improved living conditions! | Capital punishment was reserved for Nazis! |
Transition state | Read theory! | Russians want the USSR back! | Revisionist! | Hungarian protesters were fascists |
The Gulags had a higher standard of living than the US prison system! | The Gulags were for dangerous criminals! | The NKVD National Operations was out of control! | Loss of central control | Jewish Autonomous Oblast! |
Bonus Arguments[edit]
- Shut up anarKKKiddie!
- Shut up neocon!
- Shut up Liberal! (Bonus points if they include a video of Malcolm X describing liberals)
- Castro only freed slaves.
- [Authoritarian or totalitarian dictatorship with severe human rights abuses] had to be a dictatorship due to US Sanctions!
- Great Bengal Famine of 1943 was worse!
- The Ukrainians are a reactionary race.
- The Berlin Wall was created to stop fascists!
- I can't be a tankie because I wasn't a CPB member that supported Stalin!
- I bet you're white!
(which I totally am not) - If your family fled [the USSR/China/Cuba], they were [Nazis/Landlords/Slave owners]!
- Read On Authority/State and Revolution!
- Mass protests against [state with a strong anti-west sentiment] officials are a CIA/NED Color revolution
- The Tsar wasn't better!
- George Orwell was a snitch!
- COINTELPRO
/Operation Mockingbird
/Operation Paperclip
happened bro!
- The Red Army Killed more Nazis than the rest of the Allied powers!
- "Occupied Korea"
- The Soviet Union was more democratic than the West.
- (Bonus points if they cite the CIA's records of the Soviet Union or the Soviet Union's constitution)
- The eternal science of Marxism-Leninism
- Turtle Island
must be decolonized but not Russia because REASONS!!!!
- "Tankie" is a racist slur against the global south
- Trump will provoke a proletarian revolution!