• mozz@mbin.grits.devOP
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    4 days ago

    I classify most of those people as shills. The people who want to talk about communism or anarchism or pro-China/Russia-ism, and lack of any interest or hope for US electoral politics as kind of an outgrowth of that but US electoral politics is not the main thing they are interested in focusing on, I classify as probably authentic tankies.

    Like I say, of course, I have no idea. That’s just how I write it down in my head.

    • Optional@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Fair enough. I just think of “shill” in a context of paid advertiser or, well, useful idiot. Yeah, ok I could see that.