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Sure, nazis are a bigger problem than tankies, but no one here needs to be told to look out for nazis. That's kinda self explanatory.

But tankies are a lot less well known, but still have a very destructive ideology. Just look at the comments here — there are multiple people who asked what tankies even are.

Saying "Kick nazis out of 196" would be redundant, which can't be said for "Kick tankies out of 196".

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Weight loss rule

I don't really get it. An SD card has basically nothing in common with a floppy disk, while USB sticks are basically the same thing as a SD card, it just uses a different interface.

Is it talking about the color or the shape or something?

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They claimed that they stole the explosive from the spanish army.

We can't fully trust them, but the explosive itself is not sufficient proof for US involvement, especially because it was a widely used explosive.

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Well, calling someone a communist doesn't always have the same negative connotations that it used to have. Because of that, they wanted another term that means the same thing but has negative connotations, which is why they picked up the term "tankie", while disregarding the actual meaning of the term.

It's really annoying, because the term was actually really useful, but is far less meaningful than it used to be.

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Ideas about personal connections and your mind are also incredibly important.

If you don't understand how humans work, then you won't be able to create an ideology that works. Economics aren't everything.

Sure, a lot of his works weren't particularly good, but he tried to encompass a psychological component into his works, which hadn't been done previously. His assertions were almost all wrong, but the fact that he tried had massive impacts on socialism as a whole.

In that sense I see him fulfilling a similar role to Freud: He wasn't correct, but his ideas opened up a new direction, which lead the broader field to actually think about and look into that stuff. Writing against Stirner made Marxism encompass some important aspects, like the historical materialism itself, that might not have existed had Stirner not existed.

Stirner was a pioneer, but also mostly wrong. He was important for the development of socialism and for his time, but is now almost useless.