Respectfully, I don't think tankies are the farthest left, or even left at all. They seem far too concerned with statism and too unconcerned with uplifting the worker.

I also think that there is space for more than one type of far left.

EDIT: Witness below: a lengthy conversation about states, colonialism, whose team is worse, and other masturbatory topics. What average worker is going to engage with this ideology? Dorks.

I understand your definitions, but I I think many Americans don't use the same definitions. OP is pointing this out.

If we look at specific issues it's easy to see. If I say that we should have universal health care, or UBI, many people would say that I'm way far out on the left. What if I said that we shouldn't allow people to be multimillionaires? Would that make me way far out on the left? Again, to a lot of people yes.

So your definitions might be reasonable, but they aren't universal, and I think if you keep that in mind you can appreciate OP more.

The left absolutely has nut jobs. That's why it's important that us normal, reasonable left people call them out and check their shit.

The right let their right wing nut jobs take over. That's why we're in this mess.

The second layer to both-sides is false-equivalence fallacy. A majority of Republicans believe in the Big Lie; their literal nominee tried to overthrow a free & fair election.

Let that sink in: A MAJORITY of Republicans believe 2020 was stolen.

Do you see the broader Democratic party or any of their high-level leaders calling for jailing people voting for Trump? No.

You can pretend all you like the problem is that there have been leftist wack jobs that very much did exterminate people for political gain.

Things would be so much easier if we could simply argue about ideology without anyone getting the 'clever' idea that you can simply exterminate everyone who disagrees and end up with a harmonious society of people all working towards the same ideal.

"We are gonna make mankind happy even if we have to exterminate half of it!"

Its almost as if the USSR was just fascism with red trim.

because ironically the author of the meme made the best of fucks up made an unironic meme, Tankies are just Nazis wearing red.

Wrong!

Source: We're on Lenny

That was under Stalin's rule which was a fascist regime like any other 'communist' regime that gained power in the last century.