For a while now there's been a group of NAFO-adjacent shit-stirrers obsessing over the malign influence of the so-called 'tankie triad' which is lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net. This style of posting has been dubbed 'feudposting', and I'm parodying it in the OP.

The joke I am making is that if you're going for ominous names the 'tankie troika' is way more menacing and russian. I made this meme taking that bit to its ridiculous conclusion.

[–] phar@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 hours ago

I guess I'm still confused and maybe I'm not with it enough to understand. I just looked up that nafo thing and that's actually pretty hilarious.

[–] jaxxed@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You could also describe the significance of the word "troika", both in its literally translation, but also in reference to its cultural significance.

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There's a lot to the troika, it's been associated with Russia for centuries. Literally means 'a group of three'.

The configuration of two horses galloping with one horse trotting in the middle allowed for high speeds across vast distances and is commonly referenced in russian literature, particularly authors like Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, etc.

It's also pretty associated with the trinity (troitsa). Triplicity is a major feature of Russian folklore and culture in general; the three brothers, the three trials, three roads, three kisses, etc.

For revolutionaries it was the smallest organizing unit for a number of reasons and was present in both early anarchist and bolshevik cells. Some advantages were that it was agile, hard to infiltrate, and doesn't need a leader, rather a shared direction. In many ways an anti-hierarchical organizing pattern.

In the Stalin era it got a bit more of a sinister connotation as a 'troika' would be the group of officials signing off on sentences.

[–] kq@ieji.de 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@Diva интересно, но я только знаю трииииии полоски :D

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Как я могла забыть про стиль!

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

troika is a defunct game studio founded by fallout creator tim cain and his friends. Lemmy is the simpsons character who is friends with Carl. I'm not sure what the chariot has to do with anything, maybe OP just likes Ben Hur?

[–] pinkapple@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What. Troika used to refer to Russian three horse wagons and was later used for the Kamenev, Zinoviev, Stalin period of co-leadership. Three person rule or triumvirate.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

@robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net is doing a bit, it's a joke deliberately explaining things in the wrong way.