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Source https://lemmy.ml/post/50674267
Definition of tankies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.
To everyone who struggles with their left and right, take solace in the fact you're better at telling the difference than tankies. No, the authoritarian dictatorship with anti-LGBT policies is NOT "left-wing". Just because you call yourself communist doesn't mean you actually are.
If they could read anything that isn't made by dead cishet dictators they'd be very upset right now.
At least its better than the people who cannot comprehend that hitler can lie
Its so funny when tankies call anyone who dislikes them liberals. Figuring out what the word "tankie" actually means was, ironically, one of the things that made me turn away from liberals and centrists. Once I realized that communists had a derogatory term for other, dipshit communists, I realized I knew nothing about communism and leftism as a whole and should probably reconsider what I thought I knew. I still am no scholar, but I've learned a lot in the past few years and I'm really proud of myself. I still consider that word as one of the reasons my political awakening played out the way it did.
So when I see people, especially people who fit it's definition, intentionally muddy it and claim anyone who uses the word is a damn lib, it really pisses me off. Its so disingenuous and just confuses people who are in the position I was, trying to figure it tf out.
Its so disingenuous and just confuses people who are in the position I was, trying to figure it tf out.
Yes, that's the goal.
Yeah, I dipped my toes into marxism and anarchism this year and am about ankle deep down by now. The more I read the more I cringe at people I see here. It is heartbreaking. All that nonsense spewed out nonchalantly like they know everything. It costs you nothing to be nice. And even if you disagree cite something for the others to read on if you think you know it all. And read books most importantly.
i hope mamdani, DSA in NY project works well
will it descend into magical thinking/authoritarian behaviour? we'll see. his bodega project seems like the kind of thing that could really backfire. he just wants cheaper staples but the knock-on effects and management of this project will not be easy
and will the ~~theorists~~ fantasists come out with the usual excuses if it fails?
Tankie isn't a communist invention, it's brittish IIRC ?
You know there were british communists? It was a term for people that defended USSR breaking the Hungarian uprising with tanks, hence the name. A modern day tankie even told me that everyone killed by those tanks was a nazi, actually
Yeah I know.
And of course, everyone killed by glorious leaders is of course by definition bad!! /s
Am I getting it right: An unactive mod got de-moded, in their farawell post they say that its fair but also leftist infighting bad and the situation is somehow interpreted by MLs as them being actively opposed?
If that's what it is, its so funny
And also is throwing a temper tantrum trying to forcibly move other communities without having talked to the other mods and implying it's the other mods fault the Com isnt more active, while being the only mod who hasn't tried posting in over a year.
It really reminds me of when my nephew-in-law screamed about how he hates all of us because he was told he can't hit his siblings and started throwing his toys around the room... He's 4.
mods of a comm that has "fuck tankies" in tagline have a vote and agree to remove a tankie mod. there are receipts and entire post prepared in advance
at the same time said mod is removed as admin of a couple of matrix rooms. said mod is also db0 admin and seems to like leftist unity as long as it's done her way only. three hours later she wakes up and her next move is to grab another, completely unrelated community and to move instances from blahaj to db0, a community where she was inactive as a mod for months, specifically so that it would be exposed to hexbear. we all know it works very well. it seems like this move was talked about with db0 admins but not other mods of said community.
this doesn't go as intended, blahaj admin steps in and removes that mod from there too. the new community on db0 is also removed, which is something that can be only done by admin, presumably some other db0 admin. then said mod makes second big post, calls blahaj admin a reactionary, steps down as a db0 admin ("voluntarily", somehow i doubt that), moves shop to hexbear (?)
I am a casual lemmy user, what would moving instances specifically to expose them to hexbear entail?
hexbear userbase are tankies/campists with extreme brigading habit, this is why many instances are defederated from them. including this one
imagine moving your family to a house next to a waterfall coming out of a sewer pipe
This really got me good thank you for the laugh
dbzer0 is being lumped in with lemmygrad, of which it's defederated from
what does a mod being demoted have to do with the other instances anyways?
Edit: Apparently they were a mod of dbzer0 as well, which they have stepped down from.
It's pretty fucking frustrating.
But it as entirely a self inflicted wound by said mod.
Fuck tankies.
Now that I think of it, I had the feeling Tankies and MAGA had a lot in common and somehow the meme on the bottom there clicked. Authoritarian propaganda.
Excellent news comrades:
You have been banned from this community until 2026-08-05.
All it took was just some typical pressure.
too bad their KGB wasn't a good saboteur.😔
Aww, the red fash got too angry and had to ban you for questioning them. Makes sense.
I've not got the room in my brain for all this infighting. Tankies bad and I block them when I see them. Since I'm not an instance admin that's all I need concern myself with
shameful.
Agentant should have included us in the sarcastic post.
Dammit I just snorted so hard I woke my SO up.
Excellent. Ouch in the nose, but worth it.
where’s .ML?
Is she licking our toes?
Boots, maybe
Jfc what is this all even about? I'm so otl on this one
if being a tankie means you're 100% gay for lori petty then consider me a tankie
that's not what it is? well it should be.
Im very confused