Comment threads, on the default lemmy-ui.
Comment threads, on the default lemmy-ui.
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Criticizing Marxists on a community that is federated with the largest Marxist-aligned instances will indeed result in a struggle session.
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Not criticising marxists, just tankies.
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Given that "tankie" means anyone to the left of Elizabeth Warren, Marxists are a subset of tankies.
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As we already discussed, if the vast majority of Marxists fit the definition of "tankie" you gave, then it's just a pejorative for Marxists. The Black Panther Party supported and was influenced by the DPRK, if you count that as "glorifying," in your own words, then the Black Panthers were tankies. If you don't, and believe them to have been sufficiently nuanced, then "tankies" practically do not exist on Lemmy.
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If you make them look bad they delete the thread. It's happened to me twice. I consider it a win, but it is sad that others won't see how wacky they are.
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It's a coward who needs an echo chamber to find support for their perspectives.
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Is this why .world preemptively defederated from hexbear?
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Ok, what’s a tankie?
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Half a century ago it meant people who supported the soviet union using tanks to put down a cia backed coup in Hungary.
Modern times in the west it means anyone left of AOC.
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I would never call a leftist a "tankie" because they are a leftist. People who do that are idiots. The important part of the word is the support of authoritarian regimes.
Which is pretty weird nowadays because neither Russia, China nor North Korea are even communist/leftist anymore.
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It's an updated version of "commie", means the same thing, but for people who don't want to sound like cold war boomers.
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Originally, it meant people who supported the soviet union's use of tanks to crush uprisings.
Now its used to describe people who support Authoritatian Communist regimes, like the ussr, north korea or china.
On lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml there is a high amount of them.-
Originally, it meant people who supported the soviet union's use of tanks to crush uprisings.
And with the recent JFK declassified documents:
...it turns out the soviets were right to crush the Hungarian color revolution lmao
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Somehow they even support modern russia which is as far from communism as it's possible to be without being US
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Yeah, I think people constantly making those posts are a bit annoying, like they're just trying to stir shit up, but a lot of users on grad, hex and ml will very agressively defend themselves under these threads, hence the meme.
edit: yet again downvoted by .ml for agreeing with them.
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It will actually look more like this:
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You can't fool me!
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it's so fucking true
Anytime they pull you into an argument, suddenly 5 more show up to try and overwhelm you. There's no way it isn't a deliberate tactic.
I didn't say conspiracy
Lol, you've got some serious main character syndrome
Why is it that when I say something controversial in a normal conversation, that doesn't happen? It only happens when I say something mean or, god forbid, factual, in a conversation with an .ml user.
That is a tactic they learned from real life tanks. Argue with one tank, more tanks show up.
Tanks are pack hunters, after all.
I think they can’t stand talking to each other unless it’s circle-jerking over how much "theory" they've read. So, they love getting a chance to scream at an outsider.
talk to each other
"These tankies are caught up in an echo chamber, they never expose themselves to outside ideas or engage with criticism!"
talk to other people
"These tankies can't stand talking to each other and just want to scream at outsiders!"
Can't win.