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[-] Vlaxtocia 110 points 1 year ago

In case you're being serious:

A tankie is a leftist/communist who thinks "send in the tanks" is a valid and viable strategy for political disagreement (see tiananmen square)

A terf is a Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist, basically a transphobe who either is pretending to care about women's issues to hurt us, or has been traumatised by some past event and is taking it out on us

[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 77 points 1 year ago

A tankie is a leftist/communist

No, they like to claim they are communists, in the same way Hitler claimed to be a socialist, and the Kim family claim to be republicans for peoples' democracy.

Tankies are authoritarians.

Communism is inherently incompatible with authoritarianism.

[-] good_girl 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm curious if you've followed the sources on that article. There's a few that are decent, but a good chunk of them are further articles and opinion pieces written by socdems and establishment liberals, which probably isn't the best thing for a trans instance that heavily pushes socialism, anarchism, and communism.

[-] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 59 points 1 year ago

My experience with tankies online is more that they hate the West so much that they somehow think that all enemies of the West are good.

Examples: blaming Ukraine war on NATO, saying China is not all that bad.

Checkout hexbear.net for examples

[-] Glide@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago

9/11 is a bad day to be browsing Hexbear.

Or I guess a good one of you want to see just how fucked up the morality is.

[-] ezri 4 points 1 year ago

Ngl I don't see anything that bad over there

[-] octoperson@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

in case you're being serious

I don't know what sort of person could be an active Lemmy user, on the Blahaj instance no less, and not ever have encountered tankies or terfs. Frankly I'm jealous

[-] Kushan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

It's probably worth saying that these days "Terf" tends to get used for anyone that's anti-trans, regardless if they are identifying as feminist or not.

[-] violetraven 14 points 1 year ago

True, but terfs themselves are anti-feminist as well.

[-] Kushan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I agree, it was more commenting on how it has become a bit of a catchall term. Feminist or not, they're all a bunch of wankers either way.

[-] Master@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

The punch line was.... you know what IDC.

[-] violetraven 1 points 1 year ago

Edging. So hot rn.

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