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On lemmy.world I posted a comment on how liberals use 'tankie' as an invective to shut down dialogue and received tons of hateful replies. I tried to respond in a rational way to each. Someone's said 'get educated' I responded 'Im reading Norman Finkelstein's I'll burn that bridge when I get there' and tried to keep it civil.

They deleted every comment I made and banned me. Proving my point, they just want to shut down dialogue. Freedom of speech doesn't existing in those 'totalitarian' countries right? But in our 'enlightened' western countries we just delete you.

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[-] ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 2 years ago

Go ahead liberals. Call me a tankie. See if I give one ten thousandth of a fuck. Literally such a low-tier insult. “Uhh its like… uh…you support this large cool looking machine that stopped Color Revolutions and was responsible for Liberating the Eastern Front during World War II” “Yea, I do😐” “😨”

Tankie means you approve when a communist state uses military/tanks against its own people... Not against a Nazi state. I would reconsider if you really want to wear that label with pride..

[-] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 38 points 2 years ago

Tankie just means "any communist I don't like" at this point. Take your McCarthyism and complete ignorance about color revolutions elsewhere.

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[-] IntoDaLagoon@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What is your opinion on the standing rock protests and the Kentucky state massacre

Also the 1956 Hungarian coup attempt that the epithet "tankies" comes from was literally full of nazis lmao

[-] m532@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 2 years ago

And everyone who don't likes Stalin is a Nazi

/kappa

[-] m532@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 2 years ago

The uprising in hungary was a nazi uprising, with pogroms.

[-] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 years ago

There's a really great graphic novel called 'Berlin' that goes into how the Nazis came to be, how the communists were the ones that organized worker strikes to stop railroads to death camps etc. I don't think our meme warfare on the net will change anything but if your looking for a fun read checkit. Is there anything you would recommend for me? I probably I'll read it. I'm a reader.

[-] Jean_le_Flambeur@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh i totaly agree that communists were often the strongest force against fascists. Don't have to like Stalin to be a communist nor to be antifascist though

[-] Pili@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago

That's correct, specifically a state that uses tanks against its people in revolt.

However, people on Reddit (and on Lemmy now) basically use it to refer to any leftist they have a disagreement with.

[-] Jean_le_Flambeur@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Well saying tankies support using tanks against civilians gets you down voted on lemmygrad.

No tankies here though, all just libs propaganda

/kappa

[-] m532@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 years ago

So you want the nazis to murder everyone in hungary?

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