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[-] GreenMario@lemm.ee 82 points 2 years ago

If you simp for dictators you cannot be leftist. All authoritarian is right wing. Tankies are virtually no different than MAGA Republicans. Both have the same goals regardless of the minor differences. And I have never seen a tankie talk shit about conservatives.

[-] Someboynumber5reborn@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago

Maga communism, which yes is a real thing, proves you 100% right

[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

I don’t want to live on this planet anymore

[-] scurry@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Don’t worry they’ll follow you to space.

[-] Gormadt 12 points 2 years ago

Shouting their shitty takes all along the way

[-] Draegur@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I don't want them to live on this planet anymore...

[-] Tabitha99 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

the ‘tankie’ slur

another example of you demonstrating op to the letter - playing victim. Just like all oppressors who seek to flip the script - white people who claim reverse racism is a thing, men who claim reverse sexism is a thing, transphobes who claim being called cis is a slur.

What a pathetic fucking clown.

[-] Someboynumber5reborn@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

It's funny too because I've been called actual slurs by tankies

[-] GreenMario@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

I have separate distinctions between "Tankie" and communist.

Communism, true communism as explained by Marx. Classless, stateless. NO ELITE CLASS This is the goal. This is good.

Tankies seem to just want Putin or Xi to rule the world. Or are capitalists LARPing as what they think commies are in effort to troll. Probably both with some true believers filtering in over time. Sorta like the origins of r/The_Donald and flat earth theory.

TLDR Communism != Tankie

[-] Draegur@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

MAGA Communists are the tankies.

Anyone who simps for authoritarian state violence inflicted militarily upon civilians is a tankie and anyone who DOESN'T simp like that ISN'T a tankie, full stop, regardless of their espoused economic model. If you're not simping for a power-mad mass murderer, you're not a tankie either.

[-] Falmarri@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

I was arguing with one earlier about how you can't criticize desantis for attacking Disney because Disney is a corporation

[-] Someboynumber5reborn@lemmy.world 64 points 2 years ago

As an anarchist I tried being peaceful with tankies in leftist spaces, but the moment I criticized shit like Putin invading Ukraine they immediately turned on me. These people don't give a shit about leftism they care about state capitalism. After reading Lenin I now know why they hate other leftist so much, it's because he hated them too

[-] EremesZorn@beehaw.org 39 points 2 years ago

Never truer words. And some of you wanted to let them in by staying federated with Hexbear. It's no good.

[-] Gormadt 18 points 2 years ago

Yeah it was pretty disappointing

[-] Rozauhtuno 14 points 2 years ago

I was one of them. I recognize it was a mistake. 🙇‍♀️

[-] Gormadt 14 points 2 years ago

Thank you for changing your views, I know how hard that can be.

I wasn't a tankie in my past, I was homophobe among other things.

My views have changed since then and it hurts to think back on those who were hurt by my views. But I try to do better. And that's really all we can do.

We're human, we make mistakes. Our mistakes aren't what define us. It's our response to mistakes (be it our own or others) that define us.

Plus once I got to the root of where that homophobia came from (self hatred, being a victim of abuse, etc) I was able to move past it.

I'll never forget what it felt like to look at myself in the mirror and say aloud, "I'm bisexual."

And over the years confronting those I knew who still held onto those shitty views, and they either changed or I moved on.

[-] Rozauhtuno 9 points 2 years ago

Oh, I've never been a tankie. I was saying that I was one of the people that wanted to stay federated with Hexbear and try to make it work. I want to believe in leftist and queer unity, so I tried to turn a blind eye to their takes on Putin, thinking it was only a few bad apples.

But thinking back on it, the days we've been federated I was a lot angrier and jumpier than usual, and it's because of the bad energy they bring. Defederating was for the best.

[-] Tabitha99 6 points 2 years ago

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[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago

Oh, fuck that noise. Tankies are anyone that figure the Soviets were good for the Eastern Bloc countries, and that China can do no wrong as it oppresses a fifth of the world's population like they're expendable slaves. Usually they're out here telling us how Ukraine should just roll over to Putin and that there's nothing to see in Xinjiang.

I'm not going to stop using "tankie" to describe these fucks.

[-] Rozauhtuno 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No, no, no and no.

Socialist != tankie.

And what do the USSR soldiers that fought 83 years ago have to do with the people spewing Kremlin propaganda today? Or Einstein for that matter?

You're responsible for your own actions, if you simp for a despot, you're a tankie. Hiding behind ideology doesn't make it okay.

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 years ago

The people in the US that were anti intervention in WW2 until Soviet Union got invaded, but then changed their stance were tankies (doubly so to the Union leaders that were fine with genocide in Poland but stopped striking the moment Stalin's criminal treaty backfired). The people that supported Soviet oppression in the Warsaw pact were tankies (that's what the terms comes from). The people supporting an Fascist land grab and genocide attempt, done under the same pretexts as Hitler had for Poland, right now, are tankies and truly worthy of their 1939 ideological ancestors.

[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

whatabout xyz? and whatabout 123? and what if I completely twist what was said and then whatabout abc, too???

It's a shame so many people have taken the time to respond to you seriously since it's crystal clear you're just here to sealion.

You are literally doing a live demonstration of the meme trying to legitimise your shitty and illegitimate views.

[-] Franzia 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Thank you. I tried interacting with one today and they just kept telling me I'm not introspective enough. Like just outright shaming me as if I don't understand my own thoughts and choices. Conatantly attacking my character rather than my arguments.

OP points out it's not just their beliefs that are problematic but this like, systematic behavior of disrupting our beliefs.

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