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[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It is impossible for liberal servers to not do this every few months.

For them, legitimacy comes from proximity to their own media, educational institutions, state-produced propaganda, and power structures. Anything that challenges their white / western supremacist outlook gets demonized with "tankie" or "communist infiltration sapping our precious bodily fluids".

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago

They have no culture of their own

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 15 points 4 days ago

Political compass in shambles

[-] karn@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago

You can smell the fart huffing in this thread. Y'all got enough lube for the circlejerk of how you're the only moral people?

[-] kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 42 points 5 days ago

i seriously dont understand this hardcore anti "tankie"-ism on some parts of lemmy

i understand banning fascists when theyre spreading hateful, discriminatory or/and genocidal rhetoric but what "tankies" believe in is just another political ideology

almost as if they're right about something and liberal moderators are scared of people finding out about the truth 🤔

[-] PotatoPie@lemmy.zip 29 points 4 days ago

I think it has nothing to do with the reasons they give, they just want to push western narratives of "righteousness"

I've been to political rooms in blahaj before and the discussed politics always boil down to anti-conservatism and anti-russian/chinese imperialism,

US imperialism? You'll be called a tankie and told to stop acting like one to fit in

Israel genocide? You're regressing the progressiveness of empowering jews, stop being overly antisemitic and using tankie sources

Some political news africa? Turn it about weather or not they support LGBTQ rights yet

Riots in south america? Their governments are oppressing them, also stop using tankie sources

There's no way they can be this biased by coincidence, i'm not a tankie and i didn't believe it at first but it's true, Tankie do carry the burden of always being right!

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[-] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 31 points 5 days ago

It's spurned by liberal admins and mods usually. They can't actually argue against us so they put their cognitive dissonance into an unhealthy place of self-soothing.

This actually isn't unique to Lemmy at all it is the default reaction of committed liberals and liberals with thin skin. But when someone feels ownership of a place and like they're losing legitimacy and control they can lash out.

It's also important to understand that most people online discussing politics in these forums know basically nothing. They don't read. They can't critically engage with media. They don't question their own biases when presented with people from other cultures. They certainly don't actually do anything irl that would teach them visceral lessons. Trying to build an organization (not a career in a non-profit), a party, or even just feeding people. They might as well be 10 year olds for all the information contained in their political opinions. But they feel extremely entitled to their positions and wrap it up in their identities. If they are contradicted they feel personally attacked. If they think something despite having never investigated it, they announce it proudly with confidence and bully those who disagree. In short, humility runs counter to their socialization.

Finally, they're used to punching right, or at least most of them are, and their rhetoric breaks down when they are instead forced to punch left. So they just start namecalling instead, banning, or just trolling, as it allows their egos to escape without much damage.

Luckily, we are looking at an echo chamber of people who automatically self-isolate and can't organize anything. In the real world conversations are faster and more productive and building things and teaching is much easier, even with an audience that isn't entirely friendly. Irl people usually can't get away with acting like such babies.

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[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 25 points 4 days ago

congrats to the new dbzero tankies btw

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[-] davel@lemmy.ml 30 points 5 days ago

We know that some people eventually work past their “fuck tankies” stage because we did. Most of us used to believe the same things and for the same reasons, because we grew up under largely the same conditions.

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[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 27 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Literaly 19684 😔

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