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[–] Tieas@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Wow that's super interesting. I just signed up for Lemmy last month and I just googled what to sign up for and .Ml was the first one that came up. Fuck tankies and fuck commies so I guess I'm definitely going to get lumped into them for now. Oh well

[–] undeffeined@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh wow, I guess I'm on the same boat then. Signed up on the first instance I found back when reddit announced the API changes and did not realize.

[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

See my stupid username? I signed up to 3 instances one of them the insufferable tankie hellhole called ML

[–] AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fuck tankies and fuck commies

...said the citizen whose decaying world is governed by the sworn enemies of communism: fascists.

[–] Tieas@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's almost like fascism and communism are both bad and being a true neutral Chad is the only way forward in life. Grill baby grill

[–] AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com 2 points 1 week ago

Really committed to the bit, I see

[–] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Nah commies are cool, tankies aren't

[–] Konkyer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There is no form of commie in the world that libs won't decry as a tankie anyway. Don't bother playing into the word games.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yea there is, the ones who don't glorify and call brutal dictators "silly boy"

[–] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Believe it or not there are communists that aren't authoritarian bootlickers. I feel bad for them having to overcome the tankies image problem

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

they are the same thing.

tankie is just a generic derogatory slang for leftist.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

wikipedia says its a generic pejorative to define marxist-leninists. so, just as i said?

bonus points for the AuThoRiTharian trope.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

How interesting the actual view from Wikipedia doesn't line up with that at all🤔

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Nope, it is clearly defined.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Yeah but 98% of the self identified communists you find on Lemmy are actually just Tankies. Part of it is that most reasonable folk would rather call themselves a democratic socialist than a communist, as the latter has become entrenched in the philosophy of the USSR.