• gravityowl@lemm.ee
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    “Oh hey, another user fresh from Reddit who just learned the term tankie and wanted to cry about it on a Marxist Leninist instance… I’ve seen this nonsense before”

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      i don’t get it. i know it has something to do with communism or something, but i can never figure out who they’re trying to offend. it all seems so culturally divided to me that it’s almost like holding up three fingers or something.

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        It’s a low rent pejorative favoured by the ‘tolerant centre’ for anything or anyone to the left of MSNBC

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        Well OP spelled it out in this comment here:

        “Waiting for the ML trolls to come out of the woodwork complaining about how I’m evil or whatever”

        It’s just complaining and victim complex

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          Iirc there’s a community on .world that’s specifically for centrists to go into various leftist spaces, act like absolute pendejos, then post screenshots about “censorship” by “tankies” when moderators take action.

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            No. The people who scream the loudest about “tankies” are centrists who don’t think their party is far enough to the right.

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            Talkies like to act like they’re the left, but really they’re the bottom of the spectrum.

            Make up they’re own rules and hate everyone else, even if your just trying to help others, including them

            Their preferred way of government you’ve never heard of and how dare you not know it.

            You may think you have a good point, but you’re actually stupid and a facist.

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              i think i get it now… it’s just another way for people to hate each other. okay. thanks. i’ll be sure to stay away from anything mentioning “Tankies” in the future.

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              Why was I not surprised to see from your comments that you too have a personal reason to talk shit about them after all the times they replies to your nonsense comments? 💀

              Tankie: noun

              Definition (according to Lemmy users) = mean person who has counter arguments to my quick 1-min google search. And I can’t be bothered to reply (also because I don’t really know about the topic at hand) therefore I decided they suck and they’re not actual left (even though I’ve never read anything from leftist authors).

              That’s the Lemmy definition of tankie for most of the times that it gets used

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                  Why don’t you define “tankie” or authoritarianism before, then? Instead of just sharing a silly meme and acting as if that was an explanation.

                  What even is communist authoritarianism? Lol

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                    Why don’t you define it if you know it so well? I’m looking through this comment chain and the only thing you have been doing is deflecting or jumping to another topic, while asking bad faith questions.

                    The other guy could at least be bothered to give his definition, it might be the wrong one, but I ain’t reading a counter definition.

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            Not sure. This OP also went to comment on a 4 years old post in the “republican” community here in Lemmy.ml so it could indeed be a conservative too.

            Regardless, considering how many of these memes they’re posting now, they’ll likely be soon banned.

            It sucks that we have to deal with these kind of people that have nothing better to do