cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/iasip@sh.itjust.works/p/426876/the-downsides-of-running-a-fediverse-platform
S17E3 “Mac and Dennis Become EMTs”
Tankies are faaaaaaar better than the alternative. You know who
Kinda comparing turds to diarrhea if you ask me.
Yeah but if I have gloves and have to pick a firm brick of heroin poop, I can toss the gloves wash my hands and be done with it.
I’m not gonna deal with splashy diarrhea that randomly calls the death squads because you’re a scary commie, like the last few kernels in a pot of popcorn when you’re too eager to transfer it to a bowl, but with death squads and poop. No amount of shower will make me feel clean.
Tankies are the reason why Lemmy exists buddy. But then we all know that tankies is basically a liberal version if the word “Woke”.
Tankies are authoritarians. They twist the good ethos of communism and socialism into self-serving hierarchy. That’s why we don’t like tankies.
That’s awesome, but what about it’s real meaning ? As in In Practice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89n21U6Q3_8
I learned to never argue with Mac.
You miss the chains already?
oh no the tankies i’m quivering in me timbers
Why is there an exclamation mark in a triangle on the person’s face in the first image
Cause they got banned
Ahh ok, makes sense.
Thought it was a censor because of some sort of trigger warning
I don’t know how it is on other apps but in Jerboa banned users have that symbol next to their name.
inb4 just another alt of the same dude you already banned 10 times
everyone knows there’s just one tankie on the web and he has a thousand accounts 😆
Mom says it’s my turn to be the tankie.
While replying and thanking himself for making such an awesome argument and being such a positive role model in a way that would make it awkward in any social setting.
And then everyone clapped.
Another angel gets their wings (learns how to disengage from spaces they’re presently incompatible with) ❤️
The tankies?
It originally was an insult used by communists against other communists to refer to people who supported the Soviet intervention into Hungary when the Hungarian government was collapsing. The Soviets intervened militarily to not only stabilize it but obviously make sure “their guy” would be in charge of the new government.
The communists who disagreed with this argued that Hungary should just be allowed to sort out their own government and the USSR shouldn’t be making those decisions for them, and they called people who disagreed “tankies” in reference to visible tanks in the streets when the Soviets showed up.
The word was then adopted by anarchists as an insult against Marxists, because Marxists believe in using state force to build socialism/communism while anarchists think the state is inherently a force for bad. This meant that “tankie” no longer referred to just the Soviet usage of tanks in Hungary specifically, but began to be used by anarchists to criticize every time a state ran by a Marxist party used state violence (“tanks”).
Liberals later discovered the word “tankie” and adopted it as just a synonym for “communist,” and the word has pretty much devolved in its usage in recent years to largely just be a stand-in for “communist” but more derogatory.
So, who exactly is a tankie?
Anyone you don’t like.
Current usage just means anyone to your left
Wrong, it’s what the left calls genocide and dictator sympathisers.
Cope
I find that when people use this term I get suspicious. It could be used to describe authoritarian Stalinists, Maoists, Marxist-Leninists, or just communists/socialists in general. I wish that posters would be more specific, because everyone and their mother has a different definition of “tanky”. It often comes across as a thought-terminator. I’m not up to speed on the Lemmy beef, so I have no idea who’s right, but I’ve seen like 10 posts about tankies and none of them really defined the term, which is very frustrating.
Ostensibly left (soc/comm) pro authoritarian.
Tankie would be ml or militant left
The .ml stands for machine learning obviously. Get with the times old head!
It’s a pejorative used for anti-leftist authoritarians who unironically insist their extreme-rightist ideals are somehow leftist.
Ooh they hated that one
They usually do.
