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Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!


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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

tankie is has a specific meaning, ie a communist who will enforce his will with a barrel of the tank, refering when USSR invaded its EE satellites to prevent popular liberalization.

what makes them bad is justifying state violence.

communism is a separate topic from the tankie imho. they are just parasites shilling foreign state actors narratives or larping because life in williamsburg is too good.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

ie a communist who will enforce his will with a barrel of the tank

Sure, but how is that meaningfully different than a Zionist enforcing his will with a barrel of a tank?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Zionists don't enforce their will with the barrel of a tank. They protect their nation with the barrel of a tank. Big difference.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Ya know what, you're right, that's exactly what this looks like now that you mention it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tankie pretends to follow the Marxist-leninist school of thought... however, they are not very good at actual marxism, they prefer that hard metal style communism and propaganda.

Israelis pretend to follow the old bible.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We might disagree on what counts as meaningful.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Maybe so but you misID'ed this person so i am providing you with the context.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bro being on this community and not even understanding what a tankie is...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Yeah, you seem to have found the fitting emoji for yourself, maybe make it your pfp.