...I told someone it was a bad idea to install shaggy carpeting in their bathroom.

Why were you called a tankie today?

Edit: I was going for joke answers with this but the real answers are pretty much the same.

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
    hexagon
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    edit-2
    3 years ago

    There was a guy on my roof pissing into my rain gutters, which wouldn't have been a huge deal if he had cleaned the leaves out first. Anyway, I couldn't see a ladder anywhere so I asked how he got on my roof and he said I was authoritarian left on the internet political compass and then threw a flashlight at me, it was during the afternoon

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      Happens to the best of us. I'm in Tankies Annomous. Being able to call my sponsor when I feel the need to prevent revisionism in Hungary and going through the steps has been a massive help in recovery.

      • Mardoniush [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        I tried, but I went to Prague during the spring and really fell off the wagon.

  • Nakoichi [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    I was called a Stalinist for enforcing mask rules (not today but it was definitely funny).

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      I was just making silly shit up and was trying to lead others to do the same. But hilarious IRL is welcome too. That rules

  • CurlyCommie [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    so I have a huge stalin portrait in my dorm room, as well as several other USSR era propaganda posters. while also saying that stalin wasnt actually as bad as pop-history makes him out to be. They'll call any one a tankie these days smh

    • ElGosso [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Since this is the "serious responses" thread, someone on /r/chomsky was calling people tankies for saying that a no-fly zone over Ukraine is a terrible idea

  • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I thought about improving society (only somewhat, no crazy ideas here) and my boss roundhouse kicked me with his cowboy boots after calling me a tankie

    went to go get gas later and the pump was empty and the clerk said "dumb tankie didn't deliver their tankie today"

    that really tankied my mood for the rest of the month

  • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    I once saw someone scream about "radical marxist tankies" over someone requesting a tank (as in the role) in a video game.

  • Crowtee_Robot [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I got called a tankie for eating someone else's box of Shredded Wheat.

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
    hexagon
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    3 years ago

    I told a guy not to mix bleach an amonia and he called me an authoritarian red fash.

  • clover [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Happened to me after I put ketchup on a hot dog