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  • Leegh [he/him]
    hexbear
    175
    4 months ago

    Further proof that Tankie is just the liberal version of "SJW" or "Woke"; a meaningless buzzword to describe anything left of them.

  • thisismyrealname [he/him]
    hexbear
    129
    4 months ago

    this is the kind of take you get from people who literally never leave the internet. a man doing an extreme act of self-sacrifice for a cause he believed in (and a cause that is plainly correct)? to the average person he's a hero, but to the internet-addled liberal he's a mentally ill tankie

      • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
        hexbear
        72
        4 months ago

        astronaut-1

        The only time Christ used violence was against money changers, it's just the biblically correct position

        jesus-cleanse

        • plinky [he/him]
          hexbear
          51
          edit-2
          4 months ago

          I mean, non-theology pilled christians can't easily answer you how self immolation for your truth is different from praying in the whatever garden before going to be crucified. Jesus knew he would die, he was afraid and he still did it, difference is negligible

          • WayeeCool [comrade/them]
            hexbear
            43
            4 months ago

            In the US they tend to be so indoctrinated on the ideology of rugged individualism (owe nothing to society, thus owed nothing) that concepts like martyrdom are just meaningless words they read in religious text. Extremely ironic because it's a concept that is near universal to all religions.

          • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
            hexbear
            3
            4 months ago

            praying in the whatever garden

            It was the olive garden, read a goddamn bible for once

            • plinky [he/him]
              hexbear
              2
              4 months ago

              that's actually important then, i was forgetting the name tbh.

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
        hexbear
        11
        edit-2
        4 months ago

        You forgot about capitalist, supply side American Jesus comrade! You can see him on the billboards alongside the highways. A tall, bearded, long haired white guy who helped build the president's estate! Both the motive and the conscience of the sinner due to God's all knowing nature! The force behind the army and the alt right! Infinitely kind is his allowance for everyone to participate in capitalism!

    • Odo [any]
      hexbear
      8
      4 months ago

      you must have missed the posts from hexbear dot net calling him a lib, not just the internet-addled liberal has terrible takes

  • Adkml [he/him]
    hexbear
    125
    edit-2
    4 months ago

    Friendly reminder that this is how they would justify any of our murders. Super cool not mainlining American propganda makes you a persona non grata to the libs.

    • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
      hexbear
      52
      4 months ago

      yep. just imagining the media discourse on me if I was randomly in the news. All the hogs would be cheering for my death

      • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
        hexbear
        17
        4 months ago

        If I live my life in a way that the hogs cheer for my death, I can die happy.

      • @SSJ2Marx
        hexbear
        14
        4 months ago

        I've always had this feeling that if I died for any infamy-producing reason they would track down someone from a job a worked at a long time ago who would say that I was a lazy POS and then everyone would assume that that's the reason I was a socialist.

  • NoLeftLeftWhereILive [none/use name, she/her]
    hexbear
    113
    4 months ago

    I kind of hope that seeing this discourse play out in real time will make some of the self-proclaimed anarchists&leftists who love to call others tankies realize where their favourite left-bashing term comes from and how it gets utilized.

    • AutomatedPossum [she/her]
      hexbear
      82
      4 months ago

      Tankie has been used against anti-imperialist anarchists and demsocs for years, if they still haven't caught on to it it's unlikely they'll realize now.

      • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
        hexbear
        24
        4 months ago

        in fact, the main purpose of the pejorative is to separate and filter the anti-imperialists from the chauvinists, and protect the chauvinist majority from the ideas of the anti-imperialists

    • @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
      hexbear
      11
      edit-2
      4 months ago

      We can hope, but it never did that before on a big scale, terms like "Stalinists" or "Tankies" are used by the western anarchists and ultras as a way to appeal to liberals and succdems that they are the "good" commies that respect the nonviolence, civility in discourse, marketplace of ideas and other white supremacy fairy tales, and not those "evil" commies that actually have any successes against the liberals and succdems.
      Which predictably falls on deaf ears because neither libs nor succdems care in the slightest, even "good" commie is a commie and will get into the camp at next purge because the only thing that matters is the treat flow provided by imperialism.

  • invo_rt [he/him]
    hexbear
    107
    4 months ago

    Bio: "Lifelong conservative, now an independent. Pro-immigration, pro-free trade. Jewish. Furry. Aquascaper. Elections forecaster. I hate leftists and MAGA."

    The furry community disavows. barx

  • Egon [they/them]
    hexbear
    101
    4 months ago

    "genocide is bad" and other similar sickening dark comments

    • @SSJ2Marx
      hexbear
      14
      4 months ago

      "Looking forward to the Elden Ring DLC!"

      -Joseph Stalin

    • LeZero [he/him]
      hexbear
      59
      4 months ago

      Mfw my anti communist internet community is filled to the gills with fashs and liberals

    • jackmarxist [any]
      hexbear
      19
      4 months ago

      Why are the mods political ideology because this confuses the hell out of me.

      • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
        hexbear
        26
        4 months ago

        Most people don't have a coherent ideology.

        I think there's a lot of anti-tankie radlibs who are just vaushites and will never be anything but vaushites. But a bunch of them are likely newbie leftists who are still being radicalized. They're noticing that capitalism is completely out of control, but they've been propagandized so hard their entire lives that they still have major "China bad"/"Russia bad"/"NATO good" brainworms and those take time to get rid of. This is likely a tipping point for a few of them, where they realize that the anti-tankie crowd doesn't actually share their ideals and doesn't actually want the world to become more equal, which can lead them to question their current world view further and slowly hammer away at those brainworms.

        • RonPaulyShore [none/use name]
          hexbear
          28
          edit-2
          4 months ago

          What Is happening in Gaza is a genocide and must be condemned in the strongest terms, and NATO and Western coalitions must do whatever is necessary to destroy the Arab pirates attempting to end this genocide, I say while I jerk off to a picture of an AI created anime horse.

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
      hexbear
      8
      4 months ago

      I remember that they had to pin posts denouncing racism and transphobia because the sub attracted right wingers who would post some random black liberal and seethe over the tankie DEI corporations in Silicon Valley

      • iirc that was r/EnoughCommieSpam which has had to make multiple separate threads for praise of fascist politicians, antisemitism, transphobia, racism, nazism, etcetera but r/tankiejerk has had to make threads about how "anti-white racism" is a fascist dog whistle, to stop calling Corbyn a tankie bcs it makes them look bad and that the US is bad actually

  • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
    hexbear
    90
    4 months ago

    FINALLY

    meow-anarchist left-unity-4 meow-tankie

    Get in the tank, comrade! We're overthrowing this fucking state!

  • Sickos [they/them, it/its]
    hexbear
    89
    4 months ago

    Sectarianism has been solved. The left has been unified. We shall not make excuses for the terror.

  • Mindfury [he/him]
    hexbear
    70
    4 months ago

    Sudden urge to go check on the 196 paedophiles and see how they're handling the sacrifice of Aaron Bushnell

  • joaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    65
    4 months ago

    when the revolution comes we will need special places where some people have to be educated in order to rethink some of their perceptions about the world, a re-education, if you will

    also, these places should be comfortable and inviting, open spaces, perhaps like a camp? I haven't worked out the details yet