• TheDoctor [they/them]
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    7 months ago

    Legacy media talking about tankies? Let’s fucking gooooooooo

    Edit: June of 2020? Talk about a lack of momentum. Let’s get those numbers up.

    • waluigiblunts [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      Edit: June of 2020? Talk about a lack of momentum. Let’s get those numbers up.

      June of 2022

            • TheDoctor [they/them]
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              7 months ago

              I don’t think I’ve ever had a stroke or any kind of brain damage. Numbers just get mixed up in my head sometimes.

              • Juniper (she/her) 🫐@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                7 months ago

                I was making fun of them for bringing up something totally random (hemispacial neglect) for someone who simply mixed up two similar numbers. You don't show any signs of brain damage, at least not here.

                • TheDoctor [they/them]
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                  7 months ago

                  Thank you. I’m pretty used to having random things I’ve always done and considered normal ending up leading to legitimate diagnoses at this point so it’s worth checking.

          • TheDoctor [they/them]
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            7 months ago

            Show

            I draw clocks by putting the 3, 6, 9, and 12 in their place first because I fuck it up otherwise. I’ve done that since I was a kid. Is that weird?

            • Juniper (she/her) 🫐@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              7 months ago

              No, that is normal. Hemispacial neglect patients have great difficulty with considering both the left and right half of an object, so they will often draw clocks wonky trying to fit all or most the numbers on the right side of the clock. Coordinating where you place the numbers (as you described it) is the normal behavior. You do not have hemispacial neglect and confusing two numbers isn't an indication of it.

              Other examples include transcribing only the right half of sentences when asked to transcribe text, and drawing objects other than clocks failing to consider details on the left side, like a house but with an open/incomplete side on the left, or a flower with only petals to the right side.

              People just tend to remember the clock thing because it's interesting, but they misattribute it as a more general sign of brain damage and not a very specific sign of very specific brain damage

            • Dessa [she/her]
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              7 months ago

              Naw, that makes sense. Quarters are easier to eyeball than 12ths, 6ths or 3rds

  • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    Do it! Let's have the chuds learn the term tankie! They'll call everyone even vaguely lib a tankie. AOC is a tankie. Biden is a tankie. We'll get hilarious moments of Vaushite radlibs desperately trying to save face, saying "but I'm not a tankie", since they've spent the past few years trying to make anyone they can label a tankie persona non grata. And then, after a few years, the term will die out completely. Similar to how no one says SJW anymore.

      • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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        7 months ago

        Biden refutes it by saying he hates Chinese people, calls Trump a tankie for wanting to end the Korean War

        • rio [none/use name]
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          7 months ago

          Biden sends a tank squadron to Columbia but unlike Tiananmen the tanks just run the guy over and libs call you a tankie for criticizing this

  • ashinadash [she/her]
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    7 months ago

    American families under umprecedented threat

    That's right, watch the fuck out.

  • EstraDoll [she/her]
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    7 months ago

    published 2 years ago

    and i'm only just now hearing about this? lmao

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    7 months ago

    So lock up your toothbrush

    Lock up your grain

    Lock up your back door

    Run for your life

    The man is back in town

    So don't you mess me 'round

    stalin-comical-spoon

  • idkmybffjoeysteel [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    Interesting because anti-fascists actually exist in real life and will deliver beat downs on nazis at far right gatherings whereas tankies only shit post on the internet.

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      I mean, that's kinda true and "tankies" is a really useless term, but what % of those anti-fascists hold beliefs that would get them called tankies in most online political spaces? How many self identify?

        • Cruxifux@feddit.nl
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          7 months ago

          Well sorry man but it just irritates me when people go online and try to paint ML movements as a bunch of wienery keyboard wussies when that’s absolutely not how it is, we are the most violently opposed to nazi movements and literally the only groups who actually do anything useful about them. And far more of us are construction guys who train than you’re giving us credit for. Just remember that the next time you go to a punk or metal show and there’s no nazis there, you’re welcome.

      • Dessa [she/her]
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        7 months ago

        I dunno. Gonna need you to beat up a few more, just to be sure

        • Cruxifux@feddit.nl
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          7 months ago

          Oh don’t worry, I ain’t stopping on anyone’s account. I made some move out of the neighborhood last year, much to the protestation of my wife for worry that they would start vandalizing our house or something if I kept threatening them. But they were cowards because they’re Nazi goofs and moved away instead.

          But generally the nazis don’t come to the bars or shows me or my buddies go to anymore because we have a zero tolerance policy for them and we aren’t afraid of a fight.

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      7 months ago

      But they have a profile picture of Stalin doing a big grin and they call me KKKraKKKer and that makes me scared

  • DyingOfDeBordom [none/use name]
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    7 months ago

    i thought we've been posting about how tankie is "going to be" in the mainstream news, and here it turns out it already happened

    • AernaLingus [any]
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      7 months ago

      Yeah, it's fake. The dead giveaway is that the category for the story is also "tankies", which needless to say is not an actual category on the Fox News website (actual categories include Joe Biden, Education, Politics, Border Security, and Antisemitism Exposed)

      • citrussy_capybara [ze/hir]
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        7 months ago

        the site does have an actual “Antifa” category so if “tankies” ever catches on it will become real

        • Tabitha ☢️[she/her]
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          7 months ago

          im surprised they haven't moved on to tankies yet, all the anti-antifa (double negative makes that profa) is kind of a bad thing to self-identify as, although I suppose the drawback with using "tankie" is that tanks are awesome and requires knowing the most basic of history to explain.