Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this

• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Sure. I’ve never been willing to drive tanks over anyone, but I get called a tankie all the time by people who really can’t stand it that I say that neither democrats nor republicans have any business supporting genocide.

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  • obre@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Liberals use the term to refer to anyone left of chuck schumer. Socialists and anarchists use the term to refer to authoritarians who cloak themselves in Marxism, Liberation, and Anti-Imperialism while perpetuating oppression through ethnic cleansing, mass incarceration, and wars of aggression.

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    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Which version do you suppose is more common on lemmy?

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      • obre@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Depends on the instance and community. I’m biased in what I see more often, but I’d bet on e.g. piefed.social you’ll see the term used more in the former sense rather than the latter, vice versa on e.g. dbzer0, and .world is a pretty mixed bag.

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  • TronBronson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Well, opposing genocide doesn’t make you a tankie… usually its the opposite. There’s nothing Tanky about saying Democrats and Republicans support genocide because they do.

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    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Well, opposing genocide doesn’t make you a tankie…

      Yet somehow centrists keep saying it anyway.

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      • TronBronson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Call them tankies lol. Republicans are tankies tbh.

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    • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Opposition to the Democrat’s genocide is the number one reason I see people being called tankie for

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