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regdog@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Godric@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
queermunist@lemmy.ml 8 minutes ago
How’s Libya doing these days? Is it good?
Rothe@piefed.social 8 hours ago
Fuck him. And also fuck the US and Israel. As an outsider this is just all villains fighting each other.
Klear@quokk.au 8 hours ago
this is just all villains fighting each other
…and civilian collateral damage, unfortunately.
kiterios@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Unfortunately there’s also civilian collateral damage when they aren’t fighting each other.
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
I have a list of world leaders whose death’ll make me happy. These are people that make the world better by dying.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I am sure the hundred schoolgirls were also villains fighting each other
SupraMario@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
To Iran they were just going to be new protestors to kill.
Fuck all 3 of these authoritarian shit stains.
rogsson@piefed.social 6 hours ago
Nice! Now do Putin, Trump and the rest of the dictators
Doomsider@lemmy.world 26 minutes ago
So easy to take care of Iran, but so hard to take care of Russia.
Seeing the USA waltz in dropping bombs over literally nothing but ignoring the Ukraine is pretty bizarre.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Can we include the plutocrats and oligarchs? That seems to be the root of the problem.
Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
And don’t forget to nuke Isreal to green dust!
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 8 hours ago
Now watch all the tankies praise him as a honorary socialist
MrSmith@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
They do already. “Respected leader” one post over there said.
hamid@crazypeople.online 4 hours ago
He literally was respected by people in Iran, not everyone there is against the government and the biggest problems with the government were not him specifically it is the sprawling layers of republican bureaucracy that runs Iran and does a bad job. The Supreme Leader there isn’t really like an absolutist dictator, the Ayatollahs are like the Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic and he was like the Chief Justice.
It is wild seeing USAmericans with no information talking about a topic they only received messaging about from their government.
WereHacker@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
I am trying to get someone to explain what tankie means. People call me tankie from time to time, but I have no love for the iranian goverment.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 27 minutes ago
gmtom@lemmy.world 36 minutes ago
Tankies are basically maga but for “socialism”
They don’t have any actual values or morals and will happily support the most disgusting and heinous people that opress people, are racists wexist homophobic, that murder civilians and even commit genocide as long as they say they hate capitalism, and western imperialism.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
Tankies are apologists for “communist” leaders such as Stalin, Mao and Kim. They love Russia, China and North Korea and will swear those countries can do no wrong. “Left” authoritarians… bootlickers.
Greddan@feddit.org 2 hours ago
Mostly cringe american kids who confuse authoritarianism for socialism.
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
“Tankie” was originally a British slang term from the 50s.
In 1956, when the Soviet Union invaded Hungary, the British Communist movement was split over whether this action was cool, or sucked.
The people who thought it sucked derided their opponents who thought its cool, as “Tankies”, because the images in the newspapers featured lots of photos of Soviet tanks rolling into Budapest.
After this, it stops being used for the most part, until it started being reclaimed by socialists online as a tongue-in-cheeck insult to throw at each other. Because, let’s be real, it’s a silly sounding word that’s fun to say, and silly words are among the UK’s biggest cultural exports.
Eventually though, Tankie breached containment and started to be used by people who had zero connection to any kind of socialist movement or history, and its meaning began to warp.
I’ve seen Marxists, even those think the Soviet invasion of Hungary was bad, called tankies. I’ve seen Anarchists called Tankies, I’ve seen right wing guys who love trad russian Orthodox Christianity called Tankies.
It’s a word that doesn’t mean much anymore. It’s like when your grandpa calls Joe Biden “Pinko Scum”
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Assuming you’re not a tankie, I would guess it’s your instance, which is the main one where all the tankies hang out lol
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
A “tankie” is just anyone to the left of you
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
It’s basically a term people on the left use for people on the extreme outer-reaches of the left, typically unthinking, uncritical, and unreasonable supporters of bolshevism and authoritarian communism, and pretty much any oppressive regime that considers itself “anti-west.”
They love putin, jinping, kim, assad, khamenei, etc.
They stylize themselves as “Marxist-Leninists” and your instance is full of them, so if you signed up unknowingly and aren’t a tankie, people might just assume based on the “.ml”
But yeah, most people on lemmy are tired of arguing in circles with tankies, who typically rely on ad hominems, strawmen, sealioning, and other bad faith or uncharitable arguments to bully you into exhaustion. Some of them have to be bots or russian trolls, cause no one can honestly be so dense. It can feel like arguing with someone from r/conservative, just with the opposite opinions.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
Doesn’t the term come from the Tiananmen Square massacre when the army drove tanks over students?
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Every so often I am reminded Reddit liberals (who just weren’t honest enough to stay there with their MAGA friends, who are closer to them than they are to anyone outside of the Western sphere) also came here. Oh well.
This shit is no joke, man, the US backed a coup and when it wasn’t successful enough they murdered people, and this is not even the first time in the span of a year (in this country). And American imperialism is always, always, on the wrong side of history and ethics, because they’re amoral geopolitical moves made to enrich Western aristocrats, loss of life is not even part of the equation. Stop it already, you don’t have to be Greta but at least you can understand this is nothing but violence for the sake of control by the usual villains, and not make fun of it all.
gmtom@lemmy.world 43 minutes ago
Nah, the guy was a piece of shit and I’m glad he’s dead and fully supporting people meming in him. I’m not giving some opressive dictator that does all the same shit I hate people like Trump for, just because he also hates America.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 22 minutes ago
Your heart seems to be in the right place but you’re largely misinformed, or taking things in a vacuum.
ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
How is this a shitpost? Politicalmemes exists.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 37 minutes ago
Every shitpost is a political post. Tell me why you feel this is more political than the post about global corporation KFC’s rubber nuggets.
totally_human_emdash_user@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
All communities become politics communities over time…
socsa@piefed.social 23 minutes ago
Everything is politics. Saying “no politics” is politics. The unwillingness to understand this is arguably a huge part of the problem, particularly in democratic systems. Every breath you take from the moment you are born until the moment you die is both a function of, and contributes towards a political zeitgeist which spans centuries in both directions. At best, an individual’s attempt at “avoiding” politics merely cedes a portion of their own agency to others, which again, a political act.
ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Only through apathy. If the mods did their fucking jobs and actually made a rule against political posts, and then enforced that rule, we wouldn’t have this problem.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
We should savour this moment cause I feel like this would be the only good thing that is gonna come out of these string of events.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Too bad his death had to cost the lives of innocents…
RaoulDuke85@piefed.social 8 hours ago
Bad Luck Ayatollah.
bearboiblake@pawb.social 8 hours ago
I mean, he has been fighting US & Israeli imperialism his entire life, he was an old man with failing health and infamously wanted to be martyred by US/Israel
Fokeu@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Martyrdom is a fancy word that means death for a made up religion.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
? People have been martyrs for non-religious causes since forever, man.
SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
Someone should tell those suicide bombers that getting bombed while hiding in a bunker counts as martyrdom. Might save them some trouble.
petersr@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Can someone explain the “died on the first day” part?
mech@feddit.org 5 hours ago
He died on the first day of the current US-Israeli attacks on Iran.
petersr@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Ah, I see so even though he has been against them for a long time, the joke is that counting from the actual war start it is just one day.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Letterman?
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Not going to defend him, but a Pedophile led nation executing/kidnaping foreign heads of states and bombing schools is not a good thing.