Comment on It's been a while, which Lemmy instances should I be on?

• dickalan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Why is that supposed to be an insult, I know nothing of tankie But was called one a couple days ago

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  • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Tankies are people who supported the use of tanks to attack the civilian protests against the USSR in Hungary and later Czechoslovakia. That became the default term for anyone who supports brutal authoritarian states that suppress the people to assert their control. In modern day context a tankie would be someone who blames Ukraine for being invaded and denies the genocide of the Uyghurs.

    Some rightwing/centrists like to use it to insult any leftist. You can just ignore those ones.

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    • dickalan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I appreciate you for taking the time to explain this to me, mostly sounds like a term people used to other other people

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      • davel@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Pretty much it’s a thought-terminating othering. To label someone a tankie is to give license for prejudicially dismissing or ignoring what they say.

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      • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s more of a term to point out that someone is the left equivalent of a Neo Nazi.

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    • davel@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Tankies are people who supported the use of tanks to attack the civilian protests against the USSR in Hungary and later Czechoslovakia.

      • JFK Files Reveal CIA Role in the 1956 Hungarian Uprising The tankies were right
      • The 1968 Prague Spring — Counterrevolution as the “Trojan Horse” of Imperialism
      • The blueprint of regime change operations - How regime change happens in the 21st century with your consent

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      • Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        No one buys your tankie gibberish!

        I said it before (in this thread) and I will say it again:

        ML are basically on par with Nazis; full endorsement of extermination of national identity/language/culture of “bad” ethnicities, support for russian Lebensraum, support for mass internment camps for “bad” ethnicities.

        Dessalines, an American, has never lived in Ukraine or russia, doesn’t speak Ukrainian or russian and yet he comes up with bullshit like “putin just wants to show he means business” or “war is war, civilian casualties are fine [as long as it’s Ukrainians]”.

        Thank you for proving my point!

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      • bobzer@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I wouldn’t call fascists or CIA- & bourgeois-backed counterrevolutionaries “civilians.”

        Fucking hilarious that you whine about the term tankie sounding “othering” to you and then shamelessly trot this line out.

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    • kariboka@mastodon.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      @Deceptichum @dickalan so the fucking UN is tankie? Lol

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• Diva@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  name calling is pretty rude, believe it or not it’s possible to be an anarchist and not use one of your instances. for me I find anarchists in my day to day organizing, separate from the internet

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