That's not really a thing neoliberals say...
They definitely complain about the tankies being a big part of the culture of Lemmy, and housing some of the biggest communities, but the statement in the comic isn't even remotely a thing neolibs or the .world demographic says
So this comic kinda just feels like a strange, confusing straw man...
The only times I hear of tankies is from how annoying they are in online forums, their only power being in their subreddits and lemmy instances. The only references to Marxists are from idiots repeating MAGA talking points.
"Progressive" Shitlibs when they allow bigots on their platform and Queer people dont like them
(Im pretty sure eveyone other than world users hate world)
.world has now moved onto banning people for calling out transphobia. It was bad when they banned users for calling out the Democrats' involvement with the genocide of Palestinians, but now they ban users for being "aggressive" with transphobes.
Yea..... I am glad I have .world on my block list.
To be fair, sh.itjust.works' admin thinks Russia and China are pushing "gender ideology" to radicalize western youths against the US, and it's home to NCD and MWoG, 2 of the most right-wing communities on Lemmy.
What the actual fuck did I just read?
"I'm not a transphobe, but more people realising they're trans is a psyop by h o s t i l e g o v e r n m e n t s and trans people should sit quietly in the corner if they don't want to get hatecrimed."
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Just the standard affair for users of that comm, sadly.
Saying that the russians are the ones pushing "gender ideology" on the west is an absolutely senile opinion to hold. For years every russian news channel has been hollering that it's The West(TM) poisoning russian society with "LGBT propaganda". Did that guy really try to pull a "no u" on the entirety of russian state media?
That's concerning... I don't follow instance drama, but if that's even half true I'll switch. Have a source that I can read?
.world user here. I also hate .world.
You know it's gotten pretty bad when even the anarchist flag usernames are meming about how ridiculous the anti tankie attitude is.
True left unity is uniting against .world
I've been more people complaining about Tankies than anything actually based on what Tankies support. But I've seen plenty of shitlibs openly supporting for biogtry on .world
Imo anarchists and people who even lean that way have a big interest in making sure tankie doesn't get used as an insult for anyone to the left of liberals, real tankies grouped and killed anarchists, letting everyone be called tankies and not just real tankies means Anarchists are less safe.
Basically my thoughts are, if you give slight pushback to American talking points you get called a tankie. It's kind of annoying.
Aside from conservatives, does anyone think the world is controlled by marxists, tankie or otherwise?
The meme is about lemmy.world and American liberals are center-right conservatives so....
in order to combat leftist propaganda lemmy.flatearth is now forcing disinformation onto its communities. The red scare runs deep.
I haven't been able to take the word "tankie" seriously in most cases since I asked that to someone on Reddit and they linked a meme praising anarchist Catalonia
Yeah, it's kind of lost all meaning. I've seen Marxists call Liberals tankies, and I've seen Liberals calls Marxists tankies. I've seen right wingers call Leftists tankies, and I've seen Leftists call Centerists tankies. I know where the word came from, and who the first tankies were but I rarely know what a person's intent is with that word anymore. Maybe it's just young people slang now and I'm just too old to get it.
Because I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it anymore and what's it seems weird and scary. And it'll happen to you!
THIS is why people have a problem with "tankies."
Budapest, 1956.
My family comes from Iran and Iraq
THIS is why I have a problem with "liberals"
Baghdad, 2003
I've been doing antiwar protests since Iraq- absolutely massive and totally ignored by the government. It was a bit radicalizing.
I've always considered myself an anarchist. These days I get called a tankie just for being opposed to wars and vocally opposing my own governments complicity in genocide. Somehow the meaning of tankie got flipped to mean the people opposed to sending in the tanks. Most ml's I've known are the first people to shit on Khrushchev anyways.
Whatever you do, don't look up the numbers of Soviet officials lynched before the tanks were sent in, or who the counter-revolutionaries set free from prison to help with the lynching and rioting (spoiler: literal Nazis).
Hey dont forget who funded and equipped the counter-revolutionaires (The CIA)
Well that's a strawman if I've ever seen one
