this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2026
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Another ultra based W for the scary “tankies”. Thanks for posting comrade ✊
Lol, if imagining that people are scared of tankies gives you some vague feeling of strength, go right ahead and roll with that. I'm sure you need every small bit of ego boost you can scrabble together.
You're welcome to interact with whatever communities you wish, and like I said I can see some logic in it.
I just don't think it's appropriate for a comm that at first glance appears to be a general use meme community on the flagship lemmy instance, while the very mod pushing this is trying to say that it's still a general use comm/instance. This sort of rule means it clearly isn't general use, there's a focus that should be made loud and clear. Go have your specific focused spaces, just don't try and hide it as a space for everyone then get pissy and ban happy when people treat the space as it initially appears to be.
And we all know that what this weird rant really means is that there's no room for any vague positivity about the US whatsoever, because imperialism is only ok when our team does it.
Yea, not gonna read all of that. Thanks for posting this update, I completely agree with the mods over ml, I’m sure you do too. 🫶 death to amerikkka
can you hurry up with it?
seriously, why haven't yanks started revolting yet?
Seven whole sentences is too much for you? Good to know.
Yea, me no good with long ass lib excuses. Me very simple man with simple ideas: amerikkka = bad / commies = good 🤭
And still baited. I equate the quality of the bait to the quality of the post.
Understandable. It's not your fault that you're "simple"; you were born that way.
You have described yourself in the most accurate way possible
In this community, you have a lot of lattitude. I support your decision to not read all that, and will defend your right to do so.
See my previous comment regarding lattitude
No you're not.
You'd be surprised how attractive this sentiment is outside of your particular ingroup.
That being said, I'd have thought that Trump's usage of Stalinist tactics would have tankies absolutely turgid.
I mean, I try to stay away from the equator yes, too hot for me. I try to keep my latitude a bit higher.
Thanks for supporting me, i didn’t read the rest. Long live the commies ✊