Slop.

This is just a shitty version of that actually good Luigi meme

also:

I’m not saying you’re right or wrong but it is certainly interesting that the most prominent tankie specimens on the fediverse average 20+ essay-length comments per day while I get fed jacketed if I spend more than 2 paragraphs refuting their bullshit.

Strange that these self described proles have enough free time between their subsistence wage earning and real life praxis to write a small novel per week…

indistinguishable from chuds talking about paid protesters

Repeatedly calling tankies stupid but also criticizing us for writing essay length comments

When we engage with them we're writing thought out responses. When they engage with us it's thought terminating cliches and name calling.

How to overthrow capitalism:

1. Immediately punch left

2. Post online about how good you are at punching left

3. ???

4. We did it lemmy!

At this point I barely even know who the libs are talking about. I know what they mean by a tankie, they mean someone identifiable leftist who expresses sympathy for the west's enemies.

But where are they even interacting with tankies anymore? Who have they identified as tankie leadership? Hasan Piker? Mark Ruffalo? I have a feeling liberals will simply get into arguments on Twitter and that's who they figure their political enemies are. Like who are they kidding, smash red fascism? They gonna start sending anti-antifa to harass PSL? Are they gonna go surround a Marxist bookclub or harass one of those North Korea friendship orgs full of elderly Koreans? Good luck I guess

Haha yes let's punch left while the fascists are literally kidnapping our neighbours, shooting innocent people and throwing grenades in vehicles full of children. This is a very rational use of my time during the current moment.

Imagine living in an ever increasingly fascist world and thinking anti fascist are the problem

Our job is to organize in the real world so effectively, to educate our communities so tirelessly, to be so fucking good at touching grass, that these people who never shut up about us are ostracized for the raving, terminally online obsessives that they are. When one of these wreckers ventures into a movement and starts saying this shit, the response must be "you mean the people who helped me fix my car for free, who taught me to grow my own food and treat my own injuries, who helped protect my family from ICE? Get outta here, dumbass."

This shit is going to ring more and more hollow as libs get radicalized by ICE violence. You can't get to the point where libs are talking about protesting while armed (or doing it) and simultaneously punch left because they aren't pacifists.

Vote for hindenburg to own the tankies

It's embarrassing that liberals can't see through this shit in 2026. It's somehow more pathetic that they're too scared to put on a MAGA hat when they say it or cheer it on like John Birch Society hogs.

At least Deceptichum has an fun name for a fed account. That's kind of quirked up for the State Department.

mass murderers

I sure hope they don't have any heroes like John Brown because that guy was a mass murderer!

I was staying at a volunteering farm in Chile recently and some guy turned up, objected to me being communist (I have a fairly prominent hammer and sickle tattoo), asked me if I was a tankie and got upset when I said yes, and then still thought that when I was cooking dinner for me and my friends that he was by default invited to partake.

Because I'm such a nice guy I let him have some on the first night, but on the second night I had to remind him that Chile was still a capitalist country and that he could buy and cook his own fucking dinner.

Favio, on the off chance you are reading this, you are a shit worker, you lazy fucking bum.

Notice how at the end capitalism has not been overthrown. Not even in their own dreams can they actually do the thing.

Hey its the AuSStralian who spends all his time being mad about tankies and China

This is Reddit karma farming because it's based on that Luigi meme and also doesn't involve any real experiences. It's a thing you can post to liberals and get social kudos for it.

Y'know, if these people can provide a consistent, material, considered method, one that could actually work, I'd be very happy, I'd go with it! Despite the way I talk at times, I really hate violence. But they never have a program! It's always this bullshit.

Gonna see a lot more of this out of shitlibs as it becomes increasingly apparent that the usual centrist waffling is not just ineffective against ICE, it’s actively empowering the regime. They need to distract from their own impotency by punching left to look like they have some sort of agency. Same reason we’re seeing an uptick in the “if you had just voted for Kamala we’d all be at brunch” rhetoric.

This is a fairly correct depiction of the liberal "anti-tankie" crowd. More focused on anticommunism and punching left than on building serious anticapitalist projects, so they always fail or end up tailist or worse. They barely even know what their own words mean, or actively avoid learning them, and just throw around things like "organize!", "vote!", "mutual aid!", all individualist things shouted into the void, bereft of any material concept of what that would actually mean in practice. Except voting, they know how to do that: it's just waiting around for years and sometimes pressing a button or marking a piece of paper. Nevermind that the people they want you to vote for are the ones pushing hard to fund the "gestapo" you only realized existed ten minutes ago. Surely your resistance movement of giving more funding to your oppressors will do wonders.

Faced with this political anemia, soothing themselves with rationalizations about how it's actually better to attack the only political framework to ever challenge capitalism for any length of time. Often the people they criticize are same people who are ready to throw down and actually organize against fascists, whereas these unorganized people simply put themselves and their neighbors at risk, ad hoc.

Idolize

"My ideology and worldview are based on Great Man Theory so I assume everyone else's must be too. And I have the rightest, best ideology, so I assume everyone else must simply idolize inferior Great Men"

In a way, polytheism never left us

Putting it in terms millennial libs can understand:

Gimli: "Never thought I'd die fighting side by side with a Tankie"

Legolas: "What about side by side with a friend?"

Gimli: "Aye. I could do that."

I think fedjacketing is wrong and harmful so instead I choose to believe this dude just has something wrong with their brain.