Slop.

That thread in .world is literally the most loser thread i ever read in entire fediverse, i recognise half of posters there from them being rabid anticommunists who get throughly humiliated every time they write anything outside of their safe spaces. Losers converge!

Tankie does have a very concrete definition. A tankie is anyone who tries to defend communist parties which have actually accomplished something. But what about all the communists who only support communist who never accomplish anything and only argue about ideals? /s

Don't you know that you're only a real communist if you oppose all communist countries and anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist forces in the world?! Communism isn't about reality or results, it's about jerking yourself off over being morally superior to others despite doing nothing to actually make the world a better place!

On another note. You can always tell the actual decency of a community on what is allowed and what isn't. I ended up here cause I got sick and tired of the casual bigotry elsewhere. Normally a good way to make me leave. Hexbear isn't perfect but its hell of a lot better then others.

Basically if you are not putting Black and other marginalized people first, your politics are probably going to suffer. If you do put them first, you'll end up in the right place eventually.

@Cowbee@hexbear.net if I were in your shoes I would be walking on sunshine. You've really managed a 'Loved by Your Friends, Feared By Your Foes' thing going. These weirdos are losing it over you for giving calm and we'll sourced replies consistently. These folks have really put you on a pedestal or they dug so deep it has the same effect, to mix metaphors.

So yeah, congratulations on becoming the Grendel to the lemmy libs. That would put a spring in my step.

Lol that top comment with the ableist slur, they can't help themselves. What a non-toxic thread I'm sure

NGL anyone who goes after Cowbee...well not smack cause I don't think they would like that. Force to watch Cowbee approved documentaries?

nazi.world at it again, comrade Cowbee lives rent free in the heads of these

We love our @Cowbee@hexbear.net don't we folks

https://lemmy.world/post/49237006 127 upvotes, 55 comments

https://hexbear.net/post/8993889 61 upvotes 79 comments

You ain't done nothin' if you ain't been called a ~~red~~ tankie

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those > who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the > occurrence of the events thereof.

So, tankie is a term used to describe communists that push back against any liberal propaganda, because obviously liberals never say anything wrong or disparaging about communism, they are only ever truthful and correct.

The communists that don't push back against liberal propaganda? They're good not-tankies.

This is basically "anyone that disagrees with liberals is a tankie". It's a non-falsifiable thought-terminating cliche intended to prevent people from listening to anyone to their left other than the people that claim to be leftists but ultimately only reinforce liberal propaganda.

"Communist" that supports liberal narratives = good

Communist that performs any struggle against liberals = tankie.

It's painfully obvious why Cowbee just defaults to "Tankie just means communist". It's true and correct. Liberals consider any communist that disagrees with them a tankie, and any communist that does not disagree with liberals is obviously still a liberal, that's kinda how ideology works.

they have a dedicated hating community? son im crine

EDIT: putting this up top because it's more pertinent, they probably hate cowbee the most because he's so fucking polite & patient with everyone

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA I HAVEN'T CHECKED THIS SHIT IN SO LONG & I'M STILL ON THE FRONT PAGE BABY

You know, Slammerites (Shroomites?) & I have had our disagreements, but I will never deny the utility of their graphic design skills. God how do people miss the most hamfisted jokes on here!?