I fucking hate these shitheads, I was arguing with one earlier and no matter how many facts I gave him with proper sources he just refused to actually show any kind of respect

  • Stoneykins [any]@mander.xyz
    37·
    9 months ago

    Typically the word refers to communists that are pro-authoritarian, pro-military force, and some amount of bizarrely nationalist.

    The word is also, confusingly, used to describe all communists (by people that don’t like communists) and several other subcategories. Really, you can’t ever guess how someone means it when you see them say it. Some people self-describe as tankie, either because they fully agree with the term, or because people call them that anyways.

    On lemmy, 90% of the time, “tankie” just literally means “someone from lemmygrad or hexbear”, which is kinda fairly earned, because that is where all the pro-authoritarian, pro-military force, bizarrely nationalist communists hang out, but to be clear, not all of the people in those communities are like that.

    Also they hate being defined this way. They will ramble for hours about how “anti-authoritarian” isn’t real or is counter productive, and more like that. While spamming weird left unity emojis every time someone mentions anarchism…

    • TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      18·
      9 months ago

      The word is also, confusingly, used to describe all communists (by people that don’t like communists) and several other subcategories.

      Which is hilariously ironic given the term was created by communists

    • euphoric_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      9·
      9 months ago

      so it isn’t necessarily bad when someone is just communist right? but obviously the problems start when they’re pro authoritarian and shit