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a drawing of a person wearing a balaclava and holding a gun with the text "all my homies hate tankies" :3

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

A former roommate of mine had a hysterical emotional breakdown, and spent the following 2 months convincing everyone we both knew that I was mentally unstable to the point of needing to be institutionalized...

... because I laughed in his face when he described Hu Jintao being very publically arrested at a mass televised CCP conference... as 'being put into witness protection due to a threat on his life'.

...

You see, the problem with Tankies is that they're astoundingly insecure, extremely manipulative, and fully believe in any means justifying their ends.

Tankie roommates: Not even once.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

While I do genuinely feel sorry that this roommate of yours behaved in such awful and shitty way, my point was about the larger communities as a whole. Especially now that there are openly fascist people in power in the US and in a lot of other countries, I believe it's even more important to be united. Or at least, as I quoted before, know where the differences lie.

That doesn't mean being supportive of wrong behaviors and/or people of course. Being critical of wrongdoing is an essential skill. But in my opinion one can't be as critical when generalizing about such large groups

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

I'll continue to trust Tankies as much as the historical record indicates Anarchists should.

Which is 0, less than 0, some negative amount.

If you know of any historical revolutionary movements involving a distinct and significant amount of Anarchists that did not include Tankies betraying and/or murdering all their Anarchist 'allies', please let me know.

EDIT: Here, I can 'read more theory, noob' too

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ziq-tankies-and-the-left-unity-scam

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

I may not be an Anarchist, but i’m sure saving that link. Thanks.