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[-] [email protected] 94 points 2 years ago

In case you're being serious:

A tankie is a leftist/communist who thinks "send in the tanks" is a valid and viable strategy for political disagreement (see tiananmen square)

A terf is a Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist, basically a transphobe who either is pretending to care about women's issues to hurt us, or has been traumatised by some past event and is taking it out on us

[-] [email protected] 77 points 2 years ago

A tankie is a leftist/communist

No, they like to claim they are communists, in the same way Hitler claimed to be a socialist, and the Kim family claim to be republicans for peoples' democracy.

Tankies are authoritarians.

Communism is inherently incompatible with authoritarianism.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Interesting article, thanks

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Wait I recognize your username

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm curious if you've followed the sources on that article. There's a few that are decent, but a good chunk of them are further articles and opinion pieces written by socdems and establishment liberals, which probably isn't the best thing for a trans instance that heavily pushes socialism, anarchism, and communism.

[-] [email protected] 58 points 2 years ago

My experience with tankies online is more that they hate the West so much that they somehow think that all enemies of the West are good.

Examples: blaming Ukraine war on NATO, saying China is not all that bad.

Checkout hexbear.net for examples

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

9/11 is a bad day to be browsing Hexbear.

Or I guess a good one of you want to see just how fucked up the morality is.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Ngl I don't see anything that bad over there

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

in case you're being serious

I don't know what sort of person could be an active Lemmy user, on the Blahaj instance no less, and not ever have encountered tankies or terfs. Frankly I'm jealous

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

It's probably worth saying that these days "Terf" tends to get used for anyone that's anti-trans, regardless if they are identifying as feminist or not.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

True, but terfs themselves are anti-feminist as well.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I agree, it was more commenting on how it has become a bit of a catchall term. Feminist or not, they're all a bunch of wankers either way.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

The punch line was.... you know what IDC.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Edging. So hot rn.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

Tankies are only a huge problem online. I have yet to meet one irl. Probably because they don't actually go outside.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

How are they a HUGE problem? XD

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

Because they get butthurt and write absolute fucking diatribes in response to a flippant joke about the USSR. And they come in numbers, never alone.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

they’re very annoying, just like the other 14 year olds on the internet

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

People who have no life and are terminally online. Describes a lot of tankies

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think it depends on where you go online, I have mostly seen discussions about tankies on Lemmy, and seen more magats.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

A Terf is this plastic pistols toy throwing foam darts. I guess a Tankie is like a tank top 🤷‍♂️

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

It's Terf or Tothing

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

A tankie is someone from the military, while a terf is kind of like a working class dwarf.

You're welcome! /s

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Have a poke around the Lemmygrad instance, or meanwhileongrad for an idea of what they're about.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

i know what tankies are but not terfs

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

TERFs are "trans exclusionary radical feminists". Basically it means people who are feminist but transphobic. They advocate for women's rights but view trans women as men invading women's spaces.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Not quite. TERFs regularly team up with groups trying to dismantle women's rights to attack trans people. Their transphobia often uses misogyny as a blueprint (for example, attacking trans women for not meeting some kind of vague feminine beauty standard or defining womanhood purely by the ability to give birth). They're feminists in name only.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Well, yes, they're feminists in name only because trans women are women and don't believe trans women should have the same rights as cis women.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

That too

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

i never have seen a non ironic tankie posting.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

good for you

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