The term Tankie has a clear definition

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What fucking nerds lol

If you wanna block an instance you don't like, that's fine! But for the love of god don't try to make it sound like some sort of heroic deed: You're clicking buttons

Also: The specter of Cowbee remains strong

@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.

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

They have to try so hard to disparage and silence Cowbee exactly because Cowbee is convincing, patient, and reasonable

Ukraine, much like Palestine, wants to mind their own business but can’t because they’re being invaded. How do you hate Israel but also support Russia? It’s madness.

I don't think that description applies to either of those states

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.

I’m banned from a bunch of places cuz of an interaction with cowbee

-- AdolfSchmitler

How it feels to lurk on !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works as a communist

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.

they have a dedicated hating community? son im crine

There's no elaborate argument here, it really is as simple as "the term Cowbee said is vague and gets applied selectively has a clear definition" and the definition may as well just be "a tankie is a communist who supports bad things"

That thread in .world is literally the most pathetic 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!

Has an elected Democrat used the word "tankie" yet? I know it's coming.

Anyone who gets this caught up into relatively tiny online message board discourse is deeply unserious. I really don’t have any clue what anyone hopes to accomplish by creating a post such as that.

Oh look, you've collected all the fascists in one thread!

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

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

Why can't anyone there give a "non-tankie" example of an actual communist organization that accomplished anything of note? I'm not talking about their local friends, but a movement, a country, whatever. There's never any example.

All revolutions are authoritarian. It’s the forceful dispossession and usurping of one class by another. That’s inherently going to be violent and based on authority derived from the workers.

And we all know that the imperialists of the world will never let a communist project exist in peace, they will assault it with never ending attempts to destroy and undermine and isolate it. So until there’s global communism and no imperialism, an ongoing authoritarian state is required to protect the communist project.

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

Don't attack my bovine eusocial pollinator like that who do you think you are

'tankie' is the type of term one uses, when their actually-existing socialist opponent defends itself with militant measures to survive against foreign-backed violence and sabotage, but they can't technically call them 'Stalinist'.

anyways, good luck to those boycotting - the troika of hexbear.net, lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml lived, is living and will live, without such wrecker scum.

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!

federation:

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

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

We need a special version of the emoji where it's Cowbee in their brain