Love coming back to Lemmy after a few days and seeing drama immediately, lmao. Nothing new though.

In case anyone wants my response, I am fully aware that there is an attempt by anti-communists to draw a hard line between communism in theory and communism in historical practice. "Tankies" support existing socialism, "non-tankies" do not. By creating a strawman of a communist, with all of the sins of the Red Scare piled onto it but somehow agreeing with them, those who oppose socialism in practice get to distance themselves from opposing socialism in theory.

Pointing this out is important for growing socialism as a movement. If we let the western lie persist, endlessly used a as cudgel to smear existing socialism and those who support it while simultaneously claiming to be "true" socialists, then the movement is dead in the water. You cannot build a socialism divorced from actual practice.

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!

@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.

Cowbee really is the spectre of communism haunting the liberals. It's amusing just how bothered these people are, I think it's because Cowbee is so nice about it. They're just there to educate.

The term Tankie has a clear definition

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.

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

Join the lemmy.ml boycott today and help foster a better Lemmy-verse! No more posts, comments (except to counter their propaganda ofc!) or upvotes on any comms on the Lemmy.ml instance!

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

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