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tankie rule (lemmygrad.ml)

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[-] Psythik@lemm.ee 27 points 2 years ago

Liberal here: what's a "tankie"?

[-] simply_surprise@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Nice to have you here! This post is meant to poke fun at how "tankie" is used a lot online now.

It's usually used as a pejorative term against communists, but the people who use it tend to not really know what communism is or who it should apply to. You'll get funny situations like anarchists getting called tankies.

It harkens back to British communists a couple decades ago. People who supported the USSR's use of tanks to crush fascist protests in Czechoslovakia were called tankies. It's then devolved to applying to any communist that thinks a communist state should be able to use violence, and now it's become basically meaningless.

It's not a term we self identify with - just one that gets lobbed at us a lot.

Sorry if that was a lot! :).

*edit: A Nazi uprising in Hungary in 1956, per redsquid below

[-] RedSquid@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 2 years ago

It was a Nazi uprising in Hungary, in 1956, not Czechoslovakia, but otherwise spot on.

[-] simply_surprise@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 2 years ago

Thank you for the correction!

[-] RedSquid@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 years ago

Nessun problemo compagn(o/a) stalin heart hands

[-] Linuto@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

Another, wondering the same.

[-] simply_surprise@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 2 years ago

I wrote out an attempt at answering Psythik below!

[-] Rasm635u@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 years ago

It's nice to have a liberal on Lemmygrad who's acting in good faith for a change

[-] comedygoblin@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Oh yeah? iPhone vuvuzela 100 trillion dead. Checkmate tankies

[+] Custoslibera@lemmy.world -21 points 2 years ago

Is ‘Someone who’s prepared to run over ‘dissidents’ in a tank’ an unacceptable response?

[-] simply_surprise@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Is ‘Someone who’s prepared to run over ‘dissidents’ in a tank’ an unacceptable response?

"NYPD are tankies." You heard it here first, folks!

[-] darkcalling@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Interesting. Sounds like a meaningless definition. By this I'd say your average Fox News watching chud would fit the definition of tankie. You'd need only give them a tank, point them to some BLM protestors in a road, let them know they won't be arrested and have immunity and they'd charge the fuck on down with that tank while screaming how all lives matter.

Or for that matter as others have pointed out, a lot of cops.

I've seen pictures of protests in Latin America, I forget which country, it had a right-wing government at the time, the protestors were leftist and the government rammed them with armored combat vehicles, not quite tanks but those must be tankies too.

Sounds like a rather useless term to be honest. Not only that it would seem to paper over the fact lots more people have been run over to death by normal vehicles, jeeps, armored vehicles that aren't tanks, etc than could possibly have been run over by tanks. So those people's lives don't matter, the use of vehicles to slaughter then don't matter? Only if it fits a narrow criteria?

Again useless definition.

[-] Rom@lemm.ee 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

By this I’d say your average Fox News watching chud would fit the definition of tankie. You’d need only give them a tank, point them to some BLM protestors in a road, let them know they won’t be arrested and have immunity and they’d charge the fuck on down with that tank while screaming how all lives matter.

Considering Florida passed such a law giving people immunity for running over protestors on roads, and modern American trucks and SUVs are practically the size of tanks, this isn't even an exaggeration of reality.

[-] SovereignState@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 2 years ago

daily reminder that the full tank man video exists. soldier got out of the tank and talked to him, and he left unharmed.

Tangential maybe, but through decades of propaganda and omission, libs today think they ran the guy over for some fucking reason.

[+] Cypher@lemmy.world -20 points 2 years ago

They let tank man go at the time and no one knows what happened to him.

Then the tanks continued to Tianamen square where they proceeded to crush students to death by driving over them.

There are photos of the aftermath but you want to ignore that don’t you.

[-] TheKanzler@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 2 years ago

Then the tanks continued to Tianamen square where they proceeded to crush students to death by driving over them.

The picture which shows mainly abandoned bicycles and a handful of people who dove for cover after they gave an order to clear the square?

[-] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The tanks were leaving during the Tank Man nonsense. It happened the day after the supposed massacre. All eyewitnesses say that there was no massacre on the square, and certainly no crushing people with tanks.

So yeah, post your photos, let me guess lots of fallen bicycles?

[-] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 2 years ago

You can't even get that right. The tanks were leaving the square when the picture was taken.

[-] sicaniv@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Average chud consuming too much of Western media poop.

[-] Rom@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago

They let tank man go at the time and no one knows what happened to him.

So on what basis do you assume something bad happened to him rather than he just went home and carried on with his life?

[-] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 2 years ago

There are photos of the aftermath but you want to ignore that don’t you

Post them, please. I've not seen such photos. I am asking with no snark, in good faith. You say such photos exist. Please post them.

[-] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Take a look a this, it was written, by a chinese student living in the US, for a college/university course.

He shared it on r/TheDeprogram. It contains useful information, and the photos we "supposedly" ignore.

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1vuXO60Rpe8ewRXKFe6gOFx4hmH58zKFst9CfdWBtJ3A/mobilebasic?pli=1

[-] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 years ago

We don't know

Think again

[-] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago

The tanks were leaving the fucking square you fucking caveman. You have the internet at your fingertips, read

someone repost this to them since apparently my comments don't show on shithole lemmy.world

[-] ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 2 years ago

fucking liberals

[-] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 2 years ago

How were they dissending?

[-] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Very interesting to call back to an event that happened over 70 years ago where what you describe might possibly in some way if the stars aligned have happened, meanwhile police in France and the US are filmed actually running over peaceful protestors with their cars all the fucking time.

The past is the past it can't hurt you bro, focus on the present.

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