Went both looking for fellow tankies and seeing who I should be blocking on Mastodon by looking at the hashtag #tankies.
It gave me brain damage and I also found a few of these “lemmy is made by tankies, ewww can’t use it”-posts that I had never seen before. So sharing these for our mutual enjoyment:
Also just the general vibe of the posts with this tag is just so hostile. We really live rent free in these peoples heads. Interesting how so many of these were ukraine flag or isntreal flag profiles too, also a few anne applebaum replies, because of course.
The vibe is pretty much whatever this drivel is by a true communism understander:
Its kinda true about Lemmy.ml being shit for trans people its why they should come here
we need to invade all lemmy instances and rescue the transgenders
socialism and communism are merely forms of feudalism
I wish I could be this stupid. Not have to read, not have to care, just make up whatever on the spot and be convinced I’m right.
I tried to explain this feeling to a therapist once and they didn’t understand. Imagine never having to think about issues of the day. Just gliding through life with a “it is what it is” attitude. Imagine never having to source your claims, and having an endless army of “normal people” lined up behind you to shout down the truth. Imagine a world built for you, that you never question, never doubt, and never feel betrayed by. Imagine only seeing justice and retribution where there is injustice and ruthless genocide. Just imagine how much simpler your life would be if bad guys were bad, and good guys were good, just like you were always told.
“Normal people” are just stuck in The Matrix. Feel good that you ‘escaped’. Choose your battles wisely. Don’t feel like every injustice needs a reactionary response. At least that’s what I do for my sanity.
Yeah I felt this was pretty special. A new level of unserious even.
“Communism is a form of Feudalism” certainly is a take
Usually signs of lead in a home are more subtle
“actually, when capitalism kills people, it’s feudalism that kills people, and feudalism is just a form of communism”
wow super informed person right here
because feudalism, a system where all land is privately owned by the wealthy and the rest of society works to pay rent to landlords is a form of communism. it’s nothing like capitalism.
Just astounds me that people can say stuff like “socialism is a form of feudalism” and think of themselves as clever, intelligent people. I’ve read like 3 actual theory books total and feel like a worm who failed kindergarten because of it
It doesn’t even take theory. People don’t fight wars, especially civil wars, with people who have the same ideology as they do. The Russian Revolution, French Revolution, Chinese Civil War, and Spanish Civil War all had socialists/communists/anarchists on one side with the nobility and monarchs on another side.
Nearly every time commies have gone to war, it’s been to kill fascists or monarchs. You don’t have to read 60,731 books of theory to figure that out lmao
Moments like these make me realize how many “intellectuals” are actually dumbasses
ah yes, the dastardly tankies of lemmy are coming after trans people! Do not look at how many users on Hexbear are trans! Do not believe your lying eyes!
The tankies on Lemmy have moderation issues that leave trans users vulnerable.
Meanwhile on Hexbear, we used to ban people for even downvoting pro-trans threads.
Uphold TC69 Thought.
I didn’t know you COULD downvote on Hexbear
Users on other instances federated with us can downvote us, but we care not for we know not behind Our Great Communist Firewall.
Many years ago there was a downbear button. It’s good that we got rid of it - now if someone says something you don’t like you gotta engage, even if it’s just to post a :downbear:
Saw that downbear and panicked for a second. Worried that I said some bullshit and was called on it.
We got rid of downvotes, and we are so much more powerful for it.
Here it is a lost and forbidden dark art
Oh that’s what’s going on on the other commie instance? pretty cringe
lemmy vs lemmygrad, I belive. A common error
I really don’t understand why libs go so hard on that angle. They’ve been doing it since the subreddit days when it was one of the better subreddits for trans people.
Its kinda true though nutomic is a transphobe
I keep getting Lemmy, the wider lemmyverse, and Lemmygrad all confused
Love to put a #hashtag on every #noun in the #sentence
You kind of have to on mastodon because they don’t do keyword extraction to automatically pull posts into topical feeds like twitter does. Most people who aren’t wankers just put them in a big list at the bottom of the post though, so as to seem a bit less early-2010s
Why is every social media platform obsessed with making the process of talking to another human so convoluted and esoteric? If it weren’t for Lemmygrad and Hexbear, I’d only ever interact with people IRL, it’s less hassle than doing it on 90% of social media.
Mastodon tries to structure itself around consenting to things rather than being auto-opted into interaction with large groups of people you don’t know. It largely fails at this task but I think it’s an okay design goal.
Not to be too sectarian but left-wing politics on mastodon is totally dominated by Epic Western Tech Job Anarchists who think China is doing a colonialism on Hong Kong. But it isn’t Orientialist to hold this view because all states are invalid and people should be free of them. Why do they focus on this particular example? A mystery.
I like the term Anarcho-NATOist for these people.
All states are wrong but all actually existing anti-colonial struggles are conveniently problematic enough for me to disavow and shame you for supporting.
Also known as NATO-leftists
i think anarcho-bidenist works too lol
Those are the Anarchist-In-Name-Only types.
“Two state solution? How about no state solution. Both sides are bad and neither get my support 😏”
They’d be out here denouncing figures like Durruti and Malatesta as tankies for what they advocated for and what they did, if they were alive today.
That’s the
anarchist playbook, you ALWAYS hate on the real revolutionaries doing what it takes to bring socialism in a world where imperialism is brutally powerful, just remember to sprinkle some actual progressive takes now and then so they don’t confuse you for a fascist
mastodon posters #love to post #like #this, put entire paragraphs in image alt text, and overuse the content warning feature to the point it’s completely useless
Im on kolektiva, which is an OK anarchist-heavy instance. The federated home page (popular posts from all federated instances) is at least half lib drivel every day. I havent really used it much since i started hexbearing
“Lemmy made by tankies” has been going on since forever. There is a popular mastodon account called feditips that lambasted Lemmy because dessalines “denies” uyghur genocide.
I like to just ask those people if they deny the white genocide
People like that kept me a very confused radlib for a long time.
I have never once brigaded because I will never expose myself to lib brainrot that I can get anywhere else on the web. I’m sure that’s true of most hexbear users.
Lmao the last one would be peak comedy if only it wasn’t said completely seriously. Also I have decided that I won’t read history and theory any more, it turns out you can just make that stuff up as you like depending on the circumstance, that is much easier
