The term Tankie has a clear definition that Cowbee likes to ignore:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie 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.
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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.
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“Tankie”, originally a Khrushchevite. Then, anyone of support or stanning of established red states. Now, anything that challenges western chauvinism in even the mildest manner
As someone who is not from the US, I’ve always seen ‘Tankie’ as liberal slang for a progressive that is a traitor to the empire. Not aligned with the idea that you can be both a progressive in america and a reactionary to the rest of the world, if not an outright nazi.
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!
Tankie does have a very concrete definition. A tankie is anyone who tries to defend communist parties which have actually accomplished something. But what about all the communists who only support communist who never accomplish anything and only argue about ideals? /s
I wouldn’t remember this idiot if he didn’t register and use accounts on every fucking instance making it a huge pain in the ass to block him.
just look at this nonsense. I had to zoom out to take this screenshot of my block list
The only thing positive I have to say about the dev of piefed is at least they put in a default feature to filter out cm because of that exact thing
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!
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.
The .world thread has an Adolf Hitler user and another with lots of upvotes using the R-slur. Who knew anti-communists would turn out to be racist and ableist?
@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.
I feel like it must be exhausting. Maybe I have less capacity for being perceived than the average but it’s an tonne of emotional labour to reply the way they do.
Yeah, a lot of these guys are probably losing sleep because they’re so mad about someone who they aren’t able to just hurl slurs at until they go away.
Really funny seeing the most patient person in the lemmyverse being so villainized
I’m so much meaner and I’ve never seen myself on there, I swear they go after him because he’s so patient.
It gets under their skin to not be able to easilt dismiss someone. Us mean people provide suppressing fire. Its a combined effort.
For real. If that’s your nemesis, maybe look st yourself and those you’re with
I actually love the imagery of that mixed metaphor, and it’s very fitting.
Thanks, I came up with it while writing it and noticed it was weird but also thought it eas pretty good
Lol that top comment with the ableist slur, they can’t help themselves. What a non-toxic thread I’m sure
And not even one token "not cool bro, but … " in the replies either.
Ableism is anti tankie praxis
You ain’t done nothin’ if you ain’t been called a
redtankieMy irl anarchists suck and use the term sincerely irl. I asked one what they meant by that and suddenly it wasnt an Open and Free Meeting of Minds or what fucking ever.
Don’t you understand?! We have to suppress dissenting voices to stop their echo chamber bullshit! And we need to use our authority to brutalise and crush people who disagree with us to stop their authoritarianism!
And we need to use our authority to brutalise and crush people who disagree with us to stop their authoritarianism!
Name one instance of this. Go on.
By creating an echochamber.
No!!! It’s those damn tankies who have an echo chamber, not us! That’s why we need to defederate from them and block them all so we never have to hear any opinions that disagree with ours!
We love our @Cowbee@hexbear.net don’t we folks
nazi.world at it again, comrade Cowbee lives rent free in the heads of these 
