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It's exhausting... (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Are these "tankies" in the room with you now?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

This is Lemmy, so, yeah, pretty much all over.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"There's no such thing as tankies" is the weirdest doublethink propaganda I've seen in a while.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

“There’s no such thing as tankies” is the weirdest doublethink propaganda I’ve seen in a while.

Is that what you think I said? Interesting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

What do you think you said? Because I took that as questioning their existence as well.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What do you think you said? Because I took that as questioning their existence as well.

What I didn't say was "there is no such thing as tankies". And what I implied, albeit subtlety, was that people bandy about this term so freely that it can really only be taken as "people I disagree with who might be leftist-ish". The use of the term has morphed so much over many decades that it means essentially nothing.... or, "whatever I say it means".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It means: "Leftist" Who defends/supports regimes like Russia and China, and their use of Tanks to suppress thier opposition, hence the term.

It gets bandied about on Lemmy like crazy because theres a crazy amount of Tankies on Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It means: “Leftist” Who defends/supports regimes like Russia and China, and their use of Tanks to suppress thier opposition, hence the term.

LOL. Joe-bob over there thinks it means anyone who supports authoritarian & statist leftism but Sue-Ann thinks it means anybody who supports anti-Western states with a socialist history. Bubba and 8627of his friends just use it to mean, practically speaking, "leftists I think I disagree with but don't really know because this is Lemmy and I never bothered to ask".

Edit: or in other words, QED

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Doubling down, too. Fascinating.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Doubling down, too. Fascinating.

Doubling down on what tho?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The leftist fifth columnist menace is the single greatest threat to American freedom and liberty.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The leftist fifth columnist menace is the single greatest threat to American freedom and liberty.

Sure grandpa, sure. Let's get you to bed!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Not before I've finished posting to Facebook!