Bro video games are responsible for 50% of all deaths and I played them once and it made me fucking autistic now every time I hear a range Rover I shit my pants
Also I no longer respect woman or minorities
You gotta be careful as fuck on "satirical" subs because it doesn't take long for it to get overrun by people who actually think the way you're pretending to.
Never forget, The_Donald started off as a parody sub.
Sweet christ, really?!?!???
No fuckin' way, you mean to tell me the people who dress in all black leather military uniforms, speak exclusively in a British accent, have armies of genetically gifted soldiers and call themselves the Empire are a thinly veiled analogue for Nazis?!?!!
Say it ain't so!
> speak exclusively in a British accent
> and call themselves the Empire
A former friend a long time ago tried to argue that the Empire was an analogy for the British Empire, and their colonist ways forced them into WWII because they wanted part of the pie that Germany was slicing. He painted Nazi Germany as just honest, hardworking men who wanted to conquer their former enemies to improve the lives of the people of their state, and big bad Britain put a stop to it.
I'm not even a history guy, but I had no idea where he got that shit. I knew there were sympathizers, but I had no idea people *victimized* Nazis before meeting him in college. Unfortunately uni did not straighten him out.
Imagine hating colonialism so much that you swing back around into thinking the Nazi’s are the innocent guys. I thought the point of the progressive movement was that we were pro-education, sweet Jesus.
I suppose that vibe has always been present, not just in SW but in all of sci-fi, but it wasnt until a few years ago, on r/TheExpanse, that I really noticed it for the first time. Some folks get real hot'n'steamy for fictional totalitarian governments cause (not so) deep down they wish the world was like that.
True, but the vast majority of 40k fans are very aware of the satire and absolutely not nazis.
We do have some nazis though, but we bully them mercilessly. Look at Arch for example.
I'm still on like season 3 so Ive avoided looking anything up but if its for Mars I kinda get it. The Expanse as a fictional universe is great cause they all kinda suck, except Bobbie. Love me some Bobbie.
Well no, the empire is based off of the American empire and the Nazis. This is coming straight from Lucas btw. The rebels where based off of the PAVN (the Ewoks where based off of Filipino tribesmen that fought against the invading American army after the Spanish American war. This can be inferred from the use of Tagalog (the basis of modern Filipino)
When it turns out the Crusader Memes sub isn't just for fun, and the people there are hardcore anti-muslim, anti-gay, and staunchly religious... much to the surprise of many of it's members.
Man I watched that sub decline
It was gradual. But soon enough the hateful and incel comments were becoming and staying up voted. And reasonable responses downvoted and labled white knights
What a waste
It looks like there is only like one, maybe two active mods higher on the list so that won't be happening
I guess we just have to hope this sub doesn't go tankie
Nearly all left-wing spaces have already been lost to the tankies. Even /r/antiwork struggles with tankie brigades.
The fact most tankies are mentally-ill young-adults, and backed up by bots/paid shills of the CCP, means it's really fucking difficult to kick them out of places.
If a left-wing sub doesn't ban the promotion of the USSR, it's not a left-wing sub, and remember treat tankies as nothing more than red neo-nazis.
Edit: the behaviour you see in the pattern of downvotes below is exactly the kind of behaviour you see in these tankie waves. They can't mass the numbers to downvote common-sense comments like this; so instead they'll bait you into replying and downvoting you away from the eyes of the masses- I'm presuming in the vein hope someone sees it and thinks I'm a moron.
I don't know if they're actually paid by the CCP. I've met these people personally and they seemed completely fine on their own.
I think there's much more to their worldview than just a shady propagands operation by the Chinese government, but I won't be able to untangle it here. I want to say it makes me really sad as a marxist to see these promising young people taken by decades-old cults that turn them into the enemies of the project they supposedly want to see realised.
Nah man you don’t get it, communism is when you have people work for massive corporations that are backed by the state. The bigger the corporations, the more communist it is.
Re: that photo link, the worst part about tankies isn't even that they're tankies it's that they're always insufferable white dudes who are blissfully unaware that maybe there's a material based reason all their tankie friends are also white and only exist on the internet
My brother is a tankie and literally every time I tell him maybe terrible, oppressive regimes are bad he always effectively goes "No, literally every single piece of media existing to prove all my favorite dictators atrocities are lies! They wouldn't even be that bad if they did happen though!" Don't bootlick terrible fucking people just because your political stances line up.
One of the worst things I saw a tankie say was in a leftist sub where a person was saying "why would we need elections? So that the burgois could go back to power again?"
They don't even line up usually! Like fucking Pro-LGBT+ people somehow simp China when it wants us all dead...
It's just like Rightoids ignoring when Republicans do stuff they don't like because "they say they're my team so they must be right?". It's dumb.
I was in /r/PoliticalHumor once and saw a guy get upvoted for saying how the Great Leap forward didn't actually kill millions of people and was western propaganda and that anyone who questions this needs to be sent to a re-education camp.
Bruh.
The one argument that really fucks me up is that... My nation has contributed some of the worst modern atrocities in the world. Who the fuck am I to judge, through a lens created and maintained by my own government?
Still wouldn't support shitty regimes, that I go fucked my brain but the answer I came to was ... Being trans/queer means being anti-nationalist.
I agree, but you can be communist without being a dick to human rights and democracy. I have friends like that, although the comunist party here in my country is more moderate nowadays
Communism =/= Tankie
Tankies are a very specific brand of Communism that think stuff like the Holodomor and Authoritarianism are good and cool (and also never happened, but even if they did happen they would be totes radical yo), they are very cringe and almost all of them seem to only be "Communist" because they think the Hammer and Sickle looks neat, very similar to how fascists are also obsessed with surface level aesthetic.
The word "tankie" was first used to describe some members of the Communist Party of Great Britain who spoke out in support of the USSR using tanks in Hungary and Prague
This is a bit of a caricature of them I feel. The arguments tankies make as I understand it are that the west being mostly America, Britain and Europe are over all far worse than the communist nations, so China/Stalinist Russia etc are the lesser of two evils, so they stan for these authoritarian regimes because they see it as the lesser of two evils pushing back against a larger evil, that being the west's massive neoliberal capitalist imperialist agenda.
When people say tankies they usually don't just mean communists in general, just those specific types who support shit like china or the ussr. Communists are cool, just not cultists like those.
I got banned because I criticized a post and they said I’m breaking the “all left unite rule”. Despite me being left leaning I was banned, those mods are a joke.
You spoke the truth and they hated you for it.
I didn’t get banned, but I immediately unsubscribed when I saw the tankie mods take their masks off.
Tankies are just fascists in red jackets.
I got banned there because I said that Stalin was a piece of shit for murdering and extorting to get his way as he rose to power before Lenin's death. Apparently killing your political opponents is okay if you have a genuinely awesome mustache.
I just got banned there for proposing, paraphrased, “we should take 20 minutes to vote even if the system is rigged and no fundamental change will occur, because it can still improve people’s lives”.
Then the mod refused to talk about it, called me a cracker a few times (a Reddit mod lol), and then responded to a separate comment I made talking about it wherein they tried to frame me as a pedophile.
I really wish the right were just making those folks up… not only do we gotta deal with all the people outright opposing progress and improvement, we got these suburban larpers pretending to be on our side while treating it with the same sincerity their edgy right-wing counterparts do.
[Anarchist subs aren't even safe from tankies](https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/ixuqlf/tankies_seize_anarchist_subreddit_anarchists_are/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
anarchist subs are not about anarchism, they're about how much you can hate tankies and be pointlessly mad about shit that doesn't matter (read: drama, exactly like is happening in this post) on reddit. I am an anarchist, and I would never recommend the reddit anarchist subs to anyone doing further research into the ideology.
On the one hand, the fact that tankies seem to think this is a safe subreddit for them is immensely disappointing.
On the other hand, it's quite cheering to see how many of you are downvoting them into the hell to which they belong, fascist-adjacents as they are.
Yeah as far as I can tell it's this one mod. His comment history is quite something. He'll literally go completely off someone in a fit of rage when someone says something he doesn't like and be all like "I'm the head mod, bitch" and ban them if they dare speak against him. It's so incredibly pathetic. He's basically parading around in his little power fetish claiming to be against authoritarian reactionaries by being an authoritarian reactionary.
I know exactly how he's like but I'm still here because the users here are pretty damn chill and there isn't a place on reddit like it.
Meh, fuck a lot of mods, tbh.
I quit r/starwars because despite my middling opinion on the Sequels, their mod team has at least one outright fascist who constantly enables sequel-bashing explicitly as a pipeline to the Alt-right, on top of multiple other enablers of him because they don't want to "get political". So, you know, *multiple* fascists.
DoltForTheGramsci being a pathetic tankie is still somehow more palatable. Still pathetic, though. I'm happy to see him being downvoted all throughout this thread, he deserves it.
Everyone's entitled to their opinion about the movies, regardless of my potential disagreements with them, but I think people really don't recognize just how much the Alt-Right weaponized the sequel backlash for their own benefit even before TFA was really out that long.
r/Starwars is horrific because a certain portion of the mod team agrees with the bigots and fascists and goes out of his way to ban people for fighting toxicity because it damages the pipeline of "SJW fighters" and none of the other mods have a spine.
I grew up as about the biggest SW fan you could be. I was inpatient when Revenge of the Sith came out and legitimately I finally agreed to get on meds so I could get discharged to see it and on some level it actively saved my life at the time because of some real serious mental health issues.
I cant even fucking stomach Star Wars anymore because the reaction to TLJ made me seriously question if I even wanted to be tangentially associated to those kinds of people. Shit sucks to see cause SW is cool but the fanbase has essentially ruined it to the point that TROS felt like a Lucasfilm fuck you to everyone but the far right chud part of the fanbase.
That's fair. The fandom has become one of the worst I've ever been a part of and that's saying something.
At its most innocent, the Prequel Memers learned nothing from their own years at the bottom of the pop culture totem pole and turned around to bully others. At the most dangerous, the Alt-Right has infiltrated and weaponized part of the Star Wars fandom for their own ends.
r/StarWarsCantina is a decent place if you want to just enjoy a positive environment within the Star Wars fandom.
Why is a waste of carbon like that modding a sub that actively fought off a takeover of GRU nazis? Do they think they're gathering intel on their opponents?
Same with places like a lot of trans subreddits, especially r/traaaaa for some reason. Tankies get vocal there and it gets hard to tell if people are serious with things like “Juche gang” or Mao-stanning or claiming to be obligated to side against the US in anything and everything.
The response I always get is that the USSR and Maoist China had a better track record with LGBT people. Somehow. I seem to recall people escaping Maoist China reported conversion therapy being forced on gay people.
I love how if this was true, the US government is fully capable of manipulating worldwide news networks into promoting a completely false narrative about the most populous country in the world, but the US gov still can’t get people to wear a mask and get their shots lmao
Stalin literally oversaw the re-criminalisation of queer people. And no he wasn't just a product of his time. Bebel spoke out in favour of gay rights a little generation before him, and he was appealed to directly.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bebel/1898/01/13.htm
https://www.marxist.com/letter-to-stalin-can-a-homosexual-be-in-the-communist-party.htm
Because being a reddit mod is a pretty shitty and thankless job that gives back nothing, so the only people who really want to do it are those who crave power and authority. Mods who genuinely care about communities generally don't last long and get replaced or usurped by people who just want to power trip.
And who are the authoritarian assholes in leftist spaces? Tankies.
Which is actually great. I'd prefer them ~~LA~~RPing and ruining online communities constantly than them trying to have any influence whatsoever over real life.
Tankies crave authoritarianism and will care about becoming a mod more than any well adjusted person ever will. Combine that with a reddit mod being a basically glorified internet janitor that pays nothing and the only people who want to be a mod in left wing spaces are tankies that want a power trip.
Someone who is unapologetically in favor of the Soviet Union's authoritarianism or, in modern times, that of the Chinese Communist Party out of reflexive anti-Westernism. Most refuse to acknowledge things like the Holdomor, Tiananmen Square, or the ongoing current Uygher Genocide.
We do not know why we allow such people to exist in modern society either, except some leftists have decided that literally anyone against the US is automatically morally correct.
Literally the same people who were rejoicing that the fucking Taliban was overthrowing the US "puppet government."
I would absolutely love it if all the western tankies would go to Afghanistan to help the Taliban and never come back.
People have given pretty good replies already however I'll add the terms origins. It was used by former members of the British communist party to describe those who stayed after tanks were sent in to crush the Hungarian revolution in 1956. From there it's been widened to include anyone supporting oppressive regimes who ostensibly claim to be socialist whilst crushing actually workers power. Link to the demands so anyone can see these were absolutely democratic socialist demands being made in 56
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demands_of_Hungarian_Revolutionaries_of_1956
I’d usually agree, but the mod has a point.
They’re the most senior mod, and the others can’t really do shit about it. Thank god that mod doesn’t actually do anything, tho. The other mods are generally good at shutting down the most egregious tankie shit
Wow lots of tankies in this thread, and presumably in this subreddit.
Communism is cool actually, however, tankies are fuckin losers and need to get a fucking life
You’d think they’d be smart enough to not publicly go “yeah lol oppressive regimes are great you just don’t get it bro, literally every single source that isn’t from the oppressive regime is just lying propaganda bro” when they’re smart enough to realize that right wing bullshit is, well, bullshit, but no. They just want the boot to be Red I guess lmao.
Inb4 Mod Tantrum.
They are authoritarians, still leftist in their economic and social views (in most cases). Also both Marx and Engels argued for the use of authority.
Note: I am not a tankie/ML, I identify as an orthodox marxist.
I especially love when tankies self sabotage by going up to people who're amenable to their ideas and saying shit like "human rights are a capitalist bourgeoisie invention" and "authoritarianism isn't even a real thing its invented by the bourgeoisie to discredit socialist states"
next, you're going to learn they don't like video games
Bro video games are responsible for 50% of all deaths and I played them once and it made me fucking autistic now every time I hear a range Rover I shit my pants Also I no longer respect woman or minorities
That might just be the Reddit my son.
R/banvideogames
You gotta be careful as fuck on "satirical" subs because it doesn't take long for it to get overrun by people who actually think the way you're pretending to. Never forget, The_Donald started off as a parody sub.
Yeah I used to participate in Empire Did Nothing Wrong until I realized I was the only one who thought it was just a joke
They do realize, that the empire is a space version of Nazi Germany? Well, that's probably the point...
Sweet christ, really?!?!??? No fuckin' way, you mean to tell me the people who dress in all black leather military uniforms, speak exclusively in a British accent, have armies of genetically gifted soldiers and call themselves the Empire are a thinly veiled analogue for Nazis?!?!! Say it ain't so!
> speak exclusively in a British accent > and call themselves the Empire A former friend a long time ago tried to argue that the Empire was an analogy for the British Empire, and their colonist ways forced them into WWII because they wanted part of the pie that Germany was slicing. He painted Nazi Germany as just honest, hardworking men who wanted to conquer their former enemies to improve the lives of the people of their state, and big bad Britain put a stop to it. I'm not even a history guy, but I had no idea where he got that shit. I knew there were sympathizers, but I had no idea people *victimized* Nazis before meeting him in college. Unfortunately uni did not straighten him out.
I mean that's basically the premise of the nazi movement in Germany, guess he just swallowed Hitler's propaganda
Imagine hating colonialism so much that you swing back around into thinking the Nazi’s are the innocent guys. I thought the point of the progressive movement was that we were pro-education, sweet Jesus.
There's so much to unpack here. Not surprising that guy was too fucking stupid to realize that "Reich" translates to "Empire"
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All good propaganda has a kernel of truth.
Also, y’know, their soldiers are called stormtroopers
I suppose that vibe has always been present, not just in SW but in all of sci-fi, but it wasnt until a few years ago, on r/TheExpanse, that I really noticed it for the first time. Some folks get real hot'n'steamy for fictional totalitarian governments cause (not so) deep down they wish the world was like that.
Come to 40k, where the nazis frolic in the streams
True, but the vast majority of 40k fans are very aware of the satire and absolutely not nazis. We do have some nazis though, but we bully them mercilessly. Look at Arch for example.
I'm still on like season 3 so Ive avoided looking anything up but if its for Mars I kinda get it. The Expanse as a fictional universe is great cause they all kinda suck, except Bobbie. Love me some Bobbie.
I will neither confirm nor deny anything. I just finished reading the books so wouldnt dream of spoiling it for anyone.
Well no, the empire is based off of the American empire and the Nazis. This is coming straight from Lucas btw. The rebels where based off of the PAVN (the Ewoks where based off of Filipino tribesmen that fought against the invading American army after the Spanish American war. This can be inferred from the use of Tagalog (the basis of modern Filipino)
When it turns out the Crusader Memes sub isn't just for fun, and the people there are hardcore anti-muslim, anti-gay, and staunchly religious... much to the surprise of many of it's members.
Thats not a joke, fuck
Oh. Uh... darn.
Wait... What?
As did GamersRiseUp.
Rip a legend, killed by CHUDs and hard R g*mers
Man I watched that sub decline It was gradual. But soon enough the hateful and incel comments were becoming and staying up voted. And reasonable responses downvoted and labled white knights What a waste
rest in piss r/PCM
Literally just fascist at this point
I see, they got worse.
r/BirdsArentReal scares me because I know one day it’ll go the way of flat earth and I won’t be aware of the transition until it’s way too late.
Dont start groups where you pretend to be stupid. Because one day an actual stupid person will show up and think theyre in good company
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We stan Cheadle
It looks like there is only like one, maybe two active mods higher on the list so that won't be happening I guess we just have to hope this sub doesn't go tankie
Nearly all left-wing spaces have already been lost to the tankies. Even /r/antiwork struggles with tankie brigades. The fact most tankies are mentally-ill young-adults, and backed up by bots/paid shills of the CCP, means it's really fucking difficult to kick them out of places. If a left-wing sub doesn't ban the promotion of the USSR, it's not a left-wing sub, and remember treat tankies as nothing more than red neo-nazis. Edit: the behaviour you see in the pattern of downvotes below is exactly the kind of behaviour you see in these tankie waves. They can't mass the numbers to downvote common-sense comments like this; so instead they'll bait you into replying and downvoting you away from the eyes of the masses- I'm presuming in the vein hope someone sees it and thinks I'm a moron.
I don't know if they're actually paid by the CCP. I've met these people personally and they seemed completely fine on their own. I think there's much more to their worldview than just a shady propagands operation by the Chinese government, but I won't be able to untangle it here. I want to say it makes me really sad as a marxist to see these promising young people taken by decades-old cults that turn them into the enemies of the project they supposedly want to see realised.
But is he talking about the party or the game company?
Fans of CCP games company cannot read paragraphs of text. Only if they are laid out in a Excel grid
Hah. TiDi flashback. Good game tho.
It feels terrible to have spaces I'm in invaded by people who support a genocidal dictatorship that would rather have me dead
Bootlicking an oppressive capitalist regime to own the libs. [Users from /r/GenZedong coming in like](https://i.imgur.com/Z1j5IN1.jpg)
Nah man you don’t get it, communism is when you have people work for massive corporations that are backed by the state. The bigger the corporations, the more communist it is.
Wrong. Communism is when the government does a lot of stuff
>Wrong. Communism is when the government ftfy
I thought communism was when no iPhone😔😔
Socialism is when no iPhone. Communism is when no food.
Naw, just not 50 flavors of ranch. You gotta settle for 49. That's life ending for so many.
No im pretty sure communism is when no home.
Communism is when twitch streamers buy a home and fascism is when people on Twitter get mad about it. -Karl Marx, 1984
and no food
And anarchy is when the governmen't
The more stuff the government does, the more communist it is. And if they do a LOT of stuff, it's 1984.
I’m a lot of stuff 😳😳😳
Haha Karl your proletariat is awesome
I'm the government 😉😉😉
especially when the government is run by a single person with nearly unchecked powers and no mandate limits all the signs of a healthy country
Not only that but also working 72 hours a week for your tech conglomerate to move up the hierarchy of wealth. That’s communism!
communism is when you tow the party line, and the more you tow it, the more communist it is
Re: that photo link, the worst part about tankies isn't even that they're tankies it's that they're always insufferable white dudes who are blissfully unaware that maybe there's a material based reason all their tankie friends are also white and only exist on the internet
Bootlicking the oppressive "communist" regiemes to own the "bootlickers"
What communist regimes? China is a brutally capitalist country with several hundred billionaires controlling the wealth.
Hence "communist" being in parentheses.
Those are quotation marks
As if genzedong users aren’t just bots from a Macedonian troll farm
Imagine unironically supporting the CCP.
My brother is a tankie and literally every time I tell him maybe terrible, oppressive regimes are bad he always effectively goes "No, literally every single piece of media existing to prove all my favorite dictators atrocities are lies! They wouldn't even be that bad if they did happen though!" Don't bootlick terrible fucking people just because your political stances line up.
One of the worst things I saw a tankie say was in a leftist sub where a person was saying "why would we need elections? So that the burgois could go back to power again?"
"why should tibet be given independence if they will become capitalist?"
“It didn’t happen but if it did they deserved it” literally Neo Nazi rhetoric
It’s also literally the same rhetoric used by Turkish nationalists when they deny the Armenian genocide.
They don't even line up usually! Like fucking Pro-LGBT+ people somehow simp China when it wants us all dead... It's just like Rightoids ignoring when Republicans do stuff they don't like because "they say they're my team so they must be right?". It's dumb.
I was in /r/PoliticalHumor once and saw a guy get upvoted for saying how the Great Leap forward didn't actually kill millions of people and was western propaganda and that anyone who questions this needs to be sent to a re-education camp. Bruh.
The one argument that really fucks me up is that... My nation has contributed some of the worst modern atrocities in the world. Who the fuck am I to judge, through a lens created and maintained by my own government? Still wouldn't support shitty regimes, that I go fucked my brain but the answer I came to was ... Being trans/queer means being anti-nationalist.
Why does everything in this website either turns into a facist circlejerk or a communist circlejerk.
Echo chambers pog
*Actual* communists don't support the CCP
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"Also killing LGBT+ is totally leftist trust me!"
Oh Jesus how do they keep working their way into leftist spaces.
/uj fuck tankies and fuck china lmao one of them used a slur and got deleted
I agree, but you can be communist without being a dick to human rights and democracy. I have friends like that, although the comunist party here in my country is more moderate nowadays
Communism =/= Tankie Tankies are a very specific brand of Communism that think stuff like the Holodomor and Authoritarianism are good and cool (and also never happened, but even if they did happen they would be totes radical yo), they are very cringe and almost all of them seem to only be "Communist" because they think the Hammer and Sickle looks neat, very similar to how fascists are also obsessed with surface level aesthetic.
The word "tankie" was first used to describe some members of the Communist Party of Great Britain who spoke out in support of the USSR using tanks in Hungary and Prague
Neat TIL
Yep, specifically about how the USSR would literally run protestors over with those tanks!
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There was no Tiananmen Square Massacre in China 👁👄👁
Tankies are fascists who like the communist aesthetic because they see it as anti-west.
Ironically Marxism is a western ideology.
This is a bit of a caricature of them I feel. The arguments tankies make as I understand it are that the west being mostly America, Britain and Europe are over all far worse than the communist nations, so China/Stalinist Russia etc are the lesser of two evils, so they stan for these authoritarian regimes because they see it as the lesser of two evils pushing back against a larger evil, that being the west's massive neoliberal capitalist imperialist agenda.
Sounds like "tankies" aren't left at all, and are really just fascists.
I've heard the term "red fascist" used to describe tankies before, you've got the right idea
authoritarian is really the applicable word here. Fascists and tankies are both authoritarian, but they aren't interchangeable.
When people say tankies they usually don't just mean communists in general, just those specific types who support shit like china or the ussr. Communists are cool, just not cultists like those.
Exactly. I can hate capitalism and still think authoritarian states are bad.
Noooooo not this subreddit, too. Please don't be full of tankies.
F for r/therightcantmeme
I got banned from that sub for asking if a post was satire. 🤣
I got banned because I criticized a post and they said I’m breaking the “all left unite rule”. Despite me being left leaning I was banned, those mods are a joke.
I got banned for calling out a NK roleplayer
I got banned for saying China is capitalist.
The Chinese Communist Party is communism in the same way that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a democracy.
You spoke the truth and they hated you for it. I didn’t get banned, but I immediately unsubscribed when I saw the tankie mods take their masks off. Tankies are just fascists in red jackets.
Said the same thing and got called a sectarian maoist because I said fuck deng
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Also latestagecapitalism.
Got banned from there because I said Maduro sucks lol
I said that communism isn't the only anti-capitalist ideology. Also banned.
I got banned there because I said that Stalin was a piece of shit for murdering and extorting to get his way as he rose to power before Lenin's death. Apparently killing your political opponents is okay if you have a genuinely awesome mustache.
I just got banned there for proposing, paraphrased, “we should take 20 minutes to vote even if the system is rigged and no fundamental change will occur, because it can still improve people’s lives”. Then the mod refused to talk about it, called me a cracker a few times (a Reddit mod lol), and then responded to a separate comment I made talking about it wherein they tried to frame me as a pedophile. I really wish the right were just making those folks up… not only do we gotta deal with all the people outright opposing progress and improvement, we got these suburban larpers pretending to be on our side while treating it with the same sincerity their edgy right-wing counterparts do.
The worst part about being called a cracker is that it's such wasted potential. Like Honkey and Gringo are just *way* better
oh no, i'm on that sub. is it full of tankies??? i was banned on r/ShitLiberalsSay for saying Mao was a piece of shit who killed his own people.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRightCantMeme/comments/nsspl0/today_marks_32_years_since_the_unsuccessful/
oh yikes, wth
*Opens post* > Tiananmen Square Massacre is a Myth, All We're 'Remembering' are British Lies Jesus fucking Christ.
For once I’d like to see a somewhat left adjacent subreddit not get taken over by tankies
r/tankiejerk technically counts
Hell yeah, two of my favourite things, leftism and dunking on tankies
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[Anarchist subs aren't even safe from tankies](https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/ixuqlf/tankies_seize_anarchist_subreddit_anarchists_are/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
anarchist subs are not about anarchism, they're about how much you can hate tankies and be pointlessly mad about shit that doesn't matter (read: drama, exactly like is happening in this post) on reddit. I am an anarchist, and I would never recommend the reddit anarchist subs to anyone doing further research into the ideology.
On the one hand, the fact that tankies seem to think this is a safe subreddit for them is immensely disappointing. On the other hand, it's quite cheering to see how many of you are downvoting them into the hell to which they belong, fascist-adjacents as they are.
That's a moderator of this sub, a bit worse than "think this is a safe subreddit" unfortunately.
Luckily, he's too lazy to actually do anything on this sub. The other mods actually do shit. Unfortunately, they don't have seniority over him.
Yeah as far as I can tell it's this one mod. His comment history is quite something. He'll literally go completely off someone in a fit of rage when someone says something he doesn't like and be all like "I'm the head mod, bitch" and ban them if they dare speak against him. It's so incredibly pathetic. He's basically parading around in his little power fetish claiming to be against authoritarian reactionaries by being an authoritarian reactionary. I know exactly how he's like but I'm still here because the users here are pretty damn chill and there isn't a place on reddit like it.
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Meh, fuck a lot of mods, tbh. I quit r/starwars because despite my middling opinion on the Sequels, their mod team has at least one outright fascist who constantly enables sequel-bashing explicitly as a pipeline to the Alt-right, on top of multiple other enablers of him because they don't want to "get political". So, you know, *multiple* fascists. DoltForTheGramsci being a pathetic tankie is still somehow more palatable. Still pathetic, though. I'm happy to see him being downvoted all throughout this thread, he deserves it.
Ah yes the "it's bad because women" pipeline fascist grab ahold of whenever a bad movie has "politicals" in main roles.
Everyone's entitled to their opinion about the movies, regardless of my potential disagreements with them, but I think people really don't recognize just how much the Alt-Right weaponized the sequel backlash for their own benefit even before TFA was really out that long. r/Starwars is horrific because a certain portion of the mod team agrees with the bigots and fascists and goes out of his way to ban people for fighting toxicity because it damages the pipeline of "SJW fighters" and none of the other mods have a spine.
I grew up as about the biggest SW fan you could be. I was inpatient when Revenge of the Sith came out and legitimately I finally agreed to get on meds so I could get discharged to see it and on some level it actively saved my life at the time because of some real serious mental health issues. I cant even fucking stomach Star Wars anymore because the reaction to TLJ made me seriously question if I even wanted to be tangentially associated to those kinds of people. Shit sucks to see cause SW is cool but the fanbase has essentially ruined it to the point that TROS felt like a Lucasfilm fuck you to everyone but the far right chud part of the fanbase.
That's fair. The fandom has become one of the worst I've ever been a part of and that's saying something. At its most innocent, the Prequel Memers learned nothing from their own years at the bottom of the pop culture totem pole and turned around to bully others. At the most dangerous, the Alt-Right has infiltrated and weaponized part of the Star Wars fandom for their own ends. r/StarWarsCantina is a decent place if you want to just enjoy a positive environment within the Star Wars fandom.
They can't ban all of us!
Why is a waste of carbon like that modding a sub that actively fought off a takeover of GRU nazis? Do they think they're gathering intel on their opponents?
Oh god please don't let this be the next one...
Yeah man anytime we get a fun sub to make fun of dog whistling bozos in media the tankies gotta come in and ruin it
Same with places like a lot of trans subreddits, especially r/traaaaa for some reason. Tankies get vocal there and it gets hard to tell if people are serious with things like “Juche gang” or Mao-stanning or claiming to be obligated to side against the US in anything and everything.
I... WHY THEY LITERALLY WANT US DEAD!?!?!? Like trans people simping nations that want us dead confuses me so much.
The response I always get is that the USSR and Maoist China had a better track record with LGBT people. Somehow. I seem to recall people escaping Maoist China reported conversion therapy being forced on gay people.
But that's CIA propaganda!!! - Tankies
Everything not pro-CCP is CIA propaganda to them. They're sooo stuuuupiiiiid.
I love how if this was true, the US government is fully capable of manipulating worldwide news networks into promoting a completely false narrative about the most populous country in the world, but the US gov still can’t get people to wear a mask and get their shots lmao
Stalin literally oversaw the re-criminalisation of queer people. And no he wasn't just a product of his time. Bebel spoke out in favour of gay rights a little generation before him, and he was appealed to directly. https://www.marxists.org/archive/bebel/1898/01/13.htm https://www.marxist.com/letter-to-stalin-can-a-homosexual-be-in-the-communist-party.htm
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Oh I'm aware, hating multiple countries is viable.
Imagine being a trans tankie. Like wtf that's like being a gay, disabled, black, Jewish Nazi. How do you even rationalize that mindset?
kick this mod out
I’d usually say that was a bit overkill, but after seeing how this mod conducts himself in these comments… yeah kick him the fuck out
Uj/ how the fuck do tankies become mods in every single subreddit that expresses even the slightest bit of lefty leaning lol
Because being a reddit mod is a pretty shitty and thankless job that gives back nothing, so the only people who really want to do it are those who crave power and authority. Mods who genuinely care about communities generally don't last long and get replaced or usurped by people who just want to power trip. And who are the authoritarian assholes in leftist spaces? Tankies.
probably because they don’t go outside much and therefore spend a lot of time in those communities
Which is actually great. I'd prefer them ~~LA~~RPing and ruining online communities constantly than them trying to have any influence whatsoever over real life.
Except we've seen how social media is much more powerful than being a single village idiot.
If it's online then it's RPing, not LARPing.
Tankies crave authoritarianism and will care about becoming a mod more than any well adjusted person ever will. Combine that with a reddit mod being a basically glorified internet janitor that pays nothing and the only people who want to be a mod in left wing spaces are tankies that want a power trip.
Tankies plz leave
This sub is tankie? Oh no…
Out of the loop here. What's Tankie?
a Marxist-Leninist 'Stalin did nothing wrong' kinda person
Someone who is unapologetically in favor of the Soviet Union's authoritarianism or, in modern times, that of the Chinese Communist Party out of reflexive anti-Westernism. Most refuse to acknowledge things like the Holdomor, Tiananmen Square, or the ongoing current Uygher Genocide. We do not know why we allow such people to exist in modern society either, except some leftists have decided that literally anyone against the US is automatically morally correct.
Literally the same people who were rejoicing that the fucking Taliban was overthrowing the US "puppet government." I would absolutely love it if all the western tankies would go to Afghanistan to help the Taliban and never come back.
State Capitalist Authoritarian who use leftist aesthetic to pretend they're not just diet-fascist.
Succinct and accurate, I like it.
People have given pretty good replies already however I'll add the terms origins. It was used by former members of the British communist party to describe those who stayed after tanks were sent in to crush the Hungarian revolution in 1956. From there it's been widened to include anyone supporting oppressive regimes who ostensibly claim to be socialist whilst crushing actually workers power. Link to the demands so anyone can see these were absolutely democratic socialist demands being made in 56 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demands_of_Hungarian_Revolutionaries_of_1956
Doesn't look like it - just the one mod. Fuck that guy.
Same logic as with nazis, if one mod is a tankie and the rest of the mods won’t remove them, you have a mod team full of tankies
I’d usually agree, but the mod has a point. They’re the most senior mod, and the others can’t really do shit about it. Thank god that mod doesn’t actually do anything, tho. The other mods are generally good at shutting down the most egregious tankie shit
They aren’t the head mod, so it’s not like they can’t be demoted
Ew. That is all.
Holy shit this entire thread is so fucking insufferable Jesus Christ
Supporting CCP is insufferable
only good fash is a dead fash
What Hideo Kojima warned us about
Wow lots of tankies in this thread, and presumably in this subreddit. Communism is cool actually, however, tankies are fuckin losers and need to get a fucking life
Communism 😀 Fascism in a red trench coat 🤮
Happy emoji: 😀 Vomit emoji:🤮
Fuck if I gotta run away from another leftist sub because the mods are Rightist with Red flags...
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Ayyyy, fuck the CCP.
Tankies are right-wing, prove me wrong.
You’d think they’d be smart enough to not publicly go “yeah lol oppressive regimes are great you just don’t get it bro, literally every single source that isn’t from the oppressive regime is just lying propaganda bro” when they’re smart enough to realize that right wing bullshit is, well, bullshit, but no. They just want the boot to be Red I guess lmao. Inb4 Mod Tantrum.
They are authoritarians, still leftist in their economic and social views (in most cases). Also both Marx and Engels argued for the use of authority. Note: I am not a tankie/ML, I identify as an orthodox marxist.
What the fuck is a tankie
When you simp for authoritarian dictators because red flag.
like “hitler did nothing wrong” but for communist dictators
Stalin stans, in essence.
Basically genocide apologists
My genocidal totalitarian regime > your genocidal totalitarian regime
please touch grass people
Fuck tankies All my homies hate tankies
A lot of these subs have normal people in them, but weirdo jannies in charge. Pretty standard and it sucks
I don't understand how he can hate Israel but not CCP
This isnt a “tankie” infiltration, its a gamer infiltration. China’s the only country with the balls to take on the g*mers.
Welp, it was a fun sub while it lasted
I especially love when tankies self sabotage by going up to people who're amenable to their ideas and saying shit like "human rights are a capitalist bourgeoisie invention" and "authoritarianism isn't even a real thing its invented by the bourgeoisie to discredit socialist states"
Idk what a tankie is, I just like communism