Cripple. History Major. Vaguely Left-Wing.
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13·10 hours agoI guess it doesn’t matter. What matters is getting giant jets on that dry-dock pronto!
572·1 day agolmao, imagine bothering to ban someone from unrelated communities because you were mad at a comment they made.
It was a great idea - let the troops check how much ammo remained in the mag. Shame about the whole “Real world conditions” thing.
Still up for me, looks like. Using Chrome in the USA here.
It was posted only a minute before his comment as I’d gotten distracted for a few minutes after posting the pic; the link probably wasn’t up when he was typing the question.
and 2000 years ago Roman soldiers were paid with cocaine.
Goddammit, reject modernity, return to tradition! What a golden age!
Soviet opening up a dead Nazi: “C’mon, Luger, Luger, Luger… rare skin, fuckin’ score!”
Don’t think I have an answer off the top of my head, but I wish you luck! Examining language and its relation to reality and implication is always a worthy endeavor.
I lack the vocabulary to express why I don’t like the term and want better ways to describe this type of subject.
Might be because tankie is sometimes used as a ‘thought terminating cliche’ - you say someone’s a tankie, and then voila, you don’t have to deal with them. End of.
That’s not how it should be used, of course. If you accuse someone of being a tankie fuck, it should be to highlight what you are dealing with - “This is pattern recognition - don’t be fooled into thinking their motivations are to ‘just ask questions’ or whatever the excuse du jour is, they’re fascists painted red who consistently argue for fascism, and their arguments should be studied and refuted with that in mind, not viewed independent of context”
But people, even people on the same ‘side’ as oneself, often prefer the easy path of a thought-terminating cliche.
They’re interchangeable tankie fuckwads. It doesn’t matter what their names are, they all regurgitate the same lines. Besides, I’d rather not fuel their persecution complex.
The first is comical. The second I don’t get. That looks like sarcastic satire to me.
It’s not. They go on to justify East German guards gunning down escaping civilians as ‘preventing imperialism’ and a host of other questionable things.
Why ostracise people that see things differently unless those things are comically wrong?
You see the issue, or part of it. Some people overuse the word ‘tankie’ to mean ‘left person I don’t like’, but actual tankies - typically MLs or MLMs - hold incredibly vile and wrong views. I went onto lemmy.ml the other day to see, out of morbid curiousity, what they were saying about the war in Ukraine. A lot of “NATO PROXY WAR” and “UKRONAZIS” style discourse. Heinous shit. That’s not the kind of stuff you say “Agree to disagree” about, it’s not the kind of thing you give any sort of respect or legitimacy to; it’s the kind of thing you shine a light on and scatter whenever you see it.
Even the CCP admits that some protesters were killed. Wild that Western tankies dial up the denialism even past that.
Okay Dr. Toboggan
That’s cool af
Just posing for a photo - they’re both air crew, so they’d normally be in a plane anyway.
So glad someone got it lmao
Most likely, yes!