I fucking hate these shitheads, I was arguing with one earlier and no matter how many facts I gave him with proper sources he just refused to actually show any kind of respect

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    Same goes for tankies.

    You cant logic someone out of a position they didnt logic themselves into.

    They believe in this horseshit because they want to, not because they think it makes any sense. They believe in it because they are scared, stupid and confused.

    I don’t try to defend them, fuck them, but after having so many arguments with tankies on lemmy I simply came to a conclusion that if I crticise ruzzia or China and someone comes to defense to them with well known propaganda “arguments” I just call them a bitchass tankie and block them

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      I remember when the whole Hexbeargate thing happened, one tankie accused a user here of being ableist for using a relatively (in my opinion) inoffensive word (it wasn’t a slur, but considering that one of the server owners found it offensive too, I’m not going to say what word it was here). You know, while defending the leaders who executed people for being disabled.

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        Typically the word refers to communists that are pro-authoritarian, pro-military force, and some amount of bizarrely nationalist.

        The word is also, confusingly, used to describe all communists (by people that don’t like communists) and several other subcategories. Really, you can’t ever guess how someone means it when you see them say it. Some people self-describe as tankie, either because they fully agree with the term, or because people call them that anyways.

        On lemmy, 90% of the time, “tankie” just literally means “someone from lemmygrad or hexbear”, which is kinda fairly earned, because that is where all the pro-authoritarian, pro-military force, bizarrely nationalist communists hang out, but to be clear, not all of the people in those communities are like that.

        Also they hate being defined this way. They will ramble for hours about how “anti-authoritarian” isn’t real or is counter productive, and more like that. While spamming weird left unity emojis every time someone mentions anarchism…

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          The word is also, confusingly, used to describe all communists (by people that don’t like communists) and several other subcategories.

          Which is hilariously ironic given the term was created by communists

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          so it isn’t necessarily bad when someone is just communist right? but obviously the problems start when they’re pro authoritarian and shit

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        They really don’t tbh, they like having the image of communism, but they support totalirian, brutal regimes like Ruzzia, China and North Korea. While all three like acting and saying they are communist, they aren’t.

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        Do yourself a favor and actually visit the scary tankie websites and see for yourself. Any information you’ll get from either sides will be biased, especially in this com.

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        basically someone with communist political views except that they support totalitarianism and will say good things about governments such as ussr and china despite never having been there