Sorry, I was walking drunk through the lib factory wearing a wallet chain and now some of the new ones are a little more scratched than usual.
It's funny how I don't agree with Tankies, but I don't wish them any harm. And then there are right-wingers…
what is a "tankie" to you, son?
I've seen it defined as apologists for dictatorships. This is the version that I was using when I made the comment.
Anyone to the left of Henry Kissinger
I wonder if I would have responded this way if I had found out about Lemmy a few months earlier…
Maybe read the Communist Manifesto if you haven’t read it yet — it’s not that long :)
Manifesto is an easy read, but probably not the best introduction. There was a good beginner reading list posted around here recently, I agree with their recommendation of Harman's "How Marxism Works" pamphlet. Super fast read, and can really help capture people's attention to read something a bit longer form.
Don't always agree with a lot of Harman, but he gives a really easy to understand overview.
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I used to make death threats to people over the internet. Then I realized something: either your threat is empty and you're an all-bark-no-bite cringebaby, or you're actually in a position to kill them, in which case just kill them. Making threats only leaves a paper trail.
in which case just kill them
Honestly just replace 'tankie' with 'person who doesn't help advance Western interests, primarily America,' and that'll cover all their bases.
Tankie is just "commie" for boomers. Meaningless
Oh boy, my inbox is going to look spicy the next time I criticize treats where a federated visitor can see my criticism.
The worst treat defenders are yet to come, so brace yourself for the incoming onslaught. 
I'm expecting a lot of epic logical
reactions to such criticism such as more "who hurt you?" 
and cherry-picked quotes from leftist thinkers that make it seem like everyone from Marx onward was writing a longhand version of 
"let people enjoy things. My entertainment has no effect on me which is why I'm this mad about you criticizing it. Criticizing my treats is against Materialism(tm). touch grass touch grass touch grass." 
collect em like pokemon and post em to the dunk tank so we can pile on the nerds.
Maybe you will run into some Star Citizens. That would be fun to watch.
I might.
big talk from a bugman who wont last 2 days without running water and his funko pop collection
running water should be a human right though
Not op, and I agree, but wanted to clarify what I think is that commenters thoughts and why they might have said what they said.
The point is that they don't know what it's like to not have running water, and they just can't mentally put themselves in the position of someone who doesn't have it, making it hard to emphasize and thus, fight for the rights of those people, instead of, for example, caring about if they have a new car every 3 years (or funko pops as the deprogram guys joke about).
First they came for the Funko pops, and I said "no stop"
the bugmen are cool people. this comparison is slandering their good name.
Oh look, a scratched
Jesus christ the emoji is comically huge on Lemmygrad. I love the emphasis that gives it though
this could honestly be a hilarious unintended callback to the start of Hexbear when we forked away from lemmy - for some reason, emojis used to resize/expand when you hovered over them, and the emoji for the hexbear logo was like 3000x3000
so when it wound up in one of our site taglines at random, it broke the whole page
Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds
Are we rats or a disease? Pick a pejorative and stick with it.
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The moderate wing offascism
immediately went back to playing league of legends after writing this
God damn that is ice cold lmao
CPC alone has over 90 million members who these clowns would consider "tankies". Good luck messing with the PLA.
Probably thinks the U.S. military has that covered. It would be funny to watch their reaction to the pacific fleet getting owned before the retaliatory nukes fly.
You don't even have to go that far to find people they call tankies. Just the other day I had the immense privilege of witnessing a lib call an anarchist Mastodon instance tankie because they saw someone talk about killing all billionaires
we did warn them this would happen tbf
Nothing like a little speciesism to drive the point home
They have clearly never actually met a rat because they are awesome animals. Way more intelligent and friendly than anyone give them credit for. Amazing survivors in the wild, amazing companions too.
So do these people go seeking out communist users specifically to harass them? Or was this the result of a debate directly with them?
I didn't have a debate with them. No idea from where they found me. Probably got annoyed at one of my comments.
I think you can report private messages too. Maybe lemm.ee admin decides to do something about it.
According to a beehaw admin reports aren’t federating right now
You can report DMs.
