I keep seeing “fuck tankies” everywhere, and seem to see people getting called “tankie” for any number of things–I used to feel like I knew what it meant (the formal definition, which I thought was the only application) but that’s clearly not the case anymore. Saw someone get called one because they… Liked the idea of universal basic income and wanted walkable cities? And now the same sentiment is on a large number of Lemmy communities, lol.
I feel like I’ve been living under a rock.
Edit: Wow, I guess it’s just as meaningless of a term now as it seemed. At least it’s a nice, bright flag for ghouls not worth engaging with meaningfully, lol. I saw “fuck tankies” on a genderqueer community and got pretty confused on how the two ideas correlated in the slightest, so I guess that was the tipping point on me finally asking about it.
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Define tankie
yep that’s the topic
Here’s a picture of a pig shitting on its own testicles, enjoy
Absolute cowardice, typical of tankies such as yourself
you are a gnat, you fly in peoples ears and eyes
I’m a tankie
Tankies on hexbear dot net? What are the chances of that?
Tankie is when I don’t like what someone is saying
Notice how you still haven’t defined tankie
Post examples then coward lol
No snark, genuine question: do you know what this place is?
one annoying lib telling on themselves in here lol
Care to elaborate?
Yeah ofc. The tankies on hexbear made the most trans supportive space Id experienced for a long time so I stuck around and then they got me to read theory and convinced me to become a proper communist too.
Yeah I’m a tankie what you gonna do about it?
Half a day later and not a single example posted
lmao fake dork-ass coward, if you’re gonna open your mouth at least have the courage to follow thru