I’m new as in this is my first day using lemmy. I don’t know anything about lemmy etiquette and don’t want to do anything bad

thanks and have an amazing day! also plz be kind :D

  • ultranaut@lemmy.world
    13·
    1 day ago

    That doesn’t seem true though, most actual leftists don’t like tankies and the people on Lemmy complaining about tankies seem to mostly be leftists themselves. Tankies are like LaRouchites, no one takes them seriously because the things they profess tend to be silly and they usually have that obnoxious College freshman master-debater energy. It’s not a left or right thing.

    • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      20 hours ago

      The whole point is that there isn’t really any clear cut difference between “tankies” and “actual leftists” because it’s a pejorative term that each person using it defines differently based on their own personal politics. Is critical support for Vietnam tankie? Cuba? Makhnovshchina? Ukraine? The Nordic Model? The Black Panthers? You’ll never get consistent answers from people yelling about tankies.

      one takes them seriously because the things they profess tend to be silly and they usually have that obnoxious College freshman master-debater energy.

      Ironically, this better describes the people who rail against “tankies” better than it describes anyone else.

    • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
      22·
      1 day ago

      It gets thrown around too much honestly, if it was just people simping for authoritarian regimes, sure, but it really does get tossed toward anyone “too left”.

      • Horse {they/them}@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        2·
        20 hours ago

        it really does get tossed toward anyone “too left”.

        that’s because that is what it actually means
        “you are to the left of me, and that makes me uncomfortable”