• Vlaxtocia [she/her]
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    11010 months ago

    In case you’re being serious:

    A tankie is a leftist/communist who thinks “send in the tanks” is a valid and viable strategy for political disagreement (see tiananmen square)

    A terf is a Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist, basically a transphobe who either is pretending to care about women’s issues to hurt us, or has been traumatised by some past event and is taking it out on us

    • DessertStorms
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      7710 months ago

      A tankie is a leftist/communist

      No, they like to claim they are communists, in the same way Hitler claimed to be a socialist, and the Kim family claim to be republicans for peoples’ democracy.

      Tankies are authoritarians.

      Communism is inherently incompatible with authoritarianism.

    • @PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5910 months ago

      My experience with tankies online is more that they hate the West so much that they somehow think that all enemies of the West are good.

      Examples: blaming Ukraine war on NATO, saying China is not all that bad.

      Checkout hexbear.net for examples

      • @Glide@lemmy.ca
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        1610 months ago

        9/11 is a bad day to be browsing Hexbear.

        Or I guess a good one of you want to see just how fucked up the morality is.

    • @octoperson@sh.itjust.works
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      1610 months ago

      in case you’re being serious

      I don’t know what sort of person could be an active Lemmy user, on the Blahaj instance no less, and not ever have encountered tankies or terfs. Frankly I’m jealous

    • Kushan
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      710 months ago

      It’s probably worth saying that these days “Terf” tends to get used for anyone that’s anti-trans, regardless if they are identifying as feminist or not.

      • @violetraven
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        1410 months ago

        True, but terfs themselves are anti-feminist as well.

        • Kushan
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          310 months ago

          I agree, it was more commenting on how it has become a bit of a catchall term. Feminist or not, they’re all a bunch of wankers either way.