• mim@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Tankies.

    You can’t have a discussion about anything without some tankie blaming it on Ukrainians / the west / capitalism, etc.

    “Oh you stubbed your toe on the table? See, tables are oppressive furniture of the bourgeoisie. The Chinese government wanted to make all tables toe-stubbing resistent, but that would affect IKEA’s bottom line and the pharmaceutical industry’s profits. I have a source from tankiepeoplesmagazine to back this up.”

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      2 years ago

      I made the mistake of mentionning social democracy once. This was followed by the most pedantic, insufferable and useless argument I have ever had on the internet. I had better discussions with wall. This was first and last time I was replying to those comments. It is easy to ignore anyway. Sometime you learn the hard way.

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      2 years ago

      bourgeoisie

      Always makes me laugh when I see this. I’m tempted to start a hexbear bingo, it’ll be the first one on the list!

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      2 years ago

      I almost never see this, but I see complaints about “tankies” all the time. I’m not even sure what a tankie is, but it seems about as stupid as the term “woke”.

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        Have a look at comments in any news article regarding Ukraine. They will simp for Russia just because they are not US allies.

        A tankie is commonly used to refer to someone who blindly defends the actions of the USSR, China, North Korea, etc. Going as far as denying human rights abuses and genocide.

        It’s not the same thing as woke.

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          2 years ago

          I know it’s not the same as woke, the word just hits the same level of annoyingness for me.

          I’m all for shutting down those who support Russia right now, I just feel like using buzzwords makes it more difficult to take people seriously.