Slop.

they have been going out of their way to make any leftist space toxic to liberals… to make any communist space toxic to communists. when hxbr was on reddit, they brigaded and harassed leftists only… and they definitely use a lot of sock puppets and run campaigns to manipulate and fuck up forums like this. many people are stupid enough to be tankies, but i think the vast majority are completely fake. they’re extremely hostile towards people who genuinely are interested in communism and come there to learn and engage… extremely extremely hostile. they are not looking for community, they are seeking to destroy communities and make communism look as bad as possible. in short: tankies are fake as fuck and a psyop

I go to check the modlog and-

I don't know what I expected, but apparently the anticommunist thinks 'mansplaining' is a slur.

Bonus: mansplaining nonbinary, complaining about misandry

How compelling

Hey its the AuSStralian who spends all his time being mad about tankies and China

This shit is going to ring more and more hollow as libs get radicalized by ICE violence. You can't get to the point where libs are talking about protesting while armed (or doing it) and simultaneously punch left because they aren't pacifists.

Y'know, if these people can provide a consistent, material, considered method, one that could actually work, I'd be very happy, I'd go with it! Despite the way I talk at times, I really hate violence. But they never have a program! It's always this bullshit.

I was staying at a volunteering farm in Chile recently and some guy turned up, objected to me being communist (I have a fairly prominent hammer and sickle tattoo), asked me if I was a tankie and got upset when I said yes, and then still thought that when I was cooking dinner for me and my friends that he was by default invited to partake.

Because I'm such a nice guy I let him have some on the first night, but on the second night I had to remind him that Chile was still a capitalist country and that he could buy and cook his own fucking dinner.

Favio, on the off chance you are reading this, you are a shit worker, you lazy fucking bum.

This is Reddit karma farming because it's based on that Luigi meme and also doesn't involve any real experiences. It's a thing you can post to liberals and get social kudos for it.

At this point I barely even know who the libs are talking about. I know what they mean by a tankie, they mean someone identifiable leftist who expresses sympathy for the west's enemies.

But where are they even interacting with tankies anymore? Who have they identified as tankie leadership? Hasan Piker? Mark Ruffalo? I have a feeling liberals will simply get into arguments on Twitter and that's who they figure their political enemies are. Like who are they kidding, smash red fascism? They gonna start sending anti-antifa to harass PSL? Are they gonna go surround a Marxist bookclub or harass one of those North Korea friendship orgs full of elderly Koreans? Good luck I guess

How to overthrow capitalism:

1. Immediately punch left

2. Post online about how good you are at punching left

3. ???

4. We did it lemmy!

Haha yes let's punch left while the fascists are literally kidnapping our neighbours, shooting innocent people and throwing grenades in vehicles full of children. This is a very rational use of my time during the current moment.

This is a fairly correct depiction of the liberal "anti-tankie" crowd. More focused on anticommunism and punching left than on building serious anticapitalist projects, so they always fail or end up tailist or worse. They barely even know what their own words mean, or actively avoid learning them, and just throw around things like "organize!", "vote!", "mutual aid!", all individualist things shouted into the void, bereft of any material concept of what that would actually mean in practice. Except voting, they know how to do that: it's just waiting around for years and sometimes pressing a button or marking a piece of paper. Nevermind that the people they want you to vote for are the ones pushing hard to fund the "gestapo" you only realized existed ten minutes ago. Surely your resistance movement of giving more funding to your oppressors will do wonders.

Faced with this political anemia, soothing themselves with rationalizations about how it's actually better to attack the only political framework to ever challenge capitalism for any length of time. Often the people they criticize are same people who are ready to throw down and actually organize against fascists, whereas these unorganized people simply put themselves and their neighbors at risk, ad hoc.

This is just a shitty version of that actually good Luigi meme

also:

I’m not saying you’re right or wrong but it is certainly interesting that the most prominent tankie specimens on the fediverse average 20+ essay-length comments per day while I get fed jacketed if I spend more than 2 paragraphs refuting their bullshit.

Strange that these self described proles have enough free time between their subsistence wage earning and real life praxis to write a small novel per week…

indistinguishable from chuds talking about paid protesters

Vote for hindenburg to own the tankies

Imagine living in an ever increasingly fascist world and thinking anti fascist are the problem

Repeatedly calling tankies stupid but also criticizing us for writing essay length comments

When we engage with them we're writing thought out responses. When they engage with us it's thought terminating cliches and name calling.