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Got my first warning from upvoting Luigi.
I will keep upvoting him :)
I got banned for posting an animated gif of Luigi.
Ok. I’m new here. What’s a tankie
Edit: tysm everyone for the answers
Derogatory term accusing someone of being a communist/Marxist.
People who are obsessed with tanks
Panzer IV my beloved
No you’re thinking of Acoustic people
Ah that’s me
People that Stan authoritarian countries. The term comes from when the USSR crushed liberation movements with tanks in the Republics and many western communists approved of the crushing. People who love China, Russia, Assad’s Syria, etc are tankies.
Makes sense. Tyvm
these days it’s just Blue Team’s version of “woke”
Yeah, suck it blue! I mean red! I mean blue! Ugh!
It’s actually old hat. Users on r/cth (where hexbear came from) were catching admin bans for upvoting the “wrong” posts years ago.
What was wrong about them?
they often approve of the racial genocides, hunting down of the lgbt and other morally reprehensible stuff this authoritarian regimes did.
Tankies are economically leftwing but their social views can be…questionable
I do not believe without a source that Reddit admins were banning chapos for upvoting positive-spin genocide. Not that I doubt it happened, but if they were doing that there wouldn’t have been anyone left in the conservative subs (except for reasons, of course)
I can believe chapo was one of the subs that would ban you for doing it or commenting in the wrong sub like AgainstHateSubs would but that’s a different claim than what you’re making.
That all said, it’s probably pretty hard to find a source for decade old Reddit drama at this point, but if you’ve got one let it rip.
It’s bullshit, as I always say, “if someone claims something happened on the fediverse without providing a link, they’re lying.” This didn’t happen on the fediverse but that rule also applies to r/cth. Like the way a lot of people found it was by crybullies making shit up and complaining about it and then people would check it out and see that it wasn’t at all like what they claimed.
Reddit never gave any actual reason for banning r/cth, the mods tried to communicate and offered to work with them and never got a response. Even at the time, there was no way to prove what content was responsible so the narrative the community went with was “advocating violence against slaveowners.”
The closest you get to what they’re saying is that there were somewhat problematic jokes about “white genocide” and “forced bimbofication,” mocking the right for taking such things seriously. The site wasn’t really all that tankie, really, it aimed to be a big tent leftist shitposting community and most people were just into Bernie, while also having a sense of humor and not putting up with crybullies (the main reason Redditors hated it).
I left Reddit because they killed 3rd party apps. Since that day, they’ve only gone on to butcher the platform even further.
Joining Lemmy was a damn good decision.
There are other lemmy-like sites as well BTW
Enshitification drives stock prices. Only the rich care about stock prices and they have no interest in using the platform. The platform dies off a death of a thousand cuts… story as old as time
I still don’t understand it, how does making a product worse drive stock prices?
It means they can make people see more ads.
I think it’s more stock prices / shareholders drive enshittification
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Sure but why would they drive it unless it drove stock prices.
damn good indeed! plus with a proper app for mastodon and pixelfed we’ve got it all!
Here here!
Hear, hear!*
Common mistake. The expression means ‘to listen to this person’.
Just a silly play on words because we’re “here”, ya hear?!
Reddit will now issue warnings to users who “upvote several pieces of content banned for violating our policies” within “a certain timeframe,” starting first with violent content, the company announced on Wednesday.
“This will have no impact on the vast majority of users as most already downvote or report abusive content,” a Reddit employee says in the announcement post. In comments on the post, a user expressed concern that the new policy could make people “paranoid about voting,” but the employee says that “this would be an unacceptable side effect, which is why we want to monitor this closely and ramp it up thoughtfully.”
If it violates policies, remove it and move on. This is weird.
“We have done this in the past for quarantined communities and found that it did help to reduce exposure to bad content, so we are experimenting with this sitewide,” according to the main post. Reddit “may consider” expanding the warnings in the future to cover repeated upvotes of other kinds of actions as well as taking other types of actions in addition to warnings.
Now that there is Thoughtcrime territory.
“Hey investors look away from the huge pile of porn we’re hosting and look at these cool content filters we’re adding”.
Porn, you say? 🧐
This reminds me lots of when Facebook started applying warnings/bans/etc retroactively to content without any context. I remember getting several wrist slaps in the same month for content I had shared a decade prior that really wasn’t all that bad. But Facebook decided it was a problem and made me question what I was allowed to post in the future. It didn’t take long after that for me to stop using Facebook completely.
Obligatory fuck u/spez (with a large pineapple preferably)
I hope his pineapple sizes pale in comparison to Trump’s and Elon’s.
I hate the uprising of the word tankie like the rise of the word woke. Just more language to make walls between people.
Its still not as bad as how Twitter works. If you wanna say “kill all the (group)” you just search for someone else who wrote it and then retweet that. Then if someone challenges you, you just say “not my words bro”.
Just another way to allow hateful right wing content to stay up while punishing users who aren’t retarded for upvoting Luigi memes and saying trump is a fascist etc
What else is new on Reddit? They should just pull the trigger and make an official bigots only policy like twitter
The exact wording seems to be “banned content”, which includes a lot more than just violence (is violence banned in the first place, considering subs like r/PublicFreakout?).
Yeah tbh if it were just violent content I’d be fine with that. I still don’t trust Reddit as a platform anymore, but I’d be 100% understanding of the rule.
Banned/Removed-by-Admin content, though? That’s absurd. That’s way too broad.
“Violent content” could also be videos of officer misconduct, and there’s the whole can of worms of what “promoting violence” means.
Fair
Guarantee something like posting a picture of Luigi will be considered banned content promoting violence.
Well tbf most of those are unless you’re saying “I don’t think this is the killer” or resharing a news article. He’s not celebrated for pacifism.
I think it’s advocating violence, and extreme violence (things like terrorist beheading videos and such) that are banned. Things like Waffle House fights likely won’t meet the banning threshold.
I assume this is prompted by Luigi-inspired death threats to CEOs. If they are monitoring this so closely, I bet the FBI might want to take a look at those records too…
I think it very well could, as well as any other reddit corporate agenda such as removing content at request of pieces of shit who punch and berate service staff and then later sue to remove said content from the internet. It’s a necessary distinction.
What is a tankie?
So if you know what the word “commie” meant during the cold war, “tankie” means the same thing, just said by people who don’t want to seem like elderly boomers
Since we’re counting to ten:
Classic tankies are the authoritarian leaning communists, that is communists willing to use (military) power to accomplish their goals and will voice those more aggressive sounding opinions.
No, that’s not true. Authoritarians can’t be communist, because communism is stateless. You mean authoritarian socialists.
Read On Authority by Engles.
Ah, thank you!
Radical centrists who want a form of socialism where everyone is oppressed by the state, thereby combining the ideas of the left and the right.
That sounds… terrible.
Yes, which might be the give away that it’s a strawman, and nobody actually believes in that or wants that.
They claim to be the only real leftists, because communism requires putting down revolutions with tanks and supporting genocidal dictators. They call it “the dictatorship of the proletariat”, where proletariat means worker. They think a dictatorship can be leftist.
How many of them ate paint chips as children?
It used to be a word for people who defended Stalin sending tanks to Hungary in the 50s. It caught on in leftist discourse as a word for leftists who excuse illegitimate state violence, domestically and abroad. Though on Lemmy, like reddit before it, it’s mostly thrown around at anyone who disagrees that the US used to a be radiant light in the world until 2016 or anyone left of Pelosi.
It used to be a word for people who defended Stalin sending tanks to Hungary in the 50s.
Stalin was dead by then!
For God sake, could people learn about things before giving their takes?
Is anything else wrong or are you just gonna be anal about something that doesn’t even pertain to the point?
Westerners really are unbelievably arrogant; not spouting off about things you demonstrably don’t know even the most basic facts about should be normal behaviour
It used to be a word for people who defended Stalin sending tanks to Hungary in the 50s. It caught on in leftist discourse as a word for leftists who excuse illegitimate state violence, domestically and abroad
Correct etymology of the word!
Though on Lemmy, like reddit before it, it’s mostly thrown around at anyone who disagrees that the US used to a be radiant light in the world until 2016 or anyone left of Pelosi
LMAO no much worse, it’s “leftist I think is crazy”, so who is and isn’t a “tankie” depends on the person using the word; although it generally means someone who is pro hardcore Communism a la Stalin.
Correct etymology of the word!
Only if you’re too historically illiterate to think Stalin was still alive
Lol that makes a lot of sense. Thank you!
The nationalists hanging around in leftist spaces
Thank you!
Thats not correct, by the way
To me seems to be people that think that the evil imperialist actions of countries that claim(ed) to be Communist are excused by the evil imperialist actions of the USA.
Got it, thank you!
You’re about to get 10 different answers, most would say
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Any user from the Lemmygrad and Hexbear instances, and some from Lemmy.ml
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Genocide deniers
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Pro-Russia and pro-China users
I think it’s just a derogatory term for anyone that’s anti-imperialism/liberalism
I have never seen a tankie oppose liberalism. I’ve seen plenty of tankies say they oppose liberalism, but then they act like liberals. It’s very confusing.
Nah we anti-imperialists don’t fit in to that
See, I don’t even know. The term is used so broadly. It’s basically just “Lemmy users I don’t like”
Got it, thank you!
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People who support real communism. Think the USSR and Communist China. They’re called tamkies because they used tanks to kill civilians.
real communism
How exactly do you define this?
Well obviously it’s only real communism if being gay is illegal and the government sells lumber and steel to Nazi Germany to use in weapons.
Thank you!
In case you’re wondering what’s considered “violent content” on Reddit and how far they’ll push this definition, calling the top 10 breakdown of healthcare CEOs “Luigi’s List” counts.
In general, aligning with Tankies for any reason, ever, will just trigger a reactionary bias against whatever message you’re promoting. I’m not saying I dissagree automatically, but it’s the opposite of helping your case.
When Tankies agree with a statement I have to stop for a moment and reassess how that statement can be used to maim and destroy western democracies or if they’re just making another show of pretending to have morals.
Yeah we can both hate tankies (lovers of brutal dictatorships) and reddit (a now sucky media platform).
This post is quite crappy and wrong IMO.
