Are the tankies in the room with you now?

That's not really a thing neoliberals say...

They definitely complain about the tankies being a big part of the culture of Lemmy, and housing some of the biggest communities, but the statement in the comic isn't even remotely a thing neolibs or the .world demographic says

So this comic kinda just feels like a strange, confusing straw man...

The only times I hear of tankies is from how annoying they are in online forums, their only power being in their subreddits and lemmy instances. The only references to Marxists are from idiots repeating MAGA talking points.
Nothing appears to exist if you never open your eyes
- Real eyes realize real lies
- Really bro? That's what we're doing now?

"Progressive" Shitlibs when they allow bigots on their platform and Queer people dont like them

(Im pretty sure eveyone other than world users hate world)

.world has now moved onto banning people for calling out transphobia. It was bad when they banned users for calling out the Democrats' involvement with the genocide of Palestinians, but now they ban users for being "aggressive" with transphobes.
- Yea..... I am glad I have .world on my block list.
- That's concerning... I don't follow instance drama, but if that's even half true I'll switch. Have a source that I can read?
.world user here. I also hate .world.
I personally don't do a lot of hating
- I personally dont hate individual people, I hate concepts and organizations (like Neoliberalism and bigotry) :3

You know it's gotten pretty bad when even the anarchist flag usernames are meming about how ridiculous the anti tankie attitude is.

I've been more people complaining about Tankies than anything actually based on what Tankies support. But I've seen plenty of shitlibs openly supporting for biogtry on .world
- Your instance probably filters them from you.
Imo anarchists and people who even lean that way have a big interest in making sure tankie doesn't get used as an insult for anyone to the left of liberals, real tankies grouped and killed anarchists, letting everyone be called tankies and not just real tankies means Anarchists are less safe.
- Yup. Mutual aid and mutual security are closely tied. Any top down heirarchal structure, no matter how temporary you're told it will be, is against the interests of the workers/proletariat/commoner.
  
  Communists worked closely with fascists in Italy to have anarchists killed when Mussolini was in power.
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_Italy
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_attempts_on_Benito_Mussolini

Aside from conservatives, does anyone think the world is controlled by marxists, tankie or otherwise?

The meme is about lemmy.world and American liberals are center-right conservatives so....
- American liberals are centre-left progressives* FTFY
The closest is the PRC, though all Marxists understand that the US is the current hegemon.

Basically my thoughts are, if you give slight pushback to American talking points you get called a tankie. It's kind of annoying.

I have a brain, you know.
Who told you not to trust anything the US said?

This is meme is for people who are incapable of forming their own thoughts but have been told they are, aka, tools of propaganda.
- Who told you not to trust anything the US said?
  
  Living in the US is sufficient cause to distrust its government.
Yes, American propaganda is propaganda, but also: They're both hugely powerful countries. It's a bit naive to view either without healthy scepticism.

Just my perspective from a smaller country. I wish we weren't the US' little bitch (Australia) and think I do view China quite a lot more favourably than the average US or Australian citizen, but I think the first sentence in your meme is the healthy view here with practically any country.

in order to combat leftist propaganda lemmy.flatearth is now forcing disinformation onto its communities. The red scare runs deep.

Seriously?
- yup it was a recent announcement about "balanced discussions" or whatever

I haven't been able to take the word "tankie" seriously in most cases since I asked that to someone on Reddit and they linked a meme praising anarchist Catalonia

Yeah, it's kind of lost all meaning. I've seen Marxists call Liberals tankies, and I've seen Liberals calls Marxists tankies. I've seen right wingers call Leftists tankies, and I've seen Leftists call Centerists tankies. I know where the word came from, and who the first tankies were but I rarely know what a person's intent is with that word anymore. Maybe it's just young people slang now and I'm just too old to get it.

Because I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it anymore and what's it seems weird and scary. And it'll happen to you!

THIS is why people have a problem with "tankies."

Budapest, 1956.

My family comes from Iran and Iraq

THIS is why I have a problem with "liberals"

Baghdad, 2003
- I've been doing antiwar protests since Iraq- absolutely massive and totally ignored by the government. It was a bit radicalizing.
  
  I've always considered myself an anarchist. These days I get called a tankie just for being opposed to wars and vocally opposing my own governments complicity in genocide. Somehow the meaning of tankie got flipped to mean the people opposed to sending in the tanks. Most ml's I've known are the first people to shit on Khrushchev anyways.
- Yea, neoliberal ideology is fucked all around. I prefer progressives over self declared libs.
- Ah yes, the famous liberal, George Bush.
Whatever you do, don't look up the numbers of Soviet officials lynched before the tanks were sent in, or who the counter-revolutionaries set free from prison to help with the lynching and rioting (spoiler: literal Nazis).
- Hey dont forget who funded and equipped the counter-revolutionaires (The CIA)
Were you aware that Russia agreed to USSR's/CIS liberation? All of it was peaceful.

Well that's a strawman if I've ever seen one

Extreme right want us to think that this is full of tankies to give the impression that they are a opressed minority, is in fact a nasty resource that they use when they see they are loosing a debate or simply the presence in a physic or virtual space.

Look agan

Look agan

I did! It's a Siberian river apparently. What about it? 🤓
No one knows the original comic 😤

A tankie seems to be supporting Russia, with Russians support, defending itself from NATO expansion. Many communities view US empire objective of diminishing Russia to be a supreme right, and the "virtue of democracy" that all demonism must be true.