On lemmy.world I posted a comment on how liberals use ‘tankie’ as an invective to shut down dialogue and received tons of hateful replies. I tried to respond in a rational way to each. Someone’s said ‘get educated’ I responded ‘Im reading Norman Finkelstein’s I’ll burn that bridge when I get there’ and tried to keep it civil.

They deleted every comment I made and banned me. Proving my point, they just want to shut down dialogue. Freedom of speech doesn’t existing in those ‘totalitarian’ countries right? But in our ‘enlightened’ western countries we just delete you.

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    Tankie means you approve when a communist state uses military/tanks against its own people… Not against a Nazi state. I would reconsider if you really want to wear that label with pride…

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      Tankie just means “any communist I don’t like” at this point. Take your McCarthyism and complete ignorance about color revolutions elsewhere.

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            Look what people wrote as replies to my comment, look how the upvote downvote numbers are, think.

            My key takeaway from this post is: people on lemmygrad say they are interested in discussion and all those other instances are oh so bad, because they block them or doenvote them or call them tankies, which people on lemmygrad interpret as slur.

            At the same time, you get down voted to oblivion, when you even write the definition of tankies to someone, who calls himself one. People who are pride to be a tankies onLemmygrad: cherished People who criticise this in anyway: laught at.

            And simultaneously everyone who calls anyone else except him self a tankie no matter the context is automatically a liberal, when Servers defederate them, they are all facists or love fascists

            People making strawman arguments when I say in a discussion that I don’t agree with Stalin (“ohhh so capitalism is sooo much better” - no, its not, and I didn’t say that, I can disagree with capitalism and stlinism at the same time, go figure)

            And people defending (literal) tankies get upvoted, people who don’t get down voted.

            This server has lost one of the strongest tools in material dialectic: (self-) critical thinking

            I really hoped I would find interesting debates here, but this is a circlejerk

            At what point will self reflection kick in? At what point t people in an echo chamber realise its one?

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              If you don’t send tanks into hungary, the nazis will do pogroms and construct concentration camps there. Not sending tanks is inhumanly cruel.

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                I 100% agree, and tho I very much like Stalin(he’s my favorite writer) it doesn’t take a “Stalinist” to understand that Color Revolutions and Nazism need to be crushed for socialism to survive

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              Mathematician 1: 1+1=2 Mathematician 2: 1+1=2

              Debatebro: Muh echo chamber!

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                Yeah, cause stating “tankie” means “every communist I don’t like” is the only truth and like saying 1+1 =2

                Also comparing societal questions to mathematical ones is totally unconcerning

                /kappa

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                  Marxism-Leninism is a branch of science. What I’m saying is that we all get the same results because that’s how science works.

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                    Everyone who has in interest in science knows that you can’t prove opinions, but only facts. You can prove stuff like “capitalism is destroying the ecosystem” or “China masacered the Uigurs” you can’t prove stuff like “Stalin was right” or “the bests way to interpret Marx is to consider the context he wrote in”

                    That’s the basic difference between empirical and normative science.

                    And basically all questions of politics are at least partially normative.

                    I agree that materialistic dialectics can be used as scientific tools, and are by most people, but science also means, you accept that no one can have the “only true opinion” as empirical facts can be interpreted widely different and no human has ALL information. And even if one had, there are always subjective weightings at play (is human suffering worse than human death? Is animal death worse than human suffering? Is the system more valuable than individual freedoms?)

                    Science means knowing what you can and can’t prove, so if you are scientific, you know that not everybody comes to the same conclusion even when using the same facts.

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      What is your opinion on the standing rock protests and the Kentucky state massacre

      Also the 1956 Hungarian coup attempt that the epithet “tankies” comes from was literally full of nazis lmao

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          There’s a really great graphic novel called ‘Berlin’ that goes into how the Nazis came to be, how the communists were the ones that organized worker strikes to stop railroads to death camps etc. I don’t think our meme warfare on the net will change anything but if your looking for a fun read checkit. Is there anything you would recommend for me? I probably I’ll read it. I’m a reader.

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            Oh i totaly agree that communists were often the strongest force against fascists. Don’t have to like Stalin to be a communist nor to be antifascist though

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      That’s correct, specifically a state that uses tanks against its people in revolt.

      However, people on Reddit (and on Lemmy now) basically use it to refer to any leftist they have a disagreement with.

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        Well saying tankies support using tanks against civilians gets you down voted on lemmygrad.

        No tankies here though, all just libs propaganda

        /kappa

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              Because if you would answer that you would have to admit that the wokes were right.

              This is a rhetorical trap called “reality”.

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                Oh I think there are a lot of people who get called woke and are right. Your rhetorical trap is not reality, its trying to get me to say something which confirms your prejustices.

                Remember, my claim, forwhich you guys are fighting me here was “tankie” has other than “someone I don’t like”

                You attacked me verbally for saying that, and then realized, that you can’t win this argument, cause in reality you agree with me so you try to shift the battlefield to a discussion you can win (and kept pressing really hard with your Hungarian Nazis ^^)

                That’s your rhetorical strategy, it has nothing to do with reality ;)

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                  It was you who insisted that t***** was only targeted at people who wanted to send tanks into hungary to crush the nazi uprising.

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                    I never talked about Hungary or Nazis (at least not before you guys insisted on that topic because that’s a fight u practised)

                    My talking point was, and still is, "tankie doesn’t mean " people I don’t like " in my part of the world and most online debates. Sure there are people who use it this way, but they are far from the majority in my experience.

                    Even after I told you why I am here, you keep on building more stawmans to entertain me. Very nice of u ^^