Indeed, why did you say that leftists say it’s good for Iran to shoot protesters in the face and that Russia has a god given right to invade Ukraine?

Okay, you said “tankies are defined by their defense of genocide” but then say that there was a massacre in Tiananmen Square.

For one, that’s false. No massacre has ever taken place in Tiananmen Square, and if you could find me a source that says otherwise I’d welcome it.

But also, massacre is not the same as genocide. There must be something else you’re talking about.

You should know, the origin of the term “tankie” is related to Khruschev sending in tanks to squash a fascist movement in Hungary in 1956, way before the 1989 protests in Beijing.

There was a genocide in Tiananmen Square?

What are you talking about?

No, you got it backwards. I’m saying that your positions make you a tankie because you oppose genocide. I’m praising you!

Can we slow down? I don’t really get what you disagree with me about.

Did you read my comments above? I explained the reasoning. If you’re anti-zionist you’re a “tankie” to most anticommunists, they don’t care that you consider yourself different to the other kinds of leftists. At the end of the day we’ll be sent to the same camp.

If you subscribe to a more specific definition of “tankie” it’s probably better to just say what you mean explicitly.

I really wish Blahaj was federated with Hexbear :(

As in Hexbear or Twitter? I don’t think there’s a lot of bots active on Hexbear. I think we have 3 total? There’s the Amber bot, the Volcel Police bot, and the one that replies to comments with twitter, youtube, and reddit links with alternative frontends.

That’s ok, forget the red triangle. That’s fine. I’m saying that you’re loudly voicing your opposition to “tankies” but if you despise all genocidal regimes you are a tankie yourself.

How are you seeing my comments, though? I’m on .ml

After blocking hexbear and .world,

Well yeah it does, you’re on lemmy.world which sometimes has a lot of Zionist apologia. In most online political spaces, the🔻symbol is a reference to videos from Hamas where they would overlay a similar red triangle over an Israeli soldier/tank/military target before it gets hit.

I guess it’s still germane to my point, though. If you do think Hamas is cool because you hate the genocidal regime of Israel, that makes you a “tankie” or at least comparable to one in the eyes of most anticommunists. Functionally, the people who actually will fight “tankies” (as in communists) area also the people who will put you in a camp for being anti-zionist or having other left wing positions.

Wait, you don’t support Hamas?

You know what, I think I might take it back. I’m not sure I was sealioning. I didn’t even go as far as to ask you for a source or anything. I simply replied to someone else’s comment and you joined the conversation by inventing a position I didn’t believe in. I haven’t even done the thing from the comic here, you’re actually the one that butted into the conversation.

Thought terminating cliche.

You have a🔻in your username. That makes you a “tankie” to a huge portion of the people who hate communists, too. We’re both going to get sent to the same camps.

specifically feel outraged at people who are your ally,

Not sure if you understand what my politics are if you say that sentence then link me that org. Blackwater mercs who aren’t repentant at all about all the murder they’ve committed in Iraq are not my allies. The people they killed were my allies, and their living families are the people I care about 100000x more than people like Graham Platner.

Nobody is coming. Nobody is saving us. There will be no revolution.

Ok, then I guess we’ll all just die and boil the planet then. Cool worldview you have there.

Oh, by the way, I’m Puerto Rican and your country doesn’t let me have a say in the federal government nor even our own government’s budget. So your vote-shaming means nothing to me.

Okay, cool, ignore my last paragraph completely then. Don’t think about how the concept of “sealioning” just serves to reinforce whatever the consensus opinions are even if they might be reactionary. Abolitionists were sealioning. Civil rights activists were sealioning. Suffragettes were sealioning.