I thought FUD was a cryptobro term.
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Tankie is a descriptive term. A supporter of authoritarian faux-communist regimes (i.e. russia and China). Try telling an average person on the street about "tankie discrimination" and you'll see what I mean.
This makes no sense at all.
I am a Nazi (i.e. I want my own extermination) and to promote my alleged agenda I decided to join LW which in the bigger scope of things means nothing at all (don't forget Lemmy as a whole has a mere ~50K MAU).
Do you even read what you write?
When you call me 'tankie scum' or 'tankie roach' it's a pejorative.
I said:
My meaning is you use language around enemies like nazis do, referring to your (perceived) enemies as subhuman, something to be exterminated. My observation is that it's acceptable in portions of the fediverse to use that sort of language as long as it is directed at an appropriate geopolitical foe (ie russia/russians).
If you're someone who would be targeted by Nazis then maybe you should think with greater depth about recycling their rhetoric.
And why is it wrong to call individuals who oppose self-determination for nations, support authoritarianism and deny genocide, scum and roaches?
Bold words coming from someone who publicly fantasized about killing another poster with an ice-pick (note the pro-Stalinist connection).
An overwhelming majority of russians support imperialism and a strong majority are genocidal imperialists. Just because you claim "this is BIA propaganda", doesn't make it true. And most references by tankies are easy to prove false (as I just did with your "I’m not denying the story at all").
You talk about "greater depth", what does even this mean? You can't even get your basic story right. You claim to have relatives in Ukraine, yet this whole time your sole message has been about white-washing and supporting russian genocidal imperialism (say it ain't so). That's why you are tankie scum! Is this not a reasonable take?
I oppose patriotism and jingoism, which is why you don't like what I have to say. "support self-determination" is something that applies for kosovo but not donbass, it's just 'rules based order' in a trenchcoat.
It's wrong because you're using dehumanizing rhetoric for people you don't know and applying it (in this reply) broadly to entire ethnic groups. It's why I said you sound like a Nazi.
This is what I visualize reading this and knowing you actually just think we're all roaches to be exterminated
You never explain what BIA is, I have no idea what this is referring to in this context
It's actually more of an anti-trotskyist invective
I mean think, using your head, rather than whatever you're using to do your thinking right now.
You can fuck right off with whitewashing the russian occupation of Donbas. You've never lived there and you have no clue what the situation is like. You've also never been to Kosovo or any of the Balkan nations.
Don't act all high and mighty with big words about me being a Nazi and dehumanization, you chimped out and publicly went on a rant about a fantasy to kill someone with an icepick over some internet BS. And you had the gall to go with "the same user admitted to being a jerk in the exchange as well".
Get fucked you tankie "leftist larper" scum!
I am done here.
here's you sounding like a 4-chan Nazi again, you really can't help it when you know you're talking to an untermench like me I guess
Sure thing, Miss "I fantasize to kill you with a pickaxe just like the assassination of Trotsky as ordered by Stalin."
You're not fooling anyone you tankie scum.
Get fucked you lying tankie roach!
plenty of anarchists don't like Trotsky, he famously was the one who killed many anarchists, before he found himself on the receiving end.
you just can't stop sounding like a Nazi though
it was a throwaway dunk 6 months ago because he was complaining about 'not getting a meeting of the minds' when he was rolling up doing this:
If our exchange is anything to go by you probably gleefully fantasize about all your undesirables getting cleansed.
So is this where you hang out now that 4chan is gone?