Someone’s pissy. Two main points of disagreement, let’s start at objectively wrong. From wikipedia:

The term “tankie” was originally used by dissident Marxist–Leninists to describe members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) who followed the party line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Specifically, it was used to distinguish party members who spoke out in defence of the Soviet use of tanks to suppress the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the 1968 Prague Spring, or who more broadly adhered to pro-Soviet positions.

So Tankie has never been about Tianenmen square, but it is the sort of lazy take one might land on when they don’t have much curiosity about history and do their best to connect the dots high school gave them.

To the more misleading wrong:

They think that Ukraine is legitimately filled with Nazis in their government and military and that Russia is rescuing the poor populace from their oppressors.

Russia is not a communist country, and hasn’t been in 30+ years, this is important to remember because too often people act as though Tankie’s reverence for the USSR applies at all to Russia, it does not. Broadly the tankie take on Russia/Ukraine is that fundimentally NATO is a militaristic arm of western Neo-colonialism, and that after encroachment Russia started the war. Then during the Biden administration in particular, the US used this as a proxy war against Russia, and like with many of it’s proxy wars, the US funded and armed politically radical groups. It is very much a view of there are no good guys in this war. I don’t even really fully agree with this reading but again, my point was more that you don’t really look into what your arguing and the laziness shows most notably in your guess about the history of the term tankie, and an apathy to even run spell check.

Ah federation can do that. Though I also just happened to see it at like 1 min old when I started replying. :\

My point isn’t about them being gay, more that when you turn something that should otherwise be neutral into an insult because you don’t like the person, it can speak to a deeper bias that one may otherwise be blind to.

Like if you have a partner cheat on you, and we are shit talking them and I say “Yeah, and I bet their from fucking Detroit too”, there is a little bit of like “wait, what’s wrong with people from Detroit?”

Some folks feel similarly about when people jump to gay jokes with political figures they disagree with. In .ml fashion they are quite decisive in their take on the matter.

My point wasn’t really to ‘counter’ anything, especially when you don’t seem to have enough curiosity in the matter to double check even spelling.

muslims (Uighyur or something like that, I can’t spell it right)

The term “tankie” is in reference to the tanks China drove over people during the Tianenmen square massacre.

It’s very telling the commitment people have to this conversation before they form strong opinions.

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I think there is validity in the criticism that folks are quick to jump to mocking gay acts and the like as an insult when they feel the target is valid to attack. It circles back to the people you’re attacking will never see this, but those that agree with you will see it and realize you think this aspect of them is worthy of derision.