The other definitions provided here aren’t exactly complete.

Tankie is a pejorative referring to authoritorian communists, specifically those who support one-party Marxist–Leninist socialist republics. It was originally coined to refer to those who defended the Soviet suppression of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the 1968 Invasion of Czechoslovakia, both of which involved the liberal use of, you guessed it, tanks. Over time, it has grown to encompass authoritarian leftists that support anti-western nations, e.g., Russia, China, and North Korea.

There has been increased semantic drift as, much like woke is used by the right, tankie has started to mean “leftist I don’t like” in some circles.

1 2 3 4 I declare a proxy war.

That meme is working extra hard today but it’s just so perfect for the occasion.

More people…per capita…🤯

Nicely done, I approve.

Massive Massengil Meltdown!

Are you really trying to spin my mocking you for being a pathetic douche as “crying about it”? ROFLMAO You can’t even say anything original, you’re just aping your betters. “Cry more, cry more, I spend a lot of time with my gran trolling on Facebook, weeeeeping”.

Good thing 4chan is back up, otherwise you’d run out of material. Thanks for the laugh, and I can’t wait to see what stupid shite you copy next! Maybe ask your gran for pointers first.

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Summer’s Eve Double Down!

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Enhance your calm, John Spartan!

I present to you Bloomcole, Lemmy’s stupidest user. Give them a hand!

It appears ShartDick has been huffing glue again. I’ve told them they can’t afford to lose any more brain cells, but it’s hard to kick a lifelong habit.

By their logic, you’d need to murder their parent, maybe their boss.

This bad boy can take two 5.25"s at same time.

I’d wager they’re an American, where they believe their conservative-lite Democratic party is left leaning.

JFC. Seek help mate.

The wind of the collective whoooosh from people missing the joke could be a new major source of renewable energy.

Where are you getting this $1B figure? It appears the main cost is rockets, which run about $50k per. $1B would account for launching 20,000 rockets. There are 10 batteries in Israel with at most 80 rockets each, so a maximum of 800 rockets. That means 25 reloads a day. Is it really burning through that many rockets daily or is there more to this?

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MAGA customers are a double edged sword. You can sell them on practically anything as long as it “owns the libs”, but they often don’t have much money.

I think the primary difference here is they know the population they’re oppressing so it’s difficult to wholly believe the propaganda.

When being imperialists abroad, they’re fed a steady stream of propaganda about how they’re the hero, that they’re saving democracy, babies, capitalism, and what not. Most of them don’t speak the language and have difficulty relating to the local population. Americans are notoriously ignorant of everything outside the US (fine, in the US too) and the locals they’re defrauding are understandably afraid and/or hostile, so many don’t learn otherwise or don’t want to accept otherwise. Imagine the blow to the psyche of switching gears from “great American saviour” to “brown kid murder machine to make rich people richer”. That’s tough.

Now the lies are much harder to believe. They speak the language, share the culture, and some are at least vaguely familiar with the events leading up to these protests. While 1/3 of the US population are utter numpties, the remaining 2/3 are at least likely redeemable and some of that larger fraction is likely present in the military. They know what they’re doing is wrong and don’t believe the propaganda telling them otherwise.

Now we’ll see if any have the courage to stand against this. I’m not holding my breath.