Same goes for tankies.

You cant logic someone out of a position they didnt logic themselves into.

They believe in this horseshit because they want to, not because they think it makes any sense. They believe in it because they are scared, stupid and confused.

I don’t try to defend them, fuck them, but after having so many arguments with tankies on lemmy I simply came to a conclusion that if I crticise ruzzia or China and someone comes to defense to them with well known propaganda “arguments” I just call them a bitchass tankie and block them

I still don’t quite understand who tankies are tbh, other than that they support/follow communism

Typically the word to refer to communists that are pro-authoritarian, pro-military force, and some amount of bizarrely nationalist.

The word is also, confusingly, used to describe all communists (by people that don’t like communists) and several other subcategories. Really, you can’t ever guess how someone means it when you see them say it. Some people self-describe as tankie, either because they fully agree with the term, or because people call them that anyways.

On lemmy, 90% of the time, “tankie” just literally means “someone from lemmygrad or hexbear”, which is kinda fairly earned, because that is where all the pro-authoritarian, pro-military force, bizarrely nationalist communists hang out, but to be clear, not all of the people in those communities are like that.

Also they hate being defined this way. They will ramble for hours about how “anti-authoritarian” isn’t real or is counter productive, and more pike that. While spamming weird left unity emojis every time someone mentions anarchism…

so it isn’t necessarily bad when someone is just communist right? but obviously the problems start when they’re pro authoritarian and shit