Petrol posted:when i first heard the term a few years ago online i tried to work out what it meant and ended up thinking it was a tumblr term for fans of world of tanks. sadly the reality was even more stupid than that
whoever brought it back into currency in the 21st century cyber world definitely deserves a pay raise at whatever nazi intelligence agency they work for
i first came across it in this hilariously bad thing and its even worse follow-ups
Keven posted:Sorry but only shonen can be communist now. Moe, slice of life, etc. are All Fascist
Petrol posted:when i first heard the term a few years ago online i tried to work out what it meant and ended up thinking it was a tumblr term for fans of world of tanks. sadly the reality was even more stupid than that
whoever brought it back into currency in the 21st century cyber world definitely deserves a pay raise at whatever nazi intelligence agency they work for
i thought it was started by people that (used to) post here, like most other nazi intelligence working to maintain white supremacist Empire
tears posted:Just hit delete on a 50,000 word post on girls und panzer
please keep in mind that when most of us talk about tankies we are referring to the group of people who obsessively call themselves that, aka, tank club, or rhizzone lite: mal, prop d, yugiohmishima, vpartyintheusa, laredaction, ultraleftist, drdogballs, etc. They’re all transphobic dinguses and weird catholic fetishists who really don’t get communism at all.
"My problem with tankies is I don't think the whole world can just simply be understood through the filter of reacting against US misdeeds. Period. Watching that tendency kind of explode in certain segments of the Left is really fucked up. I think the best we can do is look for and try to practice some form of international solidarity. Right? ... Even in like Syria, why would your eyes not be on Kurdish socialists instead of like Assadist neo-fascists."
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page 1: i dont even know what that means
page 2: anime, dr dogballs and ""ironic"" dating sims
*nodding* good
drdogballs posted:i heard there was a place where awful posters could come together, and i thought, finally a place where i could be myself
good to have a dr in the house
aerdil posted:also wow the baffler is getting really bad. one of their podcast episodes entitled "techies and tankies" https://soundcloud.com/user-253233419/news-from-nowhereepisode-12-tankies-and-techies
"My problem with tankies is I don't think the whole world can just simply be understood through the filter of reacting against US misdeeds. Period. Watching that tendency kind of explode in certain segments of the Left is really fucked up. I think the best we can do is look for and try to practice some form of international solidarity. Right? ... Even in like Syria, why would your eyes not be on Kurdish socialists instead of like Assadist neo-fascists."
is this the podcast with deadken and amber frost?
c_man posted:is this the podcast with deadken and amber frost?
no that's called whale vomit. i've been listening through it, and in one of the episodes - not sure which - amber did say something condescending about "tankies" and deadken just sort of chuckled and then moved on to something else, if i recall correctly. idk, i remember thinking it was weird.
cars posted:imo most of the contemporary anarchist problem with organizing solves itself. their recent heyday was during a period of time when "socialist" was a swear word in the West and those among anarchists interested in doing anything productive tend to be in the process of trading up in politics atm
Yeah I am witnessing this happening first-hand in my city