Because they have no clue what “tankie” even means, so they use it for anything they don’t like.
Someone debunking propaganda? TANKIEEE! Materialist analysis of a political event? TANKIEEEEE!!! Bad weather? TANKIEEEE!!1
“Oh, I am fine with socailism! You know, real socialism like they have in Sweden and Norway. Not that red fascism that tankies believe in. Did you know that they are…authoritarian!?”
The topic was Helldivers. Helldivers is a leftist game that satires USA fascism. GCJ has identified that the game is satirising fascism, but refuses the coding as the USA, western Europe, AUKUS and the NATO countries.
Some Nazi (not apparent from what he said, but I recognise the name) made a comment to the effect of ‘GCJ pretends to be against fascism but would happily bomb poor countries over a gay rights issue’, and the comments where highly critical of this supposedly being a contradiction. They made unironic and unambiguous statements in support of bombing and invading countries ‘to spread democracy’ like the game was a commentary on, but in their world view, unlike the game, because they would educate and enlighten the backwards countries by introducing new human rights laws that would better protect gays.
Wait this is gcj? What tankies? The whole sub is aggressively liberal! Yesterday they were cheering for bombing backwards countries.
Liberals straight up hallucinate “tankies” as existing where there are none.
Because they have no clue what “tankie” even means, so they use it for anything they don’t like. Someone debunking propaganda? TANKIEEE! Materialist analysis of a political event? TANKIEEEEE!!! Bad weather? TANKIEEEE!!1
“What do you mean white people murdered your tribe?! Tankie!”
“Oh, I am fine with socailism! You know, real socialism like they have in Sweden and Norway. Not that red fascism that tankies believe in. Did you know that they are…authoritarian!?”
A tear slipped out of my eye just typing that.
There are tankies living in your walls
I wish. I wouldn’t be as bored.
I never visited there, even in my reddit days, but isn’t it presumably a gaming sub? Why would they even be talking about bombing countries?
The topic was Helldivers. Helldivers is a leftist game that satires USA fascism. GCJ has identified that the game is satirising fascism, but refuses the coding as the USA, western Europe, AUKUS and the NATO countries.
Some Nazi (not apparent from what he said, but I recognise the name) made a comment to the effect of ‘GCJ pretends to be against fascism but would happily bomb poor countries over a gay rights issue’, and the comments where highly critical of this supposedly being a contradiction. They made unironic and unambiguous statements in support of bombing and invading countries ‘to spread democracy’ like the game was a commentary on, but in their world view, unlike the game, because they would educate and enlighten the backwards countries by introducing new human rights laws that would better protect gays.