The Fediverse is huge and overwhelming to a newcomer, with many different types and each with servers to pick from. Which ones would you suggest checking out or avoiding?
The Fediverse is huge and overwhelming to a newcomer, with many different types and each with servers to pick from. Which ones would you suggest checking out or avoiding?
dafuq? The red triangle is part of my lore, it’s for the book that I haven’t written
Wait, you don’t support Hamas?
Fuck all genocidal regiems. Does that need to be said explicitly?
Lol. These are the people calling you tankies
Since when was the Palestinian resistance to genocide genocidal themselves? What kind of hasbara is this?
me when I make shit up
Honestly I don’t think this person is saying Hamas is genocidal. I think he’s very confused and is really insistent that tankies love genocide, so he was trying to like, pre-move me. But as far as I can tell the implied genocidal regime he’s opposed to is China, not Hamas. Obviously that opens a whole other can of worms but he won’t reply to my last comment.
He was absolutely calling Hamas genocidal
“Fuck all genocidal regiems. Does that need to be said explicitly?” as a reply to “Wait, you don’t support Hamas?” definitely sounded like calling Hamas genocidal, as did doubling down by putting “all” in bold after you tried to get him to agree Hamas was cool. China only came up later in the thread, as far as I can tell.
But if he doesn’t think that, he can easily clarify.
I read it as “you’re right that I support Hamas but I’m not a tankie because I oppose all genocides, not just the one in Gaza” which I admit is also a non-sequitur but not as much of a non-sequitur as also calling Hamas genocidal. But we’re definitely reading tea leaves here.
By insisting that the red triangle in his display name is related to his fictional lore and not Hamas, I think he’s trying to say that he opposes Hamas as a “genocidal regiem”. Which is why he thinks you’re “insisting” that he “likes genocide” when you continue to state that you think he supports Hamas.
Yeah, maybe, but I think what he meant by that was that I kept insisting he’s a tankie but he believes tankie = genocide supporter.
Anyway, I do think his thing of specifying that tankies are defined by our defense of China’s genocide specifically is interesting. I already pointed out that that excludes Maoists which I can’t wait to see his reply to.
Well yeah it does, you’re on lemmy.world which sometimes has a lot of Zionist apologia. In most online political spaces, the🔻symbol is a reference to videos from Hamas where they would overlay a similar red triangle over an Israeli soldier/tank/military target before it gets hit.
I guess it’s still germane to my point, though. If you do think Hamas is cool because you hate the genocidal regime of Israel, that makes you a “tankie” or at least comparable to one in the eyes of most anticommunists. Functionally, the people who actually will fight “tankies” (as in communists) area also the people who will put you in a camp for being anti-zionist or having other left wing positions.
you’re reading too far into it my dude.
Fuck ALL genocidal regiems.
I use the red triangle specifically for my own fictional lore. Fuck everyone else ruining my day.
That’s ok, forget the red triangle. That’s fine. I’m saying that you’re loudly voicing your opposition to “tankies” but if you despise all genocidal regimes you are a tankie yourself.
the fuck are you saying that’s fucking insane
Did you read my comments above? I explained the reasoning. If you’re anti-zionist you’re a “tankie” to most anticommunists, they don’t care that you consider yourself different to the other kinds of leftists. At the end of the day we’ll be sent to the same camp.
If you subscribe to a more specific definition of “tankie” it’s probably better to just say what you mean explicitly.
How about I just call you out as gods damned insane