The person in the picture is u/spez (fastest and the goofiest picture I could find).

Also, please don’t take it seriously. It’s a shitpost. Thanks.

  • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
    185·
    1 month ago

    Reddit has tankie subs too. Latest one I noticed was TheDeprogram with more than 60k users. A highly upvoted comment from there:

    One thing worth pointing out is how Bernie is framing it like the war was started by Putin and literally no other factors were at play. Putin just started the war one day for no reason because he felt like it.

    https://old.reddit.com/r/TheDeprogram/comments/1j4l12r/bernie_got_community_noted_so_hard/mg9o2qg/

    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
      31·
      1 month ago

      There were also several instances of reddit tankies infiltrating other leftist subs to try to take them over.

  • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    51·
    1 month ago

    Maybe I’m in the minority here, but I’ve been in Lemmy for almost 2 years since the API migration, and I don’t know if I’ve ever encountered a tankie, despite seeing hundreds of memes about them.

    I’m guessing my instance just doesn’t federate with the same weird shit y’all are seeing?

    • Lemminary@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 month ago

      It depends on your instance. I was originally on .lm when they first federated with Hexbear about a year ago and got piled on by like 40 when they thought I was criticizing communism when I wasn’t and I also got banned for the sin of replying to them. The reason for banning was “troll”. Lmao

      I even got ratio’d by someone downplaying the events of the Tiananmen Square. That’s when I knew I was up to my waist.

      E: It was an immediate instance ban by an Admin iirc

    • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
      74·
      1 month ago

      .ml and hexbear are the tankie instances

      They used to have a lot of popular communities on there, but they have driven most of them off their space into other instances by now.

      If you imply that Putin or Xi are dictators you will get banned from those spaces.

      Edit: hey look, I summoned one

    • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      I have been here about as long, though it doesn’t feel like two years. I’ve decided it’s probably how some people interpret left of center views.

      Kind of like how my parents seem to interpret feminist as misandrist hell bent of world domination and not people who think compensation should be equal.

      Either that or people hearing such and such communist country was right about X and interpreting it as that country was right about everything.

      It seems like some thought terminating bullshit to me, but like you, maybe I’ve just not happened across this terrible scourge on Lemmy.

  • Tedesche@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 month ago

    That’s u/spez?!?!?

    Holy shit, 10,000 switches in my brain just clicked and the output is “Schadenfreude Upgraded.”

    • muhyb@programming.devOP
      3·
      1 month ago

      It’s goofy u/spez. Could be real too but probably an altered image. I felt like a regular spez image wouldn’t cut it so searched for a goofy one and found this.

  • shaserlark@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    1 month ago

    He really looks like he‘s about to be buh-goking, I’m going with D

    Also he really looks like I‘d imagine a Reddit mod

    • muhyb@programming.devOP
      1·
      1 month ago

      Thanks! Can we follow or subscribe to individual accounts on Lemmy though (other than RSS)? Because I’d love that.

        • muhyb@programming.devOP
          1·
          1 month ago

          Should be easy to implement I would think but what I would really want is maybe adding a couple people to my feed from Mastodon (or other fediverse) as well as inside Lemmy. Unlike Reddit, Fediverse has the power to do this.

    • Lemminary@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 month ago

      “Tankies” is a pejorative term used to describe hardline supporters of authoritarian communist regimes, particularly those who defend the actions of the Soviet Union during events like the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the Prague Spring in 1968. The term has evolved to also refer to modern supporters of similar ideologies, including those who back policies of countries like Russia and China.

      DDG LLM response

      See also:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie