yet another classic. you have displayed president xi as a beloved children's cartoon character (that just happens to be yellow 🤔 ) what ever shall I do

o7 happy to hear that!

I’m well past caring

you are crying about upvotes and downvotes you can't say this when you're doing that

Putin fucks male prostitutes.

in awe at this one, why would I care about this

I had assumed you were a bog standard democrat but I apologize, didn't realize I was speaking to someone who likes to watch "FEMINIST OWNED AND TRIGGERED!!!" youtube compilations

riveting comment. truly, I've never read this type of comment before and now I've been owned!!!

I will now give the obligatory response: amerikkka is a dying empire and will not be able to stop China and socialism. die mad about it loser.

got it. for anyone else reading this: why exactly is jumping straight to mental illness as the source of any disagreement not ableist? Does someone who struggles with mental health get no say on literally any topic?

Unlike a lot of liberals coming from reddit, communists often don’t have delusions about the neutrality of moderation and so they’ll ban you on a whim if they think you’re there to stir shit.

really well articulated. I feel bad for well meaning people, but so often they don't realize it comes across as the exact same kind of bad faith trolling that communist online groups have to constantly deal with and so mods and users have little patience for it if it's not explicitly a thread for that kind of conversation.

evidence? I see people say this but from what I remember the mod team was repeatedly stonewalled by the admins, or at least that was their claims, and I don't think the admins ever disputed that

it's not really making fun of it, more just a tongue in cheek joke about large arguments

They really don’t like get called out like that, based on my interactions with them.

yes why would people get upset that you're being condescending and calling them either brainwashed or a child? one of the biggest remaining mysteries in the world really

do you have an argument that doesn't rely on ableism?

the original origin of the term was a group british communists attacking anyone who supported the Soviet Union's crushing of the hungarian uprising in 1956. it then morphed into a term used to attack anyone who supports the use of force and authority in general to suppress counter revolutionaries. it's final degeneration is that it is now used to attack anyone to the left of an american democrat like facebones said.

https://redsails.org/tankies/

here is a good article about it. To be clear: this is written from the perspective of a marxist leninist, who are normally the number one target of being called a "tankie". Still, it is very short, and redsails is a really cool website that has the footnotes with citations pop up as you read long