https://lemmy.ml/comment/16430292
Brave take at the top of the screenshot which was then flooded by minions of the grad.
I tried to not post any Cowbee because it was too easy but you're welcome to check out the thread and post your own findings.
this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2025
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Cowbee “Tankie Influencer” is some underrated high comedy right there, I tell you what.
What defines a tankie is the authoritarianism, not whatever economic theory they profess to believe in.
Btw, on voyager you can use “share as image”, which is a bit nicer than screenshots:
First of all: Thank you for your fantastic app.
Secondly: I had no idea I could do that I just keep discovering new things. Thank you so much!
With Chinese characteristics. Don't forget the Chinese characteristics.
I'm gonna be real, I think we've lost all credibility to talk shit as we just had our own night of the long knives.
Living under a fascist regime doesn't strip you of the ability to criticize other fascist regimes. On the contrary, if you allow other fascists to peddle their tripe uncontested, you will end up with Anschluss, not liberation.
Just remember that this fuckwad regime we live under comes first for taking fire.
Yeah it just feels like crabs in a bucket again though.
How do you tag people?
On Android I use Voyager app. I press on the name of a user, then 3 dots appear on the top right of the screen. Then I tap them and at the bottom an edit tag button appears.
If it's not there you need to first go into settings --> User Tags --> then activate with the toggle.
I'm using Voyager also, but couldn't find the option. Had to enable it in the settings. Thanks for the info!
Tankies aren't a left/right thing - they're loyalists. Their whole deal is ingroup loyalty, and their ingroup is leftists. All the theory and rhetoric is just a fun game they're happy to play along with. After all... isn't that what everyone's doing?
This tribalism is all there is conservatism. It's not a political ideology. It's a worldview without objective truth. There is only what the people above you say, because they must be right in all cases, or they wouldn't belong above you.