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[–] imrichyouknow 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] SplatterGasp 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Help a brother out, what's a tankie?

[–] goat 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right on the sidebar.

But tankies are basically Stalinists who call themselves Communists or Marxists. Their type of content is widely documented across this community.

[–] SplatterGasp 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thankyou! And didn't even realise what community I was in 🤦‍♂️

[–] goat 4 points 1 year ago

It's alright! Feel free to look around the community, be warned though, it's quite unsettling.

[–] themelm 5 points 1 year ago

Authoritarian Communists / Stalinists. Named so because they still supported the USSR even in things like sending in tanks to Hungary and Czech Republic to crush rebelliomns there in the 50s and 60s.

[–] imrichyouknow 3 points 1 year ago

Mostly people who fancy the Soviets

[–] PeachyMcPeachface 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fuck tankies. I don't think this thread makes Aiden look good as well... But they're not wrong either? Who thinks they know everything? Like, if you hadn't said they were a tankie I wouldn't know what was wrong with the conversation.

Context: I'm autistic, am I missing social cues or expectations or something?

[–] goat 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's probably likely they've been pestering their aunt nonstop about their tankie ideology.

[–] PeachyMcPeachface 1 points 1 year ago

Based of the other commenter's response, I took "need" too literally in "I don't need to learn anything else." thanks

[–] Atomic -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No one said they knew everything. The aunt said she is not interested in learning additional stuff. That she thinks she got life covered with what she got.

It's not social clues or expectations you're missing. It's reading comprehension

[–] PeachyMcPeachface 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"I don't need to learn anything else in this world." has the same meaning as "I know everything" imo. Logically, that tracks. If you don't need to learn anything else, it's because you know everything. "want" and "need" create two very different sentences. If she had said "I don't want to learn anything else," then fine, whatever, you do you.

That was the process of reading comprehension. If the reader is missing context, and/or is unable to integrate the reading to life experience that's a different issue; that had nothing to do with reading comprehension.

I guess I was taking it too literally, based on your response.

[–] pec 3 points 1 year ago

I read it the same way.

It's really a bad choice of words for a written conversation. Orally the tone applied to "need" would probably help. Also the interlocutors are familiar to each other and the conversation is probably charged with emotions.

Either way not "needing" or "wanting" to learn anything else is arrogant

[–] Atomic -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For someone who has to proclaim to the world that they're autistic, you seem awfully defensive on your reading comprehension. Didn't mean to strike a nerve.

Saying you don't need to learn anything else. Is not the same as "I know everything". She knows she doesn't know everything. And that's fine. She doesn't NEED to. I don't NEED to learn anything more about bike repairs. I know enough. Does that mean I know everything? No. Just that I'm content with what I know, and i get by just fine.

[–] PeachyMcPeachface -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Go google the six skills of reading comprehension. You don't know what you're talking about and I'm not going to sit here to do the work for you when you're not ready to listen. None of those skills have anything to do with taking something too literally, you're being ableist.

[–] Atomic -3 points 1 year ago

You were literally unable to correctly comprehend what you read in the post. But okay, It's not your reading comprehension. It's your "autism". If blaming that for not understanding rather than something else makes you feel better. Go ahead.

[–] goat 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They're autistic, dude ;c

[–] Saledovil 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They published it themselves. So they likely believe this snippet of dialogue makes them look good, which it doesn't.

[–] goat 0 points 1 year ago

I'd love to see the rest of the chain

[–] MomoTimeToDie 4 points 1 year ago

I love how they edited one message, but the the glaring typo in the very next one.

[–] Dayst0rm 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol. Immediately takes it as an insult. He's just pissed that she shut him down right away. "Read this massive book on political theory!" "Nah nephew" "Oh! Am I think then or are you god?!"

[–] goat 2 points 1 year ago

Then posting the argument in your safespace. I'd do that with random internet people, but never with family.

[–] Shit 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you link to the posts as well rather than just a screenshot? I want some mindless reading while I eat popcorn.

[–] goat -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah sorry pal, can't link threads. :c

[–] Shit 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

😭😢 you going to make a community for the other instance once they are defederated? I really like reading deranged takes on stuff.

[–] goat 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On EH? Maybe.

But EH is light compared to the neo-nazi instance. You can't even access the neo-nazi instance through the others

[–] Shit 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I guess they don't really have the user base or real discussions. Out of curiosity have you come across q people in the fedverse? They usually had some good deranged takes on stuff.

[–] goat 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, in the neo-nazi instance

[–] Shit 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] Varyk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought tankies likes dictators? This just sounds like a know-it-all a******.

I could easily still not understand what that word means though.

[–] goat 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Varyk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] goat 2 points 1 year ago

On the sidebar! Tankies are basically Stalinists and Red Fascists, red meaning authoritarian communists.

[–] goat -1 points 1 year ago

They also did a bad job at censoring their own name. It's Aiden.