The term Tankie has a clear definition that Cowbee likes to ignore:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those > who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the > occurrence of the events thereof.
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@Cowbee@hexbear.net if I were in your shoes I would be walking on sunshine. You’ve really managed a ‘Loved by Your Friends, Feared By Your Foes’ thing going. These weirdos are losing it over you for giving calm and we’ll sourced replies consistently. These folks have really put you on a pedestal or they dug so deep it has the same effect, to mix metaphors.
So yeah, congratulations on becoming the Grendel to the lemmy libs. That would put a spring in my step.
Yea, I wear it with pride! Paradoxically their absolutely overblown hatred of me tends to draw more people over to socialism and away from anti-communism. Because they are so nakedly irrational, only those already hating me take it seriously, while alienating most people from their side.
Really funny seeing the most patient person in the lemmyverse being so villainized
I’m so much meaner and I’ve never seen myself on there, I swear they go after him because he’s so patient.
I think that’s genuinely it, it’s enormously frustrating for them when I don’t return what they give.
It gets under their skin to not be able to easilt dismiss someone. Us mean people provide suppressing fire. Its a combined effort.
For real. If that’s your nemesis, maybe look st yourself and those you’re with
I actually love the imagery of that mixed metaphor, and it’s very fitting.
Thanks, I came up with it while writing it and noticed it was weird but also thought it eas pretty good
Yeah, a lot of these guys are probably losing sleep because they’re so mad about someone who they aren’t able to just hurl slurs at until they go away.
I feel like it must be exhausting. Maybe I have less capacity for being perceived than the average but it’s an tonne of emotional labour to reply the way they do.
That’s why I take breaks! And why I only saw this days later, lol. I’m doing well, actually, this kind of stuff just reinforces that what I’m doing is correct.