Something to agree upon.

And fuck nazis

These are the two genders: "tankie" and "other".
- That makes me technically trans.

Got my first warning from upvoting Luigi.
I will keep upvoting him :)
- Back in 2017(?) I got whale whaled for telling a racist to commit seppuku. Would've worded it differently but I don't wholly regret it
- I got banned for posting an animated gif of Luigi.

also saying Luigi can be considered flagged too.

I left Reddit because they killed 3rd party apps. Since that day, they've only gone on to butcher the platform even further.
Joining Lemmy was a damn good decision.
- Enshitification drives stock prices. Only the rich care about stock prices and they have no interest in using the platform. The platform dies off a death of a thousand cuts… story as old as time
  
  I think it's more stock prices / shareholders drive enshittification
  
  I still don't understand it, how does making a product worse drive stock prices?
- damn good indeed! plus with a proper app for mastodon and pixelfed we've got it all!
- There are other lemmy-like sites as well BTW
- Here here!
  
  Hear, hear!*
  Common mistake. The expression means 'to listen to this person'.

Pretending that is not tankie behaviour 😂😂

Ok. I'm new here. What's a tankie
Edit: tysm everyone for the answers
- People who are obsessed with tanks
  
  Freshwater or salt?
  
  No you’re thinking of Acoustic people
  
  Panzer IV my beloved
  
  I blame Red Alert 2. Love me some comically large tanks with multiple barrels and missile racks.
  
  Ah that's me
- People that Stan authoritarian countries. The term comes from when the USSR crushed liberation movements with tanks in the Republics and many western communists approved of the crushing. People who love China, Russia, Assad’s Syria, etc are tankies.
  
  Makes sense. Tyvm
- Derogatory term accusing someone of being a communist/Marxist.
  
  More specifically, Stalinist/Maoist/any-other-„communist“-tyrant-ist. It refers specifically to people who excuse/deny tyranny and oppression caused by anyone who calls themselves communist.
  
  No, it's specifically authoritarian communists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
  Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
- Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
  Just avoid the Tankie Triad (.ml, hex and grad) and you'll be fine
  
  I think hexbear.net is expired, so hexbear straight up isn't an option atm.
  EDIT: it's back up, as cm0002 pointed out.
- Corpo speak for communist originally, but now just used for most left-leaning people. Sucks though because I used it endearingly and now it's used for center-left people who are far from communist :(
- these days it's just Blue Team's version of "woke"
  
  Yeah, suck it blue! I mean red! I mean blue! Ugh!

Context:
Reddit will now issue warnings to users who “upvote several pieces of content banned for violating our policies” within “a certain timeframe,” starting first with violent content, the company announced on Wednesday.
“This will have no impact on the vast majority of users as most already downvote or report abusive content,” a Reddit employee says in the announcement post. In comments on the post, a user expressed concern that the new policy could make people “paranoid about voting,” but the employee says that “this would be an unacceptable side effect, which is why we want to monitor this closely and ramp it up thoughtfully.”
If it violates policies, remove it and move on. This is weird.
“We have done this in the past for quarantined communities and found that it did help to reduce exposure to bad content, so we are experimenting with this sitewide,” according to the main post. Reddit “may consider” expanding the warnings in the future to cover repeated upvotes of other kinds of actions as well as taking other types of actions in addition to warnings.
Now that there is Thoughtcrime territory.
- the thought police.
- “Hey investors look away from the huge pile of porn we’re hosting and look at these cool content filters we’re adding”.
  
  Porn, you say? 🧐
- This reminds me lots of when Facebook started applying warnings/bans/etc retroactively to content without any context. I remember getting several wrist slaps in the same month for content I had shared a decade prior that really wasn't all that bad. But Facebook decided it was a problem and made me question what I was allowed to post in the future. It didn't take long after that for me to stop using Facebook completely.
  
  and reddit is copying the same methods, retroactively banning people, additionally any old acct with comments that are also old can be reported by other users still.

It’s actually old hat. Users on r/cth (where hexbear came from) were catching admin bans for upvoting the “wrong” posts years ago.
- What was wrong about them?
  
  Stuff along the lines of Luigi-posting. CTH was much more of a proper “all the left” community with everyone from soc dems on up that was largely just filled with anti-establishment shit posters. But, we loved John Brown etc.
  
  CTH was not very moderative of leftist hot takes. One of the things that probably contributed to their ban was that they regularly brigaded other subreddits (this was a common complaint throughout Reddit when I used it), and they regularly left calls for violence up such as "Guillotine Biden Now". They were also accused of ban evasion and other minor things.
  EDIT: As another vector of this, there were similar accusations leveled at CTH as hexbear and Lemmy grad, where users claimed being banned for not buying more extreme views.
  
  they often approve of the racial genocides, hunting down of the lgbt and other morally reprehensible stuff this authoritarian regimes did.
  Tankies are economically leftwing but their social views can be...questionable

The exact wording seems to be "banned content", which includes a lot more than just violence (is violence banned in the first place, considering subs like r/PublicFreakout?).
- Yeah tbh if it were just violent content I'd be fine with that. I still don't trust Reddit as a platform anymore, but I'd be 100% understanding of the rule.
  Banned/Removed-by-Admin content, though? That's absurd. That's way too broad.
  
  "Violent content" could also be videos of officer misconduct, and there's the whole can of worms of what "promoting violence" means.
  
  Guarantee something like posting a picture of Luigi will be considered banned content promoting violence.
  Edit: Called it
- I think it's advocating violence, and extreme violence (things like terrorist beheading videos and such) that are banned. Things like Waffle House fights likely won't meet the banning threshold.
  
  I assume this is prompted by Luigi-inspired death threats to CEOs. If they are monitoring this so closely, I bet the FBI might want to take a look at those records too...
  
  I think it very well could, as well as any other reddit corporate agenda such as removing content at request of pieces of shit who punch and berate service staff and then later sue to remove said content from the internet. It's a necessary distinction.

Obligatory fuck u/spez (with a large pineapple preferably)
- I hope his pineapple sizes pale in comparison to Trump's and Elon's.

Its still not as bad as how Twitter works. If you wanna say “kill all the (group)” you just search for someone else who wrote it and then retweet that. Then if someone challenges you, you just say “not my words bro”.

What is a tankie?
- I think Wikipedia's description is good: "Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof."
- Since we're counting to ten:
  Classic tankies are the authoritarian leaning communists, that is communists willing to use (military) power to accomplish their goals and will voice those more aggressive sounding opinions.
  
  Ah, thank you!
  
  No, that's not true. Authoritarians can't be communist, because communism is stateless. You mean authoritarian socialists.
- The nationalists hanging around in leftist spaces
  
  Thank you!
- It used to be a word for people who defended Stalin sending tanks to Hungary in the 50s. It caught on in leftist discourse as a word for leftists who excuse illegitimate state violence, domestically and abroad. Though on Lemmy, like reddit before it, it's mostly thrown around at anyone who disagrees that the US used to a be radiant light in the world until 2016 or anyone left of Pelosi.
  
  It used to be a word for people who defended Stalin sending tanks to Hungary in the 50s.
  Stalin was dead by then!
  For God sake, could people learn about things before giving their takes?
  
  Lol that makes a lot of sense. Thank you!
- So if you know what the word "commie" meant during the cold war, "tankie" means the same thing, just said by people who don't want to seem like elderly boomers
- Radical centrists who want a form of socialism where everyone is oppressed by the state, thereby combining the ideas of the left and the right.
  
  That sounds.... terrible.
- To me seems to be people that think that the evil imperialist actions of countries that claim(ed) to be Communist are excused by the evil imperialist actions of the USA.
  
  Got it, thank you!
- You're about to get 10 different answers, most would say
  Any user from the Lemmygrad and Hexbear instances, and some from Lemmy.ml
  Genocide deniers
  Pro-Russia and pro-China users
  I think it's just a derogatory term for anyone that's anti-imperialism/liberalism
  
  Nah we anti-imperialists don't fit in to that
  
  I have never seen a tankie oppose liberalism. I've seen plenty of tankies say they oppose liberalism, but then they act like liberals. It's very confusing.
  
  Got it, thank you!
- People who support real communism. Think the USSR and Communist China. They're called tamkies because they used tanks to kill civilians.
  
  They weren’t civilians, they were fascist counter-revolutionary gangs who wanted to reinstate a Austro-Hungarian monarchy.
  
  real communism
  How exactly do you define this?
  
  Thank you!

Just another way to allow hateful right wing content to stay up while punishing users who aren’t retarded for upvoting Luigi memes and saying trump is a fascist etc
What else is new on Reddit? They should just pull the trigger and make an official bigots only policy like twitter

I hate the uprising of the word tankie like the rise of the word woke. Just more language to make walls between people.

In case you're wondering what's considered "violent content" on Reddit and how far they'll push this definition, calling the top 10 breakdown of healthcare CEOs "Luigi's List" counts.

In general, aligning with Tankies for any reason, ever, will just trigger a reactionary bias against whatever message you're promoting. I'm not saying I dissagree automatically, but it's the opposite of helping your case.
When Tankies agree with a statement I have to stop for a moment and reassess how that statement can be used to maim and destroy western democracies or if they're just making another show of pretending to have morals.
- Western bourgeois democracies, a.k.a. capitalist oligarchies.
  
  fucking tankie
- Yeah we can both hate tankies (lovers of brutal dictatorships) and reddit (a now sucky media platform).
  This post is quite crappy and wrong IMO.