She’s a friend!

The fact that he’s circumcized raises some implications

Our posts are so bad, no bot wants to scrape them

Yeah, I’ll second this. There are a lot of things you could say about a lot of Anime, though must of them also apply to western cinema too (imperial whitewashing, sexualization of women and girls, etc.), but that’s not really why people oppose it so heavily.

It’s because anime is a medium that, on hexbear anyway, is frequently enjoyed by women, especially trans women.

Plus, looking at a fully clothed cartoon woman and calling her inherently pornographic is… A choice

Why do you hate women? /s

The people who initially coined it weren’t necessarily pacifists, they just disagreed with how the Soviets conducted themselves in Eastern Europe. But otherwise yeah, you’ve got it.

Tankie mostly gets used by centrist liberal types to punch left, but I’ve seen Tucker Carlson’s weird Russia sycophancy get called Tankie once or twice also ¯_(ツ)_/¯

That’s the Hexbear Shrine to DortOwl, mashallah

Isn’t Vic3 basically a historical materialism simulator, and the chuds were mad that Communism was OP? If I recall, they wanted it nerfed, but that didn’t really happen.

“Tankie” is a word that originates from British communist circles in the 50s. It was used by communists who opposed the Soviet invasion of Hungary to derisively describe their comrades who supported the invasion. Photos in the British newspapers and such showed a lot of imagery Soviet tanks rolling through Budapest, hence “tankie”.

So, it has its origins as a silly sounding, incredibly niche, bit of British slang. It faded into obscurity after this, but got picked up again by leftists on the internet as a way of poking fun at each other. It’s a funny sounding word and all. At a certain point over the last decade or so, it’s breached containment, and liberals, especially here on Lemmy, love to throw it around without really having a firm idea what they mean by it. I’ve seen everyone from Marxist-Leninists, to Anarchists, to liberal Pro-palestian activists, all called “Tankies”.

OP is using the term here to poke fun at that vague liberal usage. As many liberals, at least here on Lemmy, would look at the calculus of, “US foreign policy is more erratic and dangerous than that of China” and declare it a “tankie” talking point, or “simping for authoritarianism”, as though making an observation about different nation’s foreign policy approaches says anything else about ones opinions of those states other policies or actions.

I’m making a glib joke about the liberal insistence on utilitarianism when it comes to voting, and how that ethical framework isn’t evenly applied to international relations.

And here I thought liberals loved choosing the lesser evil, smh

But you’re talking to MLs right now…

Just log off, please. Nobody likes this shit

Buddy…asking you to back up you’re claim isn’t bad faith. Are you fucking stupid?

I genuinely want to know about the things you’re claiming, and you won’t pony up the information. I’m not the one acting in bad faith. I responded to you, and pressed you, because you called another poster, who rightfully pointed out Canada’s status as a settler colony, “not nice”. If anything, trivializing the problem of Colonialism like that is what’s bad faith here.

Nah man, telling me to do the leg work for you sucks actually.

You said:

Canadians have become aware of our colonial past and are working to correct it with Indigenous Canadians

Great! Show me! Back that up!

That’s all very cool, do you have any info on initiatives doing this work in Canada, that I could read?

Don’t get me wrong, that’s great! But how extensive is that work, when it comes to truly writing the wrongs of settler-Colonialism? That’s a really big traumatic scar that impacts every area of a country’s political life and institutions. Pointing that fact out, instead of treating Canadian white supremacy as somehow “new”, isn’t just some rude bummer of a take.

Y’know what’s not nice? Colonizing other people’s land ¯_(ツ)_/¯

“Entering”

Canadians genocided their indigenous populations in the same way the Yanks did, this isn’t new

Ok, cool. But… What does being cis have to do with not owning a dragon cock dildo??