I keep seeing “fuck tankies” everywhere, and seem to see people getting called “tankie” for any number of things–I used to feel like I knew what it meant (the formal definition, which I thought was the only application) but that’s clearly not the case anymore. Saw someone get called one because they… Liked the idea of universal basic income and wanted walkable cities? And now the same sentiment is on a large number of Lemmy communities, lol.

I feel like I’ve been living under a rock.

Edit: Wow, I guess it’s just as meaningless of a term now as it seemed. At least it’s a nice, bright flag for ghouls not worth engaging with meaningfully, lol. I saw “fuck tankies” on a genderqueer community and got pretty confused on how the two ideas correlated in the slightest, so I guess that was the tipping point on me finally asking about it.

    • spacesweedkid27 [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I don’t belive that reeducation camps are something bad. I mean we do it all the time with people that are too dangerous for society like mass murderes or rapists.

      I just think that there is no reason for violence in this.

      We can just do it like school does: In my 12 years of primary education I have been taught that you should behave as capitalistic as you can be: We even had a lecture called “economy and politics” where we mostly talked about how to inverst or on how to start your own buissness. The only “politics” we had were west-centric post WW2 propaganda in which they told us how good the west has been for my country: Germany.

      And the dumb thing is that in every country there is you can study this lecture basically at the university. Here it’s called “Betriebswirtschaftslehre” which would more or less be “Buissness administration” . This is a lecture that talkes about economy with the following premises: The human is evil, won’t share, aka Communism bad Captalism good.

      And this really is the go to education for most people here that either suck at learning (because it’s easy) or don’t know what to study.