Calling the communist victims of the Holocaust "tankies" is definitely a historically literate thing to do.
That said, I'm pretty sure tanks were necessary for liberating the concentration camps but what do I know about WWII battlefield tactics?
For posting all the anonymous reactionary bullshit that you can't post anywhere else.
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Calling the communist victims of the Holocaust "tankies" is definitely a historically literate thing to do.
That said, I'm pretty sure tanks were necessary for liberating the concentration camps but what do I know about WWII battlefield tactics?
"Tankie" has only ever meant "commie" anyway.
they were tankies, t-34 heads what up.
we're taking it back bby, tankies 4 lyfe
One less nazi on lemmy ml at least
Gonna complain about being censored by the tankies in the future, certainly.
@_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com holocaust revisionism is genocide denial AND antisemitism.
In case you are actually interested in a serious response here are the symbols used in holocaust camps. The first of these, the red triangle, designates "political" prisoners, which was applied overwhelming to communists and social democrats (meant the same thing at the time anyway).
Here is another shorter chart in English:
You are poorly educated on this topic and should sincerely read some actual books instead of getting everything you know from internet comment sections then screaming at the people who are correct because the information you're being corrected on doesn't fit into your deeply deeply propagandised worldview.
Oh and calling everyone that says anything you dislike a russian bot is indistinguishable behaviour from the IDF calling everyone they dislike Hamas. Deeply unserious behaviour.
communists and social democrats (meant the same thing at the time anyway)
Doing Holocaust revisionism to own the tankies
Holocaust revisionism? on .world??
that place is getting stranger and stranger
I think as time goes on, without a large influx of new users, instances largely coalesce into the real "True Believers" of the general line of an instance. Lemmy.world's stock-standard anticommunism gets taken to it's natural next step, fascist apologia.
I'm so Pro-Ukraine I'm writing about the double genocide. My name is Timothy Snyder.
Their attempts at trying to smuggle in flat Earth mumbo jumbo is a dog whistle for fascism (ask flat Earthers who's behind the conspiracy to fool people into thinking the Earth is flat).
checks notes
Didn't check enough notes lmao
hey how does that one famous poem start again? It goes "First they came for the tankies and said hey redfash you're with us" right?
Happy to see GP is genuinely reading Blackshirts and Reds like I told them to and now recommending it to others. Very lib, and very anti-communist (hence "Marxist apologia"), but I genuinely think there's a sliver of a chance that they will end up radicalized from seeing the utter nonsense divorced from reality the anticommunists bring in light of having read some Parenti.
@_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com why are you like this? You're trying to pretend you did not argue against the fact that the holocaust was started to persecute Communists.
You attempt this deception when we can all see what you have written. And then you try to pretend like that doesn't matter because "it wasn't a question."
Why?
What do you gain from behaving like this?
You're not fooling anyone and, since you're at least able to read and write, I'll assume you're sapient enough to realize how sad and shit your attempt is. So why? Why not just say "my bad" or the like? This defensiveness and sad attempt to move goal posts confuse me and I'd like to understand why dumbass libs like you behave in this way.
all the smug confidence of a complete, willful ignorance... that has got to be the most loyal Bill Maher fan in the world.