I’m new as in this is my first day using lemmy. I don’t know anything about lemmy etiquette and don’t want to do anything bad

thanks and have an amazing day! also plz be kind :D

  • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
    83·
    16 hours ago

    Unless your politics are to the right of Joe Biden, you’re going to get called a tankie.

        • ultranaut@lemmy.world
          1·
          43 minutes ago

          That doesn’t seem true though, most actual leftists don’t like tankies and the people on Lemmy complaining about tankies seem to mostly be leftists themselves. Tankies are like LaRouchites, no one takes them seriously because the things they profess tend to be silly and they usually have that obnoxious College freshman master-debater energy. It’s not a left or right thing.

    • BurningRiver@beehaw.org
      1·
      16 hours ago

      I’ve been here a while, but I might need some help here. Everyone left of Biden is a tankie? Am I understanding you correctly?

      • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        15 hours ago

        Well, ultimately tankie just means “person too far to the left of me”, so for some liberals, that does indeed mean everyone to the left of Biden

        • IndieGoblin@lemmy.4d2.orgEnglish
          13·
          14 hours ago

          Are you a tankie because you are to the left of Joe biden or because you idealise the soviet union and the ccp?

          • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
            5·
            14 hours ago

            I’ve been called a tankie for lots of reasons: criticising Elon Musk, condemning Israels genocide of the Palestinians, opposing invading Venezuela, condemning the US’s destruction of North Korea, not believing that far right American think tanks are trustworthy, calling Kamala Harris a genocide supporter, calling bullshit on the claim that Mao had one in ten Chinese citizens executed for being a western spy. Calling bullshit on the claim that Che Guevera committed genocide. Basically anything that runs counter to the average American neo-liberal’s world view.