And after some experience with them it's clear that it isn't satire, and they highly value gender inclusivity. My opinion now is that the apparent absurdity is a loyalty test. If you think fae/faer pronouns are silly, you aren't an "ally" and you are immediately identified as out-group. And the out-group, transpobes, liberals, fascists, all get lumped together so much they can't distinguish between them.

It's pretty much exactly what the right wing does. They can't distinguish between liberals, leftists, tankies, or anarchists, because it's all just "the enemy" to them.

I do not like tankies but I have absolutely never experienced this, all tankies typically want to do is discuss theory and history to the point that it's exhausting. Have you talked to any Trotskyists??

I have almost no experience with tankies tbh, so I'll be the first to say my opinions of them comes mostly from ignorance.

But so far I've heard that a "nuanced understanding of geopolitics and history" means you think "NATO made Putin do it".

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

... Which is causing people to associate pronouns with "tankie", making the rest of us non-binary and gender fluid folk look bad in the eyes of others, and we don't need to be stereotyped or negatively associated with anything right now. Or to have tankies speak or act for us. None of us asked for them to exploit us to make a statement and the fact that they're using us for cheap propaganda points is something other people need to start calling them on.

Watch one of those stupid motherfuckers cut in with "Think about that for a good five seconds" as if I'm not genderfluid myself and don't see through what they're doing. Watch them do it

[–] epicspongee@midwest.social -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they highly value gender inclusivity.

It’s pretty much exactly what the right wing does.

I'm sorry WHAT

Please tell me this is a shitpost

[–] FaeDrifter@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

Look at that, you took two unrelated parts and stripped out all of the context.

That's what we call bad-faith trolling.

Tankies can be ideologically diametrically opposed to alt-right fascists, yet use the same techniques. For example, they both love bad-faith trolling.