yo… everyone is laughing cause its kind of funny but I had a really intense and traumatic childhood… and I also played a lot of tetris as a kid. Like more than 12 hours a day of it.

Is that seriously why my trauma didn’t effect me like it would have with other people??

That’s fucking nuts. Like what.?.

you can fuck right off to hexbear/lemmygrad with the tankies

I’m not on hexbear and I don’t like that userbase.

Honest mistake

Really? Why not just… read usernames? I already assumed that was his mistake but there isn’t like a timer to post. You can sit here and read things before responding. You can even edit posts after you make them.

And I’m aware of why it gets brought up. I saw the mega post about it too.

I stand by what I said. It’s annoying to see it constantly. And I do only see it on lemmy.

by complaining about people using the perjorative you’re essentially like the teacher punishing the victim for being fed up enough to finally hit the bully back who has been hitting the victim while the teacher has their back turned.

Interesting you should mention this. I’m Filipino and there was this racist kid in my class who always said racist shit to me and would fuck with me all the time, would even beat me up sometimes.

This was second grade. We were walking in single file line back to class and he was behind me, stepping on the back of my shoes to fuck with me while I was walking.

I turned around, and punched him right in the stomach. I was sent to the principals office and got in trouble. My parents were called in and all that. I believe he also got in trouble but it didn’t matter. He still said racist things to me after that but he stopped physically fucking with me.

So nah. I don’t think that’s a good metaphor for what’s happening here.

I didn’t say it was a buzzword.

I’m in the US and “lefty” might mean something different for me than it does for you. Where I live and the sites I go on - have leftys on there but no, they never use the term tankie.

Annoying is an opinion yes, but I’m saying its annoying because of how often it is brought up. Not that I’m siding with tankies or people who are against tankies.

Anything that gets repeated over and over is going to come across as annoying. Unless you like redundancy.

I never saw that word used until I came to lemmy. I had to look it up and found that exact same wiki page for it.

Just because its a real word with a wiki page doesn’t make it any less annoying to constantly see on here. And only here. I see that word on NO other sites I ever visit.