The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to People Twitter@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 day agoIt's truly indecipherable media.piefed.worldimagemessage-square97fedilinkarrow-up1410arrow-down117
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minus-squareMk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up157arrow-down10·1 day agoMy closest guess is that it’s a tankie viewpoint. But I think the real answer is that it was just made as a joke. The gay/trans flags being on opposite sides and the UK being on both sides seems pretty on the nose.
minus-squareAkasazh@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 hours agoThere are quite a lot of gay people who are anti trans. Which is incomprehensible to me, but it is a thing.
minus-squareblicky_blank@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 hours agoColloquially known as “pick me gays”
minus-squareTonava@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 hours agoA lot of terfs are lesbians (or at least are using lesbians as a reason to be against transpeople)
minus-squareOneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 hour agoWhich is funny, because basically all the cis lesbians I know irl are pretty staunchly against terfs.
minus-square☂️-@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down3·8 hours agoof course there is a hurr tankie take.
minus-squareMk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 hours agoLike I said, I don’t think that’s the real answer, I think it was made as a joke. I’m also not really passing judgement on tankies by saying that, it’s just the closest match I can make between that meme and a coherent ideology. I don’t see much point of beefing with tankies in general.
minus-squareRailcar8095@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·1 day agoUK fighting against a situation it created seems honestly correct
minus-squareSunoc@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up25arrow-down2·edit-218 hours agoThat’s my guess as well, but I feel too many flags on the right don’t match the core tankie bs. Biden ? Vatican ?
minus-squareKanda@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 hour agoUK on both sides, US and Israel opposite (???)
minus-squareAlcoholicorn@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 hours agoPutting Cuba and Venezuela opposed to China tells us its not a ml perspective.
minus-squarekazerniel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 day agoTbh the idea of tankies idolising freedom and Jesus seems pretty wild.
My closest guess is that it’s a tankie viewpoint. But I think the real answer is that it was just made as a joke. The gay/trans flags being on opposite sides and the UK being on both sides seems pretty on the nose.
There are quite a lot of gay people who are anti trans.
Which is incomprehensible to me, but it is a thing.
Colloquially known as “pick me gays”
A lot of terfs are lesbians (or at least are using lesbians as a reason to be against transpeople)
Which is funny, because basically all the cis lesbians I know irl are pretty staunchly against terfs.
of course there is a hurr tankie take.
Like I said, I don’t think that’s the real answer, I think it was made as a joke.
I’m also not really passing judgement on tankies by saying that, it’s just the closest match I can make between that meme and a coherent ideology.
I don’t see much point of beefing with tankies in general.
UK fighting against a situation it created seems honestly correct
Chaos is a ladder
That’s my guess as well, but I feel too many flags on the right don’t match the core tankie bs. Biden ? Vatican ?
UK on both sides, US and Israel opposite (???)
Putting Cuba and Venezuela opposed to China tells us its not a ml perspective.
Tbh the idea of tankies idolising freedom and Jesus seems pretty wild.