I think they were joking

What “slam” though? Why not just press the clutch down? I’ve driven manuals before and definitely didn’t have to do any slamming of the pedals, it worked great.

Yah, it was a joke based on the ambiguous title. Lemmy is just reeeeeally bad at recognizing sarcasm, even when it’s literally labeled as such, lol.

Wow, y’all really don’t know what /s means, huh?

The sign of a good game is when it takes 10 hours to get into… (/s)

Yeah, definitely not what I would call a niche podcast. I mean, I guess it is niche, but I also guess that when I said “niche” before, I really meant “small listenership”. Then people are pretty much just always cool!

Idk about that, I miss my niche podcast subreddits, it’s just one big quote-fest.

“What do you fear?” is not very specific, is there another question the title is supposed to be referring to?

Damn, even your bootlegs have ads?! Bummer.

Come in, it’s pretty simple… machine. Fuck.

Always has been, is this news to people?

Got my taxes done. Pretty early this year too!

My point was to answer your question, which I did. What’s your point here?

And it not being “objectively true” doesn’t mean I care! Look friend, I’m obviously not going to go around trying to use “my version” of words I’ve ironically redefined for a “snarky” Internet comment, no one else would even understand it. But if all you post about is missile guidance systems and gun manufacturers, I’ll call you a tankie in my head and laugh. At least something about it will be funny then (seriously, I just haven’t seen one funny/comprehendable meme in that community, so I just assume they’re all nut jobs).

I mean, I guess I thought if it was satire, it would be funny. It seems like you need very specific, detailed knowledge of military minutiae for any of the jokes to land, which would ostensibly come from having a passion for said minutiae.

I actually can, that’s the beauty of language! It doesn’t mean it has to change for you or anyone else, but every word is a symbol, and every symbol is subjective to the person using it. Obviously I know the historical context of the word, but that doesn’t stop present day experiences from affecting those symbols in my mind. Unfortunately you can’t control how I define or use a word, as much as you’d like to. If you love guns and war and organized mass murder, you’re a tankie in my book.

Every time I open an NCD meme, it has a gun or a tank or a military drone or some other implement of murder and destruction. I’ve never seen one of these supposed genocide-defending “communists” in 20+ plus years on the Internet, so I repurposed the term to make more sense.

Like I said, I know what you all use it to mean and the historical context of the term, but language evolves, I just applied it more logically and obviously. Mine doesn’t need historical context, a tankie is someone who likes tanks, jet fighters, battleships, trebuchets, etc. You know, large-scale murder fanbois. Like, yeah the hexbear memes are cringey and largely illogical, but half of them are about lgbt+ stuff or just nothing at all. The NCD memes are literally all about war. The whole basis of socialism is striving towards a society where everyone has what they need, not striving towards a society where everyone has a home-defense AK.

From my experience, “tanky” just means socialist/communist, which is an obviously idiotic, reductivist generalization. Based on actual reality, I don’t know a group of people it makes more sense to call tankies than the NCD crowd.

From the “memes” I’ve seen there, it’s just a bunch of bootlicking gun nuts and military fanbois. They’re the actual, literal tankies.