Bad Luck Ayatollah.

I mean, he has been fighting US & Israeli imperialism his entire life, he was an old man with failing health and infamously wanted to be martyred by US/Israel

Fuck him. And also fuck the US and Israel. As an outsider this is just all villains fighting each other.

Now watch all the tankies praise him as a honorary socialist

this is just all villains fighting each other

...and civilian collateral damage, unfortunately.

Someone should tell those suicide bombers that getting bombed while hiding in a bunker counts as martyrdom. Might save them some trouble.

Nice! Now do Putin, Trump and the rest of the dictators

Unfortunately there's also civilian collateral damage when they aren't fighting each other.

They do already. "Respected leader" one post over there said.

Can someone explain the "died on the first day" part?

He died on the first day of the current US-Israeli attacks on Iran.

Ah, I see so even though he has been against them for a long time, the joke is that counting from the actual war start it is just one day.

I am trying to get someone to explain what tankie means. People call me tankie from time to time, but I have no love for the iranian goverment.

Tankies are apologists for "communist" leaders such as Stalin, Mao and Kim. They love Russia, China and North Korea and will swear those countries can do no wrong. "Left" authoritarians... bootlickers.

At least he died doing something he loved.

Letterman?

"Tankie" is just a derogatory term for anyone to the left of the person saying it

Can we include the plutocrats and oligarchs? That seems to be the root of the problem.

Not going to defend him, but a Pedophile led nation executing/kidnaping foreign heads of states and bombing schools is not a good thing.

I am sure the hundred schoolgirls were also villains fighting each other

Every so often I am reminded Reddit liberals (who just weren't honest enough to stay there with their MAGA friends, who are closer to them than they are to anyone outside of the Western sphere) also came here. Oh well.

This shit is no joke, man, the US backed a coup and when it wasn't successful enough they murdered people, and this is not even the first time in the span of a year (in this country). And American imperialism is always, always, on the wrong side of history and ethics, because they're amoral geopolitical moves made to enrich Western aristocrats, loss of life is not even part of the equation. Stop it already, you don't have to be Greta but at least you can understand this is nothing but violence for the sake of control by the usual villains, and not make fun of it all.

And don't forget to nuke Isreal to green dust!

To Iran they were just going to be new protestors to kill.

Fuck all 3 of these authoritarian shit stains.

You guys are easy to spot these days.

All dictators have support, otherwise they wouldn't exist. The majority of Iranians did not/do not like the current regime.

are you justifying a warcrime against a school because they could have died in the future???

If you get murdered, is the murderer innocent because it is possible someone else would have murdered you later?

Shitlibs logic

You can see from the very question that poster asked that, whatever clear definition about authoritarianism or whatever you think it has, that's just not how people are actually using it. Centrists will use it for Mamdani supporters, DSA-types will use it for Marxist-Leninists, and anarchists will use it for almost literally anyone.

Too bad his death had to cost the lives of innocents....

We should savour this moment cause I feel like this would be the only good thing that is gonna come out of these string of events.

"Tankie" is just a derogatory term for anyone to the left of the person saying it

anarchists will use it for almost literally anyone

Great logic. Almost as if you're speaking shite, unless anarchists are on the right now...

How did you misread that so badly?

You sir have correctly parsed the humor included in the joke.

Was he respected by the up to thirty thousand protesters he had massacred?

Can you show an example of people calling Mamdani supporters tankies please?

Sorry, I don't save links to random stupid internet comments

No, I'm just accusing them of throwing around words that mean nothing and thinking everyone is authoritarian. Just a little joke.

Tankies exist around the world, I don't know why you're making it an american thing. It's not limited to just americans.

Not even a little bit, but typical tankie rhetoric is to call anyone who isn't at least as far to the left as them (read: approaching infinity) a fascist, so I'm not surprised to hear this from an .ml account

Exhibit A:

No one calls Mamdani a tankie, but I have seen tankies calling Mamdani a fascist. They clearly don't know what fascism is.

Centrists also don't use the term "tankie." If anything they call everyone on the left a socialist (as if it's a bad thing) or a communist or a radical leftist.

"Tankie" is specifically a word people on the left use to refer to auth-comms.

Can't, because it didn't happen.

Kinda like how tankies think everyone is a fascist (except for other tankies, of course)?

"If they don't lick bolshevik boots, they're a fascist" -average tankie

Martyrdom is a fancy word that means death for a made up religion.

Doesn’t the term come from the Tiananmen Square massacre when the army drove tanks over students?

Assuming you're not a tankie, I would guess it's your instance, which is the main one where all the tankies hang out lol