Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to communists who express support for one-party communist regimes that are associated with Marxism–Leninism, whether contemporary or historical. It is commonly used by anti-authoritarian leftists, including anarchists, libertarian socialists, left communists, democratic socialists, and reformists to criticise Leninism, although the term has seen increasing use by liberals and right‐wing factions as well

So, not me. but still random lemmy users will screech tankie at me.

way to suck all the cool out of it by being American.

Thanks, that’s what I figured since my experience has been have a job or be homeless and it really is my ass onto the street as soon as there is only small unemployment checks.

If you don’t pay taxes, you’re arrested

what? Depends on the numbers I think.

I get this sucks but you can quit your job and walk away from your employer, theoretically.

Yeah and be homeless.

And I don’t participate in government shit unless I have to like taxes cause they’ll come for me if I don’t pay for them kind of thing.

yeah I use to work at a place that had “CSAT” I don’t remember what it stands for but a lot of companies use it and some use it more than others.

Basically it’s the same but usually those surveys provide open ended comments where the customers can rip you a new one if they feel like they didn’t get what they wanted. You could be telling a customer no based on policy, and then a manage will see the bad review and use that to give you a talking to about work improvement.

It’s so incredibly backwards.

I agree but that doesn’t really clear up what I was trying to understand?

I just imagine you as like a stiff Japanese business man and you’re constantly holding up a katana, waiting to cut someone’s head off for a petty crime.

Nah, they won’t do it anymore.

And your example of people “ending up on the streets” is such a fucking edge case.

It’s really not. See Portland, Oregon. It’s pretty much over run with homeless people at this point.

Right? I’m trying to figure out how I could be a tankie but also in the US…

sure, just sign up to like 10 credit cards, max them out getting good reliable camping equipment, and take a large loan out for one of those survival vans and flea the country

This must be the same thought process of the people I see living in camping vans and tents down the street from me.

The government is legally authorized to separate you from your possessions, your freedom, and even your life in extremis. Your boss can’t do any of that and if they try the government should stop them.

there was just a work email put out where I work about how employees shouldn’t be going to the bathroom super often and if they are in the bathroom they should only be doing bathroom things.

I can’t report them for that but it is fucking extreme and dehumanizing. To be policed in the bathroom. Because company time is more important than bodily functions. Or whatever other reason someone might be in the bathroom.

Really? What’s wrong with someone having a say in who their boss is?

pay bills past their due.

I hate that all my bills are like forced automation so I can’t plan out when I can pay them, I’m forced to pay them all at the beginning/end of the month - there’s no options to change the date any more and if you call up and ask, they get all weepy and apologize that they can’t offer a different date to pay.

So I’m just forced to let them all go through and then play catch up cause of how I get paid not lining up with the end/start of every month.

Thankfully my job will reimburse me for one of my bills but of course they take fucking forever to process the reimbursement.

I will continue running mine with an iron fist as a dictatorship

Why do you talk like you’re in a kung fu movie?

god forbid someone steal a packet of soy sauce.

In a workplace you’re trading your labour, skills, and time for money. Think of it more like a convenience store, do you get to vote for the guy behind the counter, do you get to vote for the prices of the products? How would a convenience store be able to function if the customers could vote on these things?

Isn’t that supply and demand? If something doesn’t sell enough, it stops being on the shelf. You vote with your purchases.

Some places even give out surveys where you would rate the person who helped you. Some places take those surveys seriously and if you get bad ratings, they fire you.

The issue is that people are pretty unwilling to be homeless or starve if there’s an alternative (no matter how terrible).

Maybe I’m misunderstanding you but I’ve been homeless before and I don’t think it’s an “issue” that I don’t want to go back to that.

I think they are amab but they ride the androgyny line pretty hard so I can’t really tell.

I started wearing a trans flag necklace and noticed they started really warming up to me once they saw it. Last time I was around them they made it a point to stand very close to me to tell me something so you’re right - I think I just need to ramp up my interest in them so they notice more.