r/TankieTheDeprogram 6d ago

Authoritarian Mod Post We just hit 30K! What do you think of the sub?

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We originally started out as a small hard-line offshoot of the original Deprogram sub before it's ban pushing us into being it's primary successor with some of the mod team including me being from the old sub, we've gained an overwhelming 25K members over the past year partly as result.

The rapid growth has cause some growing pains unfortunately, we're proud to welcome u/sillysnacks, u/bullhead2007 and u/AvaTryingToSurvive to the mod team to help with the amount of traffic we're now getting.

A few questions:

How do you fell with the current state of the sub?

Are we doing a good job and is there anything you'd like to see changed?

And how did you find the sub, via the old one or somewhere else?

Thank you all for your support and we hope to serve you well!

(Art above is by fanteLiscio, they make great stuff!)


r/TankieTheDeprogram 11d ago

Weekly Discussion We Interviewed a Guy Who Snuck Through a Military Blockade with @Boy_Boy Aleksa (Weekly discussion)

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 1h ago

Shit Liberals Say Get ready for more orientalist racism

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From the same Z!onists that brought you the first racist “dictator” movie.


r/TankieTheDeprogram 2h ago

Shitposting Art of the Deal.

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 6h ago

Meme Just pull the trigger✌️🫩

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 9h ago

History The first and last time when China and USSR leaders met

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 2h ago

Liberal Mockery Street interview in Japan: "During WWII, which country attacked Pearl Harbor?"

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 2h ago

History “But Zohran can’t do anything about Netanyahu being in NYC”

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If all he’s willing to do is make a viral video, maybe- just maybe, he’s not doing all he can


r/TankieTheDeprogram 2h ago

Shitposting Why does Israel hate hummus?

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I like hummus and don't understand why Israel hates it.

Israelis shoot children and then blame hummus. They blame everything on hummus.


r/TankieTheDeprogram 5h ago

Theory 📚 In light of recent the rise of Chinese AI models. Here's a throwback to these predictions made by Jiang Zemin after retirement from leadership. These predictions became true. And this just goes to show how effective and insightful to having engineers and technocrats running the leadership.

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 14h ago

Liberal Mockery Reaction image to deployed on anyone who says Commies killed billions

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 5h ago

Liberal Mockery Go home feds you're dumb

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Lmao who do this shit in the day? You know when land developers hire arsonists they have getaway car ready at the corner it's literally that fucking stupid because there's a reason why crimes happen at midnight most and not when pigs around which is funny because the NYPD pigs conveniently not found here.


r/TankieTheDeprogram 3h ago

Liberal Mockery REPUBLICANS : It's the 🇨🇳 CHINESE! DEMOCRATS : It's the 🇷🇺 RUSSIANS!🤣

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 12h ago

Shit Liberals Say Who "fetish"ises what?

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 3h ago

Communism Will Win This ain't gonna be imaginary for long

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Peak song I found on reunification.


r/TankieTheDeprogram 9h ago

News/Communist Propaganda ☭ Trump administration weighing military options in Mali, officials say

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 2h ago

News/Communist Propaganda ☭ Another “Unsinkable aircraft carrier” since Israel is falling apart?

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 11h ago

Meme get rekt

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 1h ago

Axis of Resistance How lucky, Fed and Flock in the same photo.

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Fed made a ridiculous uturn and never turned lights or sirens on. Flock outside Dick's Sports at Oxmoor Mall Louisville KY.


r/TankieTheDeprogram 19h ago

Liberal Mockery "OMG he condemned Benjamin Netanyahu. He's a true leader. Common W." Democrat Socialists are basically liberals: Talk the Talk. But don't walk the walk.

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 12h ago

Meme Proud to say it's oc

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 1h ago

Theory 📚 The World You Were Born Into Is Ending

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 5h ago

Discussion Well color me surprised!

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 1d ago

Liberal Mockery NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani officially announces that he cannot arrest Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu when he enters New York City, walking back a campaign promise, because he lacks the independent legal authority to enforce the International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant against war criminals

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450 Upvotes

r/TankieTheDeprogram 9h ago

Discussion The Annihilation of the PKI and Its Lessons

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Background

The PKI was the 3rd largest communist party and the largest non-ruling communist party in the world, leading up to the Indonesian politicide of their party members, real or suspected, during 1965 to 1966 (“Anti-Communist Massacres,” 2025). The PKI was reported to have 3.5 million members in 1965 and at least 15 million in affiliated groups (“The Indonesian Communist Party,” 1966). The PKI had an affiliated trade union federation, the Indonesia Central Organization of Labor (SOBSI), which had 50% of Indonesia's unionized workers among its members; the PKI had built the makings of a prefigured society with not only a federation of trade unions but also education programs, choirs, sports teams, et cetera (Hindley, 1964). This would not be enough after the entire PKI and China were framed by the Indonesian Army, headed by Suharto, for an assassination plot and coup attempt by the 30th of September Movement, led by then-President Sukarno’s bodyguards (“Telegram A-673,” 1966; Lashmar et al., 2021).

In this attempt, the movement targeted seven of the top generals who were deemed anti-communist; all but one was killed (Lashmar et al., 2021). This was likely done out of fear that an ailing Sukarno's death would leave a power vacuum that would be filled by the mostly anti-communist army. The General Secretary of the PKI, D. N. Aidit, likely had a similar fear, as he wanted to raise a people’s militia called the Fifth Force that would be trained by the more progressive air force (Zhou, 2014). After the coup failed to secure power, the air force, Fifth Force, and leftist battalions of the PKI were overrun by the Indonesian Army, culminating in the capture of the Halim air force base (Zhou, 2014). The politicide and genocide that occurred would leave up to a million killed by the Indonesian Army and its death squads, with assistance from the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Japan (Kim, 2002).

Lessons

To preface this, there are situations where conditions are so difficult that there is no decisive solution for the communist movement. These lessons are not meant to disrespect our fallen comrades, but to respect them by trying not to share their fate. Some of these lessons include what the PKI got right or slightly right. I will primarily be applying these lessons to the United States, as I understand their conditions the best compared to other countries. Someone in the comments could add some of their own applied to the country or countries they are knowledgeable about.

  1. Join or form socialist self-defense gun clubs as soon as possible.
  2. Do not concede the military to the capitalist class. A vanguard party should continue to educate, agitate, and organize within the military.
  3. Prefigure society, even on the most local level.
  4. Understand the importance of organized labor, but know its weakness when the unionized working class is unarmed.
  5. Do not have the revolutionary movement practically hanging by the string of the administration of the nationalist anti-colonial president.
  6. In nearly all or every case, do not trust any top military leader to be part of a socialist coup.
  7. Do not engage in “decapitation plots” of anti-communist generals when most of the rank and file soldiers are still anti-communist.
  8. If in a very religious society, do not allow the movement to become and/or be labeled as strictly atheistic.

Please comment any other lessons we can learn from the PKI.