inb4 cm0002 automatically reposts this

    • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.mlOP
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      2 months ago

      For a while now there’s been a group of NAFO-adjacent shit-stirrers obsessing over the malign influence of the so-called ‘tankie triad’ which is lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net. This style of posting has been dubbed ‘feudposting’, and I’m parodying it in the OP.

      The joke I am making is that if you’re going for ominous names the ‘tankie troika’ is way more menacing and russian. I made this meme taking that bit to its ridiculous conclusion.

      • jaxxed@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        You could also describe the significance of the word “troika”, both in its literally translation, but also in reference to its cultural significance.

        • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.mlOP
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          2 months ago

          There’s a lot to the troika, it’s been associated with Russia for centuries. Literally means ‘a group of three’.

          The configuration of two horses galloping with one horse trotting in the middle allowed for high speeds across vast distances and is commonly referenced in russian literature, particularly authors like Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, etc.

          It’s also pretty associated with the trinity (troitsa). Triplicity is a major feature of Russian folklore and culture in general; the three brothers, the three trials, three roads, three kisses, etc.

          For revolutionaries it was the smallest organizing unit for a number of reasons and was present in both early anarchist and bolshevik cells. Some advantages were that it was agile, hard to infiltrate, and doesn’t need a leader, rather a shared direction. In many ways an anti-hierarchical organizing pattern.

          In the Stalin era it got a bit more of a sinister connotation as a ‘troika’ would be the group of officials signing off on sentences.