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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.
2 day ban
deserved it, deserved more
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.
I do have to talk to my manager as a part of my job and I'm pretty smug I guess
I am lucky enough to have a job where I can occasionally shitpost on the clock 
I linked the post; according to goat 'a lot' of context is coming soon™ 
From the context that exists it sounds like the dehumanizing language is calling them fascists? I would love to have them elaborate so it can be addressed rather than vaguely gesturing.
Who?
They used to systematically repost everything posted to memes@lemmy.ml to .world due to their raging hatred of the tankie triad
"NAFO" stands for North Atlantic Fella Organization. It's an internet meme movement that started on twitter (now X, the everything app) during the beginning of the war in Ukraine.
They tend to call themselves "Fella", use Shiba Inu dog avatars, memes, and shitposts to mock pro-Russian narratives online. Extremely online, I would point to things like noncredibledefense on reddit/lemmy.
They tend to frame dissenters as "useful idiots", "Putin apologists", or "tankies".
Performative about opposing Russia while the extent of their activism is generally being terminally online.
they’ll remove their posts to make you seem like you lied.
it's that or straight up gaslighting. When I called out the widespread use of 'degenerate' on meanwhile on grad being used to dehumanize whatever 'tankies' that they were sneering at, I provided 3 examples of different users doing that; one of those users in a direct reply to goat.
none of the posts in question got removed
goat has since said that 'oh it was only one user' - never mind that it was only the most egregious user out of all the examples I happened to provide (not an exhaustive list).
are you unfamiliar with nafo? or do you need me to explain the word use in context?