MeanwhileOnGrad
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Meanwhile On Grad
Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!
What is a Tankie?
Alternatively, a detailed blog post about Tankies.
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Basic Rules:
Sh.itjust.works Instance rules apply! If you are from other instances, please be mindful of the rules. — Basically, don't be a dick.
Hate-Speech — You should be familiar with this one already; practically all instances have the same rules on hate speech.
Apologia — (Using the Modern terminology for Apologia) No Defending, Denying, Justifying, Bolstering, or Differentiating authoritarian acts or endeavours, whether be a Pro-CCP viewpoint, Stalinism, Islamic Terrorism or any variation of Tankie Ideology.
Revisionism — No downplaying or denying atrocities past and present. Calling Tankies shills, foreign/federal agents, or bots also falls under this rule. Extremists exist. They are real. Do not call them shills or fake users as it handwaves their extremism.
Tankies can explain their views but may be criticised or attacked for them. Any slight infraction on the rules above will immediately earn a warning and possibly a ban.
Off-topic Discussion — Do not discuss unrelated topics to the point of derailing the thread. Stay focused on the direct content of the post as opposed to arguing.
You'll be warned if you're violating the instance and community rules. Continuing poor behaviour after being warned will result in a ban or removal of your comments. Bans typically only last 24 hours, but each subsequent infraction will double the amount. Depending on the content, the ban time may be increased. You may request an unban at any time.
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My favorite is when tankies don't have any other enemies, and you can watch them tear each other apart over whether LGBT people are people, or whether their 'comrades' in the developing world are right about Western degeneracy destroying their good, cis-straight cultures.
It's astounding to watch so many LGBT tankies sudden realize they would get the bullet in an instant, and immediately do nothing with that information.
I really don't understand why so many trans individuals state their alliance with tankies, when any government tankies support are totally fine with murdering them.
They're okay with ragging on the US' problems against the LGBT+ community (and there are many such problems to rag on), but conveniently ignore things like gay and trans people being killed in droves in Chechnya.
Might be that the total subsumption of all issues to class means that LGBT people can feel more welcomed in tankie communities as individuals because tankie communities don't regard the issue as of importance. Rather than feeling the sting of rejection in right-wing communities (and there are a terrifying number of right-wing LGBT folk) or the strong emphasis on LGBT community and culture in many left-leaning communities that may leave some feeling 'out of the loop' and depersonalized, even if that's not the general feeling or the intent.
Alternatively, LGBT people are just people, and people are often dumb. Whichever.
seems it's hard to stop having jello instead of a brain when you already have jello instead of a brain