this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2023
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Dunking on Tankies from a leftist perspective.

A tankie is someone who defends/supports authoritarian or even totalitarian regimes who call themselves "socialist". The term originated from people supporting the 1956 invasion of Hungary by the Soviet Union. Nowadays they are just terminally online, denying genocides, and falling for totalitarian propaganda and calling such regimes "true democracies". remember to censor usernames when necessary.

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A few years ago, the Lemmy Developers decided to keep their political views on lemmygrad while keeping lemmy.ml more neutral. Now they are banning users who are critical of their actions and bigotry.

Anti-Tankie posts may put you at risk of being banned from commenting and posting on the lemmy.ml instance.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (4 children)

People: "Come to the fediverse, there are no fascists, everything is cool and free of toxicity."

The fediverse: tankies, people who simps for tankies, genocidal apologists, harassment...

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sums it up seemingly well. The only upsid is that they created a platform they can not control AFAIK. So other instances can do whatever they want.

[–] goat 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Give them time, they will eventually self-defederate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That sounds like a good idea. Saves people the effort of blocking them.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

At this point I am ready to embrace full internet solitude. The grass calls.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People have to realize where the clowns are and where they're being greenlit and encouraged, and what you can do about it. It's a good platform if you know how to deal with them. The internet will always be the internet but at least you don't have to be on the same island with these folks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think it's worth it to most people, and I'd be embarrassed for someone to find out I use Lemmy in case they checked it out.

The authoritarian propaganda is killing Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I actually told a friend I use Lemmy because we used to talk about Reddit together, they instantly replied with "ew". I immediately dropped the subject, but my first and only thought was if they ever checked it out they probably saw some hexbear stuff right away and figured the whole thing was trash.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hexbear is the worst, but it's far from the only problem. It's bad on here. I've calmly pointed out this is a biased echochamber several times and I just get downvoted.

[–] dramaticcat 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

People: “Come to the fediverse, there are no fascists, everything is cool and free of toxicity.”

There are definitely fascists on the fediverse, they don't use the reddit-like (lemmy/kbin) part of the fediverse since exploding-heads shut down.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

exploding-heads are fascists, but I wasn't talking about them.