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Welcome to MoG!
Meanwhile On Grad
Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!
What is a Tankie?
(caution of biased source)
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.
"If the October Revolution wouldn't have succeeded, you would have seen that socialist parties were the REAL fascists!"
Yeah, that's about the level of 'Left Unity' I expect from tankies.
"Anti-authoritarianism is actually support of the status quo"
Jesus Christ.
Olympic Mental Gymnastics
"I got banned for supporting authoritarianism, before I had a chance to tell them the best solution to most political problems is a bullet to the head. I'm so confused!"
"Anti-authritarianism opposes all revolution"
When you are casually admitting that you are replacing pest with cholera. Leave it to hexbears to see nothing wrong with that.
All anarchists are post-left anarchists on this blessed day. UwU
(I'm not actually super familiar with post-left anarchism, plz don't take this seriously)
What's a Kulak, exactly?
So, the closest thing they had to a middle class. Business owners and successful farmers.
Yikes.
Not even that successful.
The average value of the goods which were confiscated from the kulaks during the policy of dekulakization (раскулачивание) at the beginning of the 1930s was only 170–400 rubles (US$90–210) per household.
"A peasant family of 8 has about 200$ between them. Clearly this is the bourgeoisie Marx was warning us about."
This is something you still see today with the far left, r/newzealand has a few cookers like that. They rage against the middle class, while the billionaires screw us all.
So incredibly stupid and short-sighted.