are they even in this 196
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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There's another 196 over on [email protected]
Most people use the Blahaj.zone one so this place isn't very active.
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lefty anti-capitalist spaces tend to attract them in general
Looking at a few of the comments, yes.
Not in this one they're all on the tankie instance
well it sounds like the tankie instance needs blocked then. What instance is that btw?
The instance is called lemmygrad.ml and already blocked by most of the other instances. You can see blocked instances if you scroll down the page and click on the Instances button.
Their 196 is called moretankie196.
lemmy.ml is also pretty tankies friendly. Lemmy.world is the only instance I'm using regularly although suggestions of other good ones are welcome
It’s over run with them. We need a world news community on Lemmy.World and calls to defederate the .ml instance
What's a 196? What's a tankie?
196 is the subreddit that this community is based on. The only official rules are that you must post before you leave and you can't be a bigot. It ends up basically like r/shitposting, except aggressively pro-LGBTQ instead of anti.
A tankie is a leftist who thinks that Mao, Stalin, and Castro were cool.
A 196 is a meme sharing forum with the name 196. I don't really know how to describe a tankie, but something like: a leftist person who glorifies autocracy and the use of force to make a leftist utopia.
Thanks. I guess that I am grateful that I don't know about either of those things.
A Utopia which viciously guards its borders to keep people from leaving.
But if you force people in, it's a prison, not a utopia...
Originally, tankies were Western Leftists who defended the USSR when it used literal tanks to crush popular revolutions in Czechoslovakia and Hungary.
«tankie» is a term used to describe communists who support or are critically supportive of so-called "authoritarian regimes" (AES (actual existing socialism) such as Cuba, the USSR, China, Vietnam, the DPRK, Laos, etc.) or their actions.
The guy driving the tank rather than standing in front of it.
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Liberals when talking about human rights: :) Liberals when talking about the enforcement of human rights: :(
Tankies ≠ leftists ≠ liberals
Plenty of leftists want human rights and even know we'll need a revolution to get them, but the USSR and CCP were not ever communist, they were authoritarian oligarchies disguised as communism. The same way the US is not a democracy or a republic, it's an authoritarian oligarchy disguised as one.
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Just a reminder that you can be critical of the US, NATO and other capitalist entities without sucking China's and Russia's cock, or romanticizing the USSR's or Warsaw block's legacy.
Frankly I don't see the difference between a fascist or a tankie if either are in favor of oppressing innocent people and restricting human rights.
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