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literally the reason I joined this instance bc i knew it would be safe from all the damn tankies lmao
Same. I was looking for alternatives to the R word and I saw lemmy and was interested, until I saw the “.ml” and immediately heard the amungus noise.
I was very happy to see this here. While I’m still working on blocking all the ml and genzdong communities I see in all, it’s already a lot better than I expected going into it.
Omg, I’m so dumb. I never even realized that the ML meant “Marxism-Leninism” i.e. tankieism.
It’s also a free TLD. Or at least it was before Freenom kinda fucked up and stopped registering new domains.
I think lemmy.ml is actually paying to make sure they keep it but I dunno.
noooo you dont understand when people doing fascism wear red it doesnt count!1!11 also they dont even have to wear red lol russia based (but also we hate it cuz it destoyed the kawaii soviet union)
noooooo if you criticize my regime and don’t let them do a wittle genocide (uwu) you’re the fascist and anticommunist !!!1!
I might be out of the loop - was there something that happened recently?
at the time of writing, this: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/104902 is the top post of 196, and the comments are fucking infested with tankies, it’s kinda scary
edit: was infested with tankies! i mean there’s still a lot of garbage there but luckily the mods stepped in, thanks y’all, we see u <3
Ah that makes sense. Didn’t know that thread got that bad.
People who say left unity is a possibility are as dumb as a box of stumps. It’s always interesting going to a tankie place and seeing people with lgbt flair talk up Putin, as if they wouldn’t be shot on sight.
I can’t understand the queer tankies. Like, do they believe that an explicitly authoritarian regime would suddenly have no need for a maginalized minority to target? Do they believe that they will somehow become the minorty group in power and will be able to target other groups? Or is just like lgbt cons who hope to be “One of the good ones”?
Tankies are almost exclusively western white people who have never in their life experienced living under an authoritarian communist regime. This includes queer tankies.
It’s the same “pick-me” behavior we see with Blaire White and Candace Owens. They either truly think they will be seen as one of the good ones, or they don’t care and just want the power and money that comes with being the token.
Left unity is fine. Tankies are leftists in name only.
Could you please define leftism and tankies, I’m very interested. Right now it sounds like people are getting called tankies (and getting banned) just for seeing some good things in actual socialist societies.
“Actual socialist societies” - which ones I wonder?
Also I like the wordplay of “seeing some good things…”. If someone replies to a post expressing grievance about the holocaust with “but guys hitler provided good childcare benefits” (made up exmp), are they “just seeing some good things”?
Context matters a bunch and most of the time people saying stuff like that and what you said want to talk about the semantic accuracy of their statement and ignore its context (and the reason they made it), to cry about how they’re being censored for a ‘technically accurate’ statement.
Literally the same rhetoric the “IDW” uses to appeal to the less intelligent of kids. It’d be embarrassing if it’d worked on you.
