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Tis a silly place (media.piefed.ca)
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[–] -4 points 1 year ago (8 children)

People designated .ml as a tankie instance for very good reason: the admins of .ml have repeatedly shown to be pro-authoritarian.

For years now I've seen incessant gaslighting from tankies pretending that "tankie" is some catch-all term baselessly thrown around like "woke". However, I've pretty much exclusively seen the term "tankie" used to describe people who support authoritarian regimes/dictatorships.

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  • [+] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    LOL. Your main instance — lemmy.blahaj.zone —has a blanket ban on all Marxist Leninists, regardless of whether they are “tankie” or not. That is the most authoritarian thing I have seen on Lemmy so far and it’s from a self-proclaimed anarchist instance. The hypocrisy is hilarious. Anarkiddies are so unserious.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Sure? But Blahaj isn't a country, it's a social media.

    I'm free to register on multiple instances at once. If I ever became displeased with Blahaj's admins, I could very easily go elsewhere.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Why are you talking about countries? This thread is about social media.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    My apologies for the confusion.

    In my original comment, I was talking about the term "tankie", which is a term we're seeing used a lot on Lemmy (a social media) to refer to people who support authoritarian governments (of countries, such as Russia and China).

    In my reply to you, I meant to say that the effects of a Lemmy instance being "authoritarian" aren't at all as harmful to its users as an authoritarian country is to its residents, since it's easy to change instances but its not generally easy (and sometimes not reasonably possible) to change countries.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don't support authoritarian regimes, but I get called a tankie plenty by centrists who hate that I don't support the authoritarian regime that their wing of the party sold weapons to.

    "Tankie" is just something the genocide wing calls people who disagree with their only policy.

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