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How it feels to scroll Lemmy as an Eastern European (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/tankiejerk@piefed.social
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[–] 17 points 8 months ago (34 children)

How do you define tankie? Here it normally means left of OP

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  • [–] 52 points 8 months ago* (20 children)

    Generally it's someone who glorifies authoritarian regimes like China and Russia despite their obvious issues with human rights

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    The number of memes and comments I see complaining about Tankies massively outnumber the posts I see that "glorify authoritarian regimes".

    What I do see a lot is spurious accusations of being a tankie over pretty much anything short of full-throated support of Team Neoliberalism.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    A lot of people talking about it likely have older accounts who have been here since the beginning when it was on fuller display. Plenty of defederation has happened since then and people are handling the issue in their own way I guess.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Could be. Though I notice OP is a 3-day-old account, not sure what to make of that.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Some people make alts whenever they complain about tankies because of the tendency of tankies to send abuse their way.

    Me, I just block and ban. But I understand not everyone wants the stress of randos in their inbox.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Might have something to do with your instance being defederated from some of their largest instances.

    But yes you're right about spurious accusations. There are reactionaries no matter where we are. But the other commenter was right too, it used to be much worse.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (11 children)

    You see. That is what I don't like. The word generally. A tankie is boogie man and a slur.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    Okay TurboTankie.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    Okay Neolib

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    Anarchist. How's the authleft boot taste?

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Pretty good actually. Once you go outside and actually try to organize you will quickly realize that most of those so called tankies are human beings that you can talk with and that leftist movements are way too small for it to be a good idea to split up in groups that fight each other instead of the common enemy.

    There are some people and organizations on the left that I dislike but that is mostly because their structure facilitates concealment of abuse in their own ranks. I don't have anything against them from a broader political perspective.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    The common enemy includes places like China or Russia that lock up LGBT people and make their lives miserable. I don't ally myself with people who defend those countries, why do you?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (3 children)

    Again, I have met almost no actual leftists that support Russia. Those are a strawman and maybe a tiny fringe group on the net. One thing I've seen is that most leftists show their solidarity to the population of those countries which may get misconstrued by bad actors as solidarity to the countries themselves. Why do you ally yourself to people who call russians subhumans?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (2 children)

    Have you never interacted with the triad? They routinely express support for Russia and China because β€œthey fight against nato/us imperialism”.

    And I don’t, I ally myself with anarchists. You can talk all the shit you want about people calling Russians subhuman, I won’t defend them or lose any sleep over it.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago*

    No the buck stops at supporting organizations that commit crimes against humanity. You simply cannot maintain moral consistency by claiming you hate the U.S. only to turn around and simp for Russia and China.

    I don't care if tankies are human beings, much in the same way that I don't care that nazis are human beings. Zero tolerance for extremists, which tankies absolutely are.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Well surely that's not the people who invented slave trade, blood diamonds and genocide. Nor banana republics, usurious interest, and the nuclear bombs, resident schools, workhouse, and exporting food crops so that the farmers starve, below subsistence wages, bond slaves, defense industries...

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  • [–] 41 points 8 months ago (11 children)

    How do you feel about the Russia-Ukraine war?

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  • [–] 27 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    russia is fighting an anti Imperial/anti capitalist war in order to save those stupid Ukrainians from themselves. That's why you should allow them to kill as many Ukrainians as possible and restore Soviet Union, where you'll be able to buy tank shaped strollers for babies. It makes perfect sense, only stupid westoid American puppets don't understand this flawless logic.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (5 children)

    Why?

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