Pretty sure it's just an attempt to normalize their talking points by worming them into discussions. Spreading to different instances is a reaction to grad and hex being largely defederated and ml names being a huge red flag for a bunch of people. I think the reality is that even if everyone defederates every tankie instance, they'll keep creeping in through different instances. I don't see a solution beyond simply keeping an eye out and tagging/moderating individuals as they pop up.

Funnily enough, for all of the prominent Tankie talk about not wanting to be an echo chamber and welcoming debate, .ml actually has this comm instance-blocked LMAO

Idk where here is referring, but memes is all tankies.

I've honestly never seen a conservative on Lemmy. But then again I don't tend to browse much of the fediverse as it's all yankslop

Indeed as an Anarchist, tankies and maga conservatives are the mirror of each other, it's just who holds the hammer and gun that differs.

asians are pretty hardcore conservatives, at least for the older generation. vietnam, china,,,etc. thats why you seem them "rallying" with right/white supremacists quite often, also older millennials(35+) tend to gear towards conservatism more than progressivism/left leaning ideology. Or at the most they support some left leaning, but does not like things gay marriage,weed,drugs,,,,etc. i know people that are this way. also notice asians that have at least some religious upbringing, either christianity or buddhism(funny enough) and left the religion partially, but became more right wing when trump came around. i knew someone early in college that was a vietnamese immigrant, he was very PRO-BUSH,war. and yes i am asians.

I've found it very curious how Tankies will apply a coat of liberal paint to authoritarian states like China, Iran and Russia. They don't realise that diversity and the freedom of self-expression they so love are all largely suppressed in these states.

very much a chickens for KFC scenario.

Think it was deleted, but it was the guy checking out another girl meme and the one with him I wrote "my 4080 RTX gaming rig" and the one he's looking at was "my Steam Deck" I posted with a filler title of "rice" because it's a required field and that's what swipe spit out.

It was considered racist to use the word rice.

Yes, and he uses slave labor for them as well

And India and Iran, all BRICS countries. You can follow via the crypto tickers sometimes, as crypto is intrinsically tied to these bot (human slave) farms - it's their funding.

i wouldn't call them horrors per se.

I would call raping, torturing and destroying cultures of the occupied countries quite horrible, no? gtfo with this bullshit my dude.

Anyone my age range or older would have no excuse for not knowing what kind of monster Stalin was. Anyone who has spoken to survivors who escaped his regime would never have the fucking audacity.

By comparison, Pol Pot was responsible for the killing fields in Cambodia. His murder spree is just a rounding error in Stalin's body of work.

it's very much a us-centrism position that most people from the US, meaning tankies, see Stalin. They don't care for the Holodomor, most have never heard of it.

Triple that.

and how many of those were invading nazis?

Stop trying to put lipstick on a pig.

"Don't believe the victims!"

Isn't the part of a winning charm offensive.

Any quibbling you attempt in an effort to massage the numbers just dies, when you consider that the numbers you want to fiddle with are in the fucking millions.

About 1 to 2 million. 1.1 million soldiers dead on Nazi Germany's eastern front, plus some 1 million "MIA + POW", of which some amount might be dead as well?

Why was this important for you to know?