The Democratic People's™ Republic of Tankiejerk

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Dunking on Tankies from a leftist, anti-capitalist perspective.

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Be civil and no bigotry of any kind.
No tankies or right-wingers. Liberals are allowed so long as they are aware of this
No genocide denial

We allow posts about tankie behavior even off fedi, shitposts, and rational, leftist discussion. For a more general community [email protected] is recommended.

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Joined from Reddit on the likelihood that I lose my account. (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/tankiejerk

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Sup? Joined the Lemmy version as insurance in case Reddit decides to can my account (which they most likely will at this rate).

Hope this site gets easier to navigate

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[–] cm0002 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Welcome! Just FYI, since you're here straight away I assume you already know of Tankies LMAO

So around here they're mostly found on the "Tankie Triad"; instances consisting of Lemmy.ml, Hexbear and lemmygrad

Hex and Grad are very in your face about it, but .ml tends to be more subtle. So, many instances defed (Meaning the admins of the instance you're on has decided to "block" (or really just not accept posts/comments/voting from an instance (like email, federation is more of an outbound kinda thing)) from those 2.

.ml is one of the original instances and run by the head Lemmy devs who are, unfortunately, Tankies themselves and tend to enforce the Tankie mindset throughout more subtlety IMO through mod action. Some of the largest comms are here as a result, but in recent years has really dropped off in activity in MAUs.

Because of that, and a lot of the lemmy support forums being on .ml, they tend to get handled with "kid gloves" more or less by most instances

If you want to have a fun kick off challenge you can always see how fast you can get a site ban from .ml and then I can give you this achievement unlock:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How come tankies are so influential on the internet and so irrelevant outside of it? lol

[–] PugJesus 2 points 2 days ago

Same essential reason as flat earthers and religious evangelists of minor cults. It's extremely appealing to some people to think they've discovered some 'hidden' knowledge or way that they can Enlighten The Masses(tm) with. The internet just disproportionately weights the contributions of the repetitive, dedicated, and aggressively conformist.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago

Perhaps bevause the proletariat are more free to speak on the internet than in capitalist media and workplaces