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I have seen my fair share of tankies here, so there definitely is a presence of them here. But I also do think a lot of the complaints come from people who assume any leftist user or post is also a "tankie."
Like I do see a lot of leftist memes posted to [email protected], which might be where a lot of the complaints are coming from. Likewise there has been a lot of drama with hexbear federating with a lot of communities that were previously shielded from them.
I'm talking about hexbear as tankie specifically. I haven't really seen any reasonable leftists on that instance. They use lib as an insult to give an idea.
So the instance that has anarchists and syndicalists on it (as well as, MLists, MSMists, and Stalinists, and more) are all tankies?
I only came across tankies. I couldn't find anyone in the few days we were federated who would condemn Russia's invasion or China's treatment of the Uyghurs. Maybe they're on there, but I didn't find any.
I think a lot of people don't realize that the .ml in lemmygrad.ml and lemmy.ml stands for "Marxist Leninist". They actually ARE Communist instances so their anti-capitalist stuff is perfectly fine in their instances and communities. If you don't want to see their stuff then block it, otherwise some of us occasionally find it funny and / or thought provoking.
(this was a joke, ml stands for ~~malaysia~~ Mali).
Mali.
Thanks. I knew it was one of those countries with M and L in the name, in that order.
I've never seen them be "thought provoking", which is what I would have expected. Instead they just whine about "libs" and recommended you go read some novel from 1890 while giving exactly zero reason for you to be interested.
I'm interested in hearing different points of view. Hexbear wasn't that. It was 2015 r/the_donald style propaganda.
I'm actually surprised at how devoid of substance they were. I expected more.
It's nice that the "all" list has vastly improved in quality in a day.
That's a pretty lib response imo.