this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2023
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Dunking on Tankies from a leftist perspective.
A tankie is someone who defends/supports authoritarian or even totalitarian regimes who call themselves "socialist". The term originated from people supporting the 1956 invasion of Hungary by the Soviet Union. Nowadays they are just terminally online, denying genocides, and falling for totalitarian propaganda and calling such regimes "true democracies". remember to censor usernames when necessary.
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I don't think it's worth it to most people, and I'd be embarrassed for someone to find out I use Lemmy in case they checked it out.
The authoritarian propaganda is killing Lemmy.
I actually told a friend I use Lemmy because we used to talk about Reddit together, they instantly replied with "ew". I immediately dropped the subject, but my first and only thought was if they ever checked it out they probably saw some hexbear stuff right away and figured the whole thing was trash.
Hexbear is the worst, but it's far from the only problem. It's bad on here. I've calmly pointed out this is a biased echochamber several times and I just get downvoted.