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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A few years ago, the Lemmy Developers decided to keep their political views on lemmygrad while keeping lemmy.ml more neutral. Now they are banning users who are critical of their actions and bigotry.

Anti-Tankie posts may put you at risk of being banned from commenting and posting on the lemmy.ml instance.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hey internet, can we just not go fash or tankie for like 5 minutes? kthxbye

[–] alokir 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Either that or they're the mouthpiece of some corpo or political party. What happened to normal online discussions?

[–] Agent641 5 points 1 year ago

Hows your day going?

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