Tankiejerk

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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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The Lemmy Developers are now personally blocking and banning users and communities critical of Tankies and the Developers. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/tankiejerk

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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] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Seeing some of the stuff that's made it to the front from Hexbear about the Israel situation makes me wonder if people are going to run the risk of promotion of proscribed terrorist groups by hosing federated content from them.

[–] mkwt 1 points 10 months ago

In the US there's a list terrorist organisations that Hama's could very well be on. (I'm not up to date on this). And it is, or at least was, illegal to provide material support to those organisations.

In any case it would be very hard to make such a charge stick in the US if all you have is internet postings, no overt acts, and no money changing hands. First amendment and all.