this post was submitted on 23 Jun 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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you must have been on either lemmy.ml or lemmygrad, because lemmy.world is quite normal.
Did lemmy.world exist then?
@Falmarri lemmy.world did not exist a few months ago if I recall correctly (or was too irelevant for me to notice it). It started taking off right after the Reddit migration.
The downvotes might be coming from lemmy.ml which lemmy.world federates with. But at least lemmy.world is blocking lemmygrad.
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yes, you must have just used the wrong instance. i did that as well, because i got my start on lemmy.ml, but i moved here when i learned who ran it.