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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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On lemmy.ml/c/worldnews, the second comment / chain of comments I ever made on Lemmy. I had no idea that there would be so many Putin supporters. I was downvoted to hell for saying that the war in Ukraine is Putin's war and it can end whenever he decides to get the fuck out.
same, i assumed lemmy.ml was normal, but NOPE, its fucking insane, though i should have assumed it would be from its name, i just never thought about what ml stood for.
Lemmy.ml is a stain on the fediverse. As much as Dessalines and Nutomic preach that "if you don't like our moderation policy you can start your own instance," lemmy.ml's dominant position means it's hard to realistically defederate and ignore, so by default their (unclear and tankie belief-based) moderation policy is effectively getting enforced no matter what.
I tried using the "block instance" feature kbin supposedly has, but it didn't work. On the upside, lemmy.world, kbin.social, and beehaw.org seem to be doing quite well.
Okay you've got me... what does it stand for? Hadn't given it any thought really, just thought it was a top-level domain that they picked at random.
ML stands for marxism leninism, the predominent tankie ideology, all the admins are marxist leninists as well.
I guess I never connected the dots there. I knew about the devs what with their profile pics and the lemmy.ml about/description, etc.
However, I think there's a world of difference between being a Marxist / Leninist and being a Putinist.
luckily we arent on lemmy.ml.
marxism-leninism lol