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What was your First encounter with a tankie? (self.tankiejerk)

submitted 2 years ago by Zstom6IP to c/tankiejerk

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Mine happened when i first made a reddit account, i got banned from a subreddit with a tankie moderator because i questioned the logic of having lenin as the subreddits profile, for a subreddit devoted to anti conservative memes.

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[–] DarraignTheSane 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Zstom6IP 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] DarraignTheSane 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Zstom6IP 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

ML stands for marxism leninism, the predominent tankie ideology, all the admins are marxist leninists as well.

[–] DarraignTheSane 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Zstom6IP 3 points 2 years ago

luckily we arent on lemmy.ml.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

marxism-leninism lol