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[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 year ago

Gotta ask for both a source and your definition of a "tankie".

You keep using that word, I don't think it means what you think it means.

[-] sp6@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago

A tankie is someone who supports authoritarian communism (I believe the term originated from using tanks to suppress protests)

Here's a post showing that the main instance of Lemmy (hosted by the main 2 Lemmy devs) removes any negative posts about the Chinese or Russian governments for "orientalism": https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com/post/5784

In the comments of that post, you can find one of the devs borderline defending what China is doing to the Uyghurs: https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com/comment/5950

That same dev has a github repo called "essays on communism": https://github.com/dessalines/essays

I'm pretty sure both of the devs' profile pictures are Fidel Castro too

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 year ago

Aight fair enough, that's pretty concerning.

Nothing wrong per se with communism itself, it just tends to be extremely unstable and quickly turns to authoritarianism, I don't think it's ever worked for any nation in history so far.

The defending of Uyghur genocides, and the defending of the CCP and Russian government is really concerning though. Good thing this platform is federated.

libretro has a similar problem, it's developed by a team of transphobic, homophobic, racist Russian apologists who border on Nazism. I don't know what attracts these people to FOSS development.

[-] ciko22i3@sopuli.xyz 34 points 1 year ago

Fuck authoritarian commies. Better?

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