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Criticizing Marxists on a community that is federated with the largest Marxist-aligned instances will indeed result in a struggle session.
this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2025
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Are anti-genocide "tankies" really the biggest threat to democracy right now?
Fascists and Nazis are in the white house destroying the US. They are also on the verge of taking over and destroying Europe.
Everyone to the left of fascism needs to unite together to stop the neo-Nazis before it is too late. If the Nazis are allowed to start ww3 then nukes will end us all.
Yeah right now, I don't care about tankies all that much. Are they annoying at times? Fuck yes. Are they a threat to my life? Fuck no.
I don't mind moderating content online, but its fucking weird people are more pressed about Tankies online, spending more time about them than Trump. At least memes can maybe sway someone about the terminally online, it doesn't stop Trump when someone shares a meme.
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it's so fucking true
Anytime they pull you into an argument, suddenly 5 more show up to try and overwhelm you. There's no way it isn't a deliberate tactic.
I had three at once ask me why no one was defending me. I just said i didn't need anyone to brigade for me. They didn't seem to like that answer lol
That is a tactic they learned from real life tanks. Argue with one tank, more tanks show up.
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The three notifications in my inbox before this one were .mls misreading my comment.
That was Hexbear's modus operandi when they federated with other instances to "dunk" on people. Seeing as many HB users have .ml accounts to bypass defederation, it's no surprise they keep up that behaviour on .ml. I've seen numerous threads where the vote count suddenly plummets right when a bunch of tankies show up at once to yell at whoever they consider a shitlib. Which is everyone who isn't authoritarian.
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i mean, you guys are constantly making entire threads about how you hate either our moderation rules, or our opinions...
Virtually every ban and removed comment found in the mod log from an .ml community gets a dedicated thread these days.
It has everything to do with how demanding to see the manager/admin/dev doesn't auto-bypass moderation policies. Works on centralized social media where the owners and their employees get flummoxed over potential ad revenue.
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If you make them look bad they delete the thread. It's happened to me twice. I consider it a win, but it is sad that others won't see how wacky they are.
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Locking as people have reached the point where they're just insulting each other/telling each other to kill themselves.
Ok, what’s a tankie?
Originally, it meant people who supported the soviet union's use of tanks to crush uprisings.
Now its used to describe people who support Authoritatian Communist regimes, like the ussr, north korea or china.
On lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml there is a high amount of them.
Somehow they even support modern russia which is as far from communism as it's possible to be without being US
I think the best evidence that "tankie" is a meaningless snarl word is the way the people who use it just make up what ever positions they like to ascribe to the mythical "tankie". Like, none of the people you call "tankies" support modern Russia, but you're going to insist that tankies support modern Russia anyway, because it's not meant to an actual descriptive word, just a way to punch left.
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Their reasoning is that its anti-us imperialism, despite russia being pretty imperialistic itself.
That's such an oversimplifcation that it can just be dismissed as wrong. Here is someone who actually asked and didn't just assume
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I really haven't seen that? A while ago I looked into HexBear's opinion on it and it wasn't good.
Check out this thread, there really isn’t any Putin worship in these spaces.
https://hexbear.net/post/148426?scrollToComments=false
In this one some of the top comments are hoping Putin gets shot in the face. https://hexbear.net/post/3270551
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Originally, it meant people who supported the soviet union's use of tanks to crush uprisings.
And with the recent JFK declassified documents:
...it turns out the soviets were right to crush the Hungarian color revolution lmao
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It's an updated version of "commie", means the same thing, but for people who don't want to sound like cold war boomers.
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