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[–] RedMarsRepublic@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Liberals when talking about human rights: :) Liberals when talking about the enforcement of human rights: :(

[–] KermitLeFrog@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Tankies ≠ leftists ≠ liberals

Plenty of leftists want human rights and even know we'll need a revolution to get them, but the USSR and CCP were not ever communist, they were authoritarian oligarchies disguised as communism. The same way the US is not a democracy or a republic, it's an authoritarian oligarchy disguised as one.

[–] RedMarsRepublic@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The USSR wasn't perfect (and Stalin ruined most things that were good obviously) but they weren't any worse than the USA or the west.

[–] KermitLeFrog@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Your reading comprehension really is something to behold. You basically just disagreed with me by saying exactly the same thing I just fucking said.

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[–] Amiral_Poitou@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Tankies ≠ Liberals, though

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[–] weirdwallace75@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm a Liberal through and through and I'm all in favor of enforcing human rights.

[–] RedMarsRepublic@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's great, but liberalism as an ideology in the real world is pathetically weak on the right.

[–] weirdwallace75@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yeah, the Liberals only destroyed the Nazis and Imperial Japan in WWII, saving the USSR in the process.

Not to mention jailing far right nutballs whenever they step out of line.

Much worse than running gulags for anarchists. /s

[–] RedMarsRepublic@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The USSR did 90% of the work in beating the Nazis though. As for jailing the far right, it sure doesn't look like it, just look how many of them are running around encouraging stochastic terrorism against the LGBT community.

[–] weirdwallace75@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The USSR only fought the Nazis, and then only after allying with them.

[–] RedMarsRepublic@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The west also did a ton of non-aggression pacts and friendship pacts with the Nazis. Also; Poland was fascist at the time too.

[–] weirdwallace75@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Poland was not in a good place politically, but it wasn't Fascist, and the USSR didn't just make a friendship pact with the Nazis, it went to war alongside them. Stalin was an opportunist who made a dumb decision, not a principled anti-Fascist.

[–] RedMarsRepublic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1849240

Poland also did the exact same thing as the USSR did when it allied with Nazi Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia. I don't deny that Stalin was an opportunist but nonetheless, despite its failures it was the USSR which did the lion's share of warfare against the Nazis and ended the holocaust. As for not taking part against Japan, they did invade Manchuria and would have turned their attention on the rest of Japan had they not surrendered to the USA (indeed the USSR entering the war against them was the biggest reason why they surrendered).

[–] weirdwallace75@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

(indeed the USSR entering the war against them was the biggest reason why they surrendered).

No, it wasn't. This is straight-up Soviet propaganda.

[–] Roundcat@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Just a reminder that you can be critical of the US, NATO and other capitalist entities without sucking China's and Russia's cock, or romanticizing the USSR's or Warsaw block's legacy.

Frankly I don't see the difference between a fascist or a tankie if either are in favor of oppressing innocent people and restricting human rights.

[–] ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] Scurvotron@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 years ago

Looking at a few of the comments, yes.

[–] dsmaster7173@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

lefty anti-capitalist spaces tend to attract them in general

[–] moss@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not in this one they're all on the tankie instance

[–] ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

well it sounds like the tankie instance needs blocked then. What instance is that btw?

[–] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The instance is called lemmygrad.ml and already blocked by most of the other instances. You can see blocked instances if you scroll down the page and click on the Instances button.

Their 196 is called moretankie196.

[–] KermitLeFrog@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

lemmy.ml is also pretty tankies friendly. Lemmy.world is the only instance I'm using regularly although suggestions of other good ones are welcome

[–] Protegee9850@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

It’s over run with them. We need a world news community on Lemmy.World and calls to defederate the .ml instance

[–] knaak@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

What's a 196? What's a tankie?

[–] weirdwallace75@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Originally, tankies were Western Leftists who defended the USSR when it used literal tanks to crush popular revolutions in Czechoslovakia and Hungary.

[–] Faresh@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

«tankie» is a term used to describe communists who support or are critically supportive of so-called "authoritarian regimes" (AES (actual existing socialism) such as Cuba, the USSR, China, Vietnam, the DPRK, Laos, etc.) or their actions.

[–] knaak@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

The guy driving the tank rather than standing in front of it.

[–] potatisgris@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

A 196 is a meme sharing forum with the name 196. I don't really know how to describe a tankie, but something like: a leftist person who glorifies autocracy and the use of force to make a leftist utopia.

[–] weirdwallace75@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

A Utopia which viciously guards its borders to keep people from leaving.

[–] Hylirica@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

But if you force people in, it's a prison, not a utopia...

[–] knaak@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks. I guess that I am grateful that I don't know about either of those things.

[–] KermitLeFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

196 is the subreddit that this community is based on. The only official rules are that you must post before you leave and you can't be a bigot. It ends up basically like r/shitposting, except aggressively pro-LGBTQ instead of anti.

A tankie is a leftist who thinks that Mao, Stalin, and Castro were cool.

[–] moss@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

The community is called moretankie196 and I'm not sure what the server is exactly called

[–] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have come to one nine five, I'm the spooky tankie that is in the room with you right now oooooooooooh! 👻👻👻 I'm the spectre of communism! 👻👻👻

Be sure to check your walls!

[–] dsmaster7173@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Wait a fucking moment, this post is 23d old. Lmao, sorting by hot moment.

[–] 1ipod@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

196 doesn't really seem to be very tankie filled

[–] Dubois_arache@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Ok, I am out of this individualistic and reactionary group.

[–] GhostedIC@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I will strive to embody these adjectives.

[–] poopscoop@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Dubois_arache@lemmy.blahaj.zone -2 points 2 years ago

Thank you rat

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