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People designated .ml as a tankie instance for very good reason: the admins of .ml have repeatedly shown to be pro-authoritarian.
For years now I've seen incessant gaslighting from tankies pretending that "tankie" is some catch-all term baselessly thrown around like "woke". However, I've pretty much exclusively seen the term "tankie" used to describe people who support authoritarian regimes/dictatorships.
There was a few people calling dbzer0 a tankie instance, when it's an anarchist instance.
Yeah we're somehow Tankies for wanting democrats to try harder and saying we need to do more then vote.
An 'anarchist' instance which claims to oppose genocide, yet allows genocide denial if it's painted red, and where the admins deny UN verified sexual assault.
Fantastic.
Anything's possible when you make shit up kiddo
I don't support authoritarian regimes, but I get called a tankie plenty by centrists who hate that I don't support the authoritarian regime that their wing of the party sold weapons to.
"Tankie" is just something the genocide wing calls people who disagree with their only policy.
ah, then my impressions are biased, since I haven't heard that term outside of Lemmy.
There's pretty much only one person I know irl that calls themselves a "centrist".
Bedtimes are authoritarian, your parents are tyrannical
LOL. Your main instance — lemmy.blahaj.zone —has a blanket ban on all Marxist Leninists, regardless of whether they are “tankie” or not. That is the most authoritarian thing I have seen on Lemmy so far and it’s from a self-proclaimed anarchist instance. The hypocrisy is hilarious. Anarkiddies are so unserious.
Sure? But Blahaj isn't a country, it's a social media.
I'm free to register on multiple instances at once. If I ever became displeased with Blahaj's admins, I could very easily go elsewhere.
Why are you talking about countries? This thread is about social media.
My apologies for the confusion.
In my original comment, I was talking about the term "tankie", which is a term we're seeing used a lot on Lemmy (a social media) to refer to people who support authoritarian governments (of countries, such as Russia and China).
In my reply to you, I meant to say that the effects of a Lemmy instance being "authoritarian" aren't at all as harmful to its users as an authoritarian country is to its residents, since it's easy to change instances but its not generally easy (and sometimes not reasonably possible) to change countries.
.ml also isn't a country
By any leftist conception, capitalist nations are undeniably authoritarian, yet you never see self described "leftist" who praise welfare capitalist states like the Scandinavian countries getting called a tankie. Clearly the term is not "used to describe people who support authoritarian regimes/dictatorships".