It literally just said “theres more talk of tankies than there are tankies” and as you can see it wasnt a hot take.
This isn’t very cash money
It literally just said “theres more talk of tankies than there are tankies” and as you can see it wasnt a hot take.
This isn’t very cash money
My post was not whitewashing tankies, I don’t defend any human rights abuses and I disavow anyone who does.
Yeah that’s fine, I meant whitewashing as in denying that lemmy has a tankie problem. I don’t claim you are a tankie or anything like that.
It’s not clearly correct though, as tankies are unpopular, there is absolutely more talk about them (i.e. normal people who like human rights) than there are tankies
100% with you on this one. For every tankie on lemmy there are like 5 to 10 people bitching about tankies. There are entire unhinged communities dedicated to it even.
That’s crazy I wonder why so many people dislike them /s
I’m sorry but there are plenty of tankies on lemmy. I don’t frequent .world much, and I assume there aren’t a lot there, but more leftist parts of lemmy unfortunately have a very real problem with tankies.
That’s not what I said
My guy, the instance run by Lemmy’s lead dev is explicitly a marxist leninist instance, and that pretty much just means they tolerate and encourage tankies. There’s more than one community on other instances recording all of the people who have been banned from the instance for daring to call it out. I believe the lead dev also runs the Lemmygrad instance, which is explicitly tankie. Hexbear is very tankie as well, and used to brigade frequently (they’ve finally started to calm down recently).
And those are only the “surface level” tankie instances that are well known and haven’t been blanket defederated by everyone.
This reads like tankie “red scare” tactics. Fuck tankies, I like my personal rights and freedoms to say so, and I’ll do it often.