The term Tankie has a clear definition that Cowbee likes to ignore:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.
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I filtered out .ml.
I just got so sick of the constant pro-China bullshit, and their disingenuous arguments
They are a disinformation cesspool and don’t hesitate to brigade.
Cowbee was the first username I learned to recognize. This shit is either his job, or there are multiple people running it, or even both.
My Lemmy experience has been a lot better since filtering .ml.