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.ml is not a “tankie instance”. The admins are Marxist-Leninists, so they fit some definitions of tankie, but its just a technology instance for leftists.
Hexbear isn’t one either. A lot of their users are, but there are just as many who aren’t, such as anarchists (basically the opposite).
Only if you want your feed to be an echo chamber. In my opinion the best thing about the fediverse is that you can choose the rules and values you want to adhere to through your instance choice, without cutting off interaction with others unless you defederate their instances.
The frequent calls to blanket dismiss anyone on those instances are an unfortunate overreaction in my opinion.
Agreed. There are some tone deaf people from those instances who think their perspectives are the only true ones, but that’s true of any sufficiently large and unified group.
Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof. More specifically, the term has been applied to those who express support for one-party Marxist–Leninist socialist republics, whether contemporary or historical. It is commonly used by anti-authoritarian leftists, including anarchists, libertarian socialists, left communists, democratic socialists and reformists to criticise Leninism, although the term has seen increasing use by liberal and right‐wing factions as well.
The only time I’ve seen it be applied to anarchists is when Reddit libs don’t like anyone left of them doing stuff like protesting, but normally the Wikipedia definition is how I see the word used.
I didn’t say the definition was correct because Wikipedia says so, I said that’s how the word is normally defined, and the Wikipedia definition (which was the first thing that popped up) aligns with my experiences with how I’ve seen the word used. So when you say the word “tankie” includes anarchists, I’m wondering whose definition or what reasoning are you pulling from.
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.ml is not a “tankie instance”. The admins are Marxist-Leninists, so they fit some definitions of tankie, but its just a technology instance for leftists.
Hexbear isn’t one either. A lot of their users are, but there are just as many who aren’t, such as anarchists (basically the opposite).
Only if you want your feed to be an echo chamber. In my opinion the best thing about the fediverse is that you can choose the rules and values you want to adhere to through your instance choice, without cutting off interaction with others unless you defederate their instances.
The frequent calls to blanket dismiss anyone on those instances are an unfortunate overreaction in my opinion.
Agreed. There are some tone deaf people from those instances who think their perspectives are the only true ones, but that’s true of any sufficiently large and unified group.
I’ve seen a lot of anarchists on Hexbear, lemmygrad is explicitly ML though
Anarchists are absolutely considered tankies at this point.
Anarchists find it really hard to support despotic regimes even when they’re opposing the USA.
Lol, as opposed to those non-despotic “regimes” that you, an anarchist, believe in.
Get out of here, liberal.
uh no they’re not? Anarchists are about as anti-government as it gets
Edit: unless you mean liberals can’t tell the difference between different leftists
Uh, yes they are?
Tankie just means anyone to the left of the US Overton window.
Wikipedia
The only time I’ve seen it be applied to anarchists is when Reddit libs don’t like anyone left of them doing stuff like protesting, but normally the Wikipedia definition is how I see the word used.
Have shitlibs like you ever read anything other than Wikipedia? Serious question.
I didn’t say the definition was correct because Wikipedia says so, I said that’s how the word is normally defined, and the Wikipedia definition (which was the first thing that popped up) aligns with my experiences with how I’ve seen the word used. So when you say the word “tankie” includes anarchists, I’m wondering whose definition or what reasoning are you pulling from.
Seriously though, have shitlibs like you read anything other than Wikipedia?
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So people who don’t support modern Russia aren’t tankies? You’d better tell all the fucking shitlibs here that.
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