• Roundcat@lemmy.world
    6·
    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.

        • idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          2 years ago

          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.

            • Protegee9850@lemmy.world
              4·
              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

            • potatisgris@lemmy.world
              41·
              2 years ago

              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.

            • KermitLeFrog@lemmy.world
              31·
              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.

            • weirdwallace75@lemmy.world
              2·
              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.mlEnglish
              21·
              2 years ago

              «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.

        • moss@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 years ago

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

    • KermitLeFrog@lemmy.world
      104·
      2 years ago

      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.

        • weirdwallace75@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 years ago

          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
            13·
            2 years ago

            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.

              • RedMarsRepublic@lemmy.world
                11·
                2 years ago

                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·
                  2 years ago

                  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.