Comment on Hexbear federation megathread
Jaded@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months agoThe part where he uses the word tankie every sentence and bans anyone from that instance arbitrarily.
Tankie is the new derogatory word for any socialist/communist. Yes I know what it actually means but clearly not every member of hexbear is a Stalin apologist and most of them aren’t shit posters. Yet here we are, with certain users so scared of the red they block users on sight regardless of what they are saying.
If you used an app that doesn’t show you what instance people belong too, you wouldn’t be able to tell them from other users.
lukini@beehaw.org 10 months ago
When I say tankie, I’m referring to the people toeing the party line of the CCP and Putin. That isn’t communism; that’s a specific breed of “communism” that’s mostly capitalism surrounding cults of personality.
If half the people I saw from hexbear weren’t spamming their huge emotes every other comment, I might be inclined to agree. If they weren’t the only people in threads (besides lemmygrad) supporting authoritarian regimes, I might be inclined to agree. Sadly, both of those happen often in my experience.
You’re free to disagree with me on the comments I just made, that’s what’s great about discussions online, but hexbear members are very confrontational, to a trollish degree, in how they discuss these topics from what I’ve seen. It doesn’t need to be “every member” of hexbear as you say. It just has to be a big enough problem that the mods and users want it gone. That is happening fairly often recently based on the posts showing up when I browse lemmy. Hell, that’s how I ended up here.