Comment on It's been a while, which Lemmy instances should I be on?

• Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nah, you’re a tankie.

  You can easily find Anarchists on PieFed either on Quokk.au or Anarchist.Nexus though for anyone who wants to join us.

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  • dickalan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why is that supposed to be an insult, I know nothing of tankie But was called one a couple days ago

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    • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Tankies are people who supported the use of tanks to attack the civilian protests against the USSR in Hungary and later Czechoslovakia. That became the default term for anyone who supports brutal authoritarian states that suppress the people to assert their control. In modern day context a tankie would be someone who blames Ukraine for being invaded and denies the genocide of the Uyghurs.

      Some rightwing/centrists like to use it to insult any leftist. You can just ignore those ones.

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      • dickalan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I appreciate you for taking the time to explain this to me, mostly sounds like a term people used to other other people

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      • davel@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Tankies are people who supported the use of tanks to attack the civilian protests against the USSR in Hungary and later Czechoslovakia.

        • JFK Files Reveal CIA Role in the 1956 Hungarian Uprising The tankies were right
        • The 1968 Prague Spring — Counterrevolution as the “Trojan Horse” of Imperialism
        • The blueprint of regime change operations - How regime change happens in the 21st century with your consent

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      • kariboka@mastodon.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        @Deceptichum @dickalan so the fucking UN is tankie? Lol

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  • Diva@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    name calling is pretty rude, believe it or not it’s possible to be an anarchist and not use one of your instances. for me I find anarchists in my day to day organizing, separate from the internet

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• davel@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Were they hard-line demsocs, or were they really just “progressive” liberals?

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  • Diva@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m probably being too generous, but they do tend to identify as that

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    • Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The bots are talking to themselves, oh no

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      • Diva@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Not everyone opposed to trans people being in sports is a bigot.

        Yep, I’m a bigot because I don’t want people taking steroids in sports.

        -Jax@sh.itjust.works

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• Skavau@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s partially true, but not all true at all. Piefed development is way faster currently than Lemmy.

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• Fugit@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Personally, communists don’t bother me. Transphobic developers, however, don’t make me want to use their software.

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