Comment on Is lemmy.ml turn into authoritarian?

bouh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• KaleDaddy@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Tankies wpuld literally support the reincarnation of hitler if he said “america bad” they worship genocidal dictators on the sole grounds they oppose America. They hold literally no leftists values. They just like authority

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  • bouh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thing is, I’ve never seen a tankie. I’ve already talked to many fascists here on lemmy though.

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    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Depends on what subs/instances you frequent. Since the reddit migration brought a lot of liberals and centrists to lemmy, many of the tankie types have been drowned out by sheer numbers and have retreated to hexbear and lemmygrad etc.

      However, there’s also a decent number of fasicsts and neocons who came from reddit and are all over exploding heads, shitjustworks etc

      I don’t really see those users much because I don’t frequent their spaces. I tend to be in more leftist spaces so I see more tankies.

      And of course there was that one disastrous week or so where we gave federation with hexbear a chance and they just flung tankie shit everywhere.

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      • bouh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Again, that’s anti-tankie memes I see every week. Not tankie ones. It’s the anti-tankies who are very active, not the tankies.

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• Zaktor@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In the US, antifa vs. fascists is the actual conflict bubbling up in real life. Only online do people care about tankies. They’re a test for moderation and decentralization so people can keep them from being disruptive, not a real concern for freedom of expression. Critical support for Russia’s invasion (or disruption of support for Ukraine) is way more likely to come from the alt-right fascists than pseudo-left online tankies.

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• mayo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s because we’re on .world and the main tankie instances are blocked. OP is talking about leaks into other instances. It’s a bad faith argument. Fuck tankies.

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• Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Tankies are more of a problem on Lemmy than fascists.

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  • bouh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I guess you’re half a fascist.

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    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      oh yeah? Well you’re a terrorist, so there, take that!

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• Aux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Tankies ARE fascists! Like all communists.

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  • uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So Trump is communist? Since when?

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    • Aux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Us VS them totalitarian mentality. Didn’t matter how you call these fucks, they all are the same.

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not all fascists are communist, but they say all communists are fascist

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      • good_girl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        What does this even mean LMFAO

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  • bouh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yet, but specifying this, you focus the discussion on the flaws of the left, rather than the actual fascists who are training, arming, and preparing coops in the western world, like they did in the US not so long ago.

    Yet here we are talking about how communists are also fascists…

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    • Aux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They ARE actual fascists, that’s the thing.

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• unnecessarygoat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  it’s probably because most instances have defederated with ‘tankie’ instances like lemmygrad or hexbear, so all you really see is ragebait screenshots of tankies saying stupid things. although most of these posts seem to be coming from one user

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  • bouh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The only posts I see about tankies are from anti-tankies.

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, like they say, because the tankie posts are blocked.

      Is it really that difficult to understand?

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      • bouh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The why is there so much anti-tankie propaganda? Like so much more than antifascist propaganda?

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• assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s mostly because pseudo intellectual “leftist” tankies are almost exclusively found online. There’s no real presence irl

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  • Ataraxia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    These aren’t leftists. They’re trolls.

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    • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Agreed.

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