Yeah I agree. The apologia for Russia, China and just communism in general (or what ever you want to call it) fucks with your mind a bit. If Lemmy is the only social media you use it quickly starts to seem like this kind of thinking is far more common than what it really is and it can make one question their own sanity when reasonable sounding critizism of this is met with huge flood of downvotes. Especially if the discussion is happening on a place like lemmy.ml. As an outside observer I find it interesting as I haven’t really met people like this before but trying to engage with them is one of the most frustrating things I’ve experienced especially since a mod is going to ban you mid-discussion for “misinformation and bigotry” or something similar while it’s clear to everyone it’s just CCP level cencorship to silence all dissidence.
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crackajack@reddthat.com 5 months agoI’d say a left-wing activist type
Which is cringe inducing. There are more tankies here than in other Internet forums. I’d be rich for penny I get for meeting tankies in Lemmy. They call out American imperialism, but then simp for Russia and China. Two wrongs don’t make a right and they expect to have one but not the other. Though, I wouldn’t be surprised if Russian bots have also infiltrated Lemmy to sow disinformation.
whose into tech
Doesn’t sound different from the early days of Reddit.
Critical_Insight@feddit.uk 5 months ago
crackajack@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Yeah, some instances turned to be haven for these tankies. It took me a while before I realised that lemmy.ml is pretty much run by them.
seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
I see more people complaining about tankies on a regular basis than actual tankies
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Americans are pretty right leaning. So anything leftish is unfamiliar. I think tankie has become an all encompassing term for anything left of “normal”, or unfamiliar.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Ehh once you see it you can spot the Tankie arguments pretty fast. Usually it starts as some sort of nitpick or factual correction regarding Russia, China, or another country in their sphere of influence, then some overarching opinion that sounds okay on the surface but the moment you put more than a few seconds of thought in you realize its wrong, sprinkle in some vague and slightly conspiratorial-sounding references to not falling for propaganda, then usually it devolves into pointing out something bad the US has done as a false equivalency while conveniently avoiding the finer points on why it’s a false equivalency. Oh and they never mention the Nazis because their arguments so frequently are perfect arguments to also defend the Nazis, but they at least know it’s a bad look to align with Nazis.
Personally I will call out racism/apologism/transphobia with a 2 reply limit then block, because I do not want that to be normalized, but also people posting such comments tend to be trolls who enjoy arguing in bad faith. I did also block the entire hexbear instance on my account (it’s an option the settings now!) because that’s not just random redfacists but an echo chamber for redfacists to continuously reinforce their beliefs.
0ops@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Is your defederated from hexbear and lemmy grad? They’re all pretty concentrated there