• Emotional (he/him)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    17 hours ago

    People designated .ml as a tankie instance for very good reason: the admins of .ml have repeatedly shown to be pro-authoritarian.

    For years now I’ve seen incessant gaslighting from tankies pretending that “tankie” is some catch-all term baselessly thrown around like “woke”. However, I’ve pretty much exclusively seen the term “tankie” used to describe people who support authoritarian regimes/dictatorships.

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      15 hours ago

      There was a few people calling dbzer0 a tankie instance, when it’s an anarchist instance.

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        6 hours ago

        An ‘anarchist’ instance which claims to oppose genocide, yet allows genocide denial if it’s painted red, and where the admins deny UN verified sexual assault.

        Fantastic.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      I don’t support authoritarian regimes, but I get called a tankie plenty by centrists who hate that I don’t support the authoritarian regime that their wing of the party sold weapons to.

      “Tankie” is just something the genocide wing calls people who disagree with their only policy.

      • Emotional (he/him)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        16 hours ago

        ah, then my impressions are biased, since I haven’t heard that term outside of Lemmy.

        There’s pretty much only one person I know irl that calls themselves a “centrist”.