Extreme right want us to think that this is full of tankies to give the impression that they are a opressed minority, is in fact a nasty resource that they use when they see they are loosing a debate or simply the presence in a physic or virtual space.
"Progressive" Shitlibs when they allow bigots on their platform and Queer people dont like them
(Im pretty sure eveyone other than world users hate world)
.world has now moved onto banning people for calling out transphobia. It was bad when they banned users for calling out the Democrats' involvement with the genocide of Palestinians, but now they ban users for being "aggressive" with transphobes.
That's concerning... I don't follow instance drama, but if that's even half true I'll switch. Have a source that I can read?
Yea..... I am glad I have .world on my block list.
To be fair, sh.itjust.works' admin thinks Russia and China are pushing "gender ideology" to radicalize western youths against the US, and it's home to NCD and MWoG, 2 of the most right-wing communities on Lemmy.
What the actual fuck did I just read?
"I'm not a transphobe, but more people realising they're trans is a psyop by h o s t i l e g o v e r n m e n t s and trans people should sit quietly in the corner if they don't want to get hatecrimed."
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Just the standard affair for users of that comm, sadly.
I'm not "X" but, (insert the most vile thing people in group X usually say)
This is a stereotype that predates the internet.
Saying that the russians are the ones pushing "gender ideology" on the west is an absolutely senile opinion to hold. For years every russian news channel has been hollering that it's The West(TM) poisoning russian society with "LGBT propaganda". Did that guy really try to pull a "no u" on the entirety of russian state media?
.world user here. I also hate .world.
That's not really a thing neoliberals say...
They definitely complain about the tankies being a big part of the culture of Lemmy, and housing some of the biggest communities, but the statement in the comic isn't even remotely a thing neolibs or the .world demographic says
So this comic kinda just feels like a strange, confusing straw man...
You know it's gotten pretty bad when even the anarchist flag usernames are meming about how ridiculous the anti tankie attitude is.
True left unity is uniting against .world
I've been more people complaining about Tankies than anything actually based on what Tankies support. But I've seen plenty of shitlibs openly supporting for biogtry on .world
Aside from conservatives, does anyone think the world is controlled by marxists, tankie or otherwise?
The meme is about lemmy.world and American liberals are center-right conservatives so....
Basically my thoughts are, if you give slight pushback to American talking points you get called a tankie. It's kind of annoying.
I haven't been able to take the word "tankie" seriously in most cases since I asked that to someone on Reddit and they linked a meme praising anarchist Catalonia
the liberals got the world they fought so hard for when USSR was dissolved, against the will of the people, and they havent stopped crying about it since
in order to combat leftist propaganda lemmy.flatearth is now forcing disinformation onto its communities. The red scare runs deep.
THIS is why people have a problem with "tankies."
Budapest, 1956.
My family comes from Iran and Iraq
THIS is why I have a problem with "liberals"
Baghdad, 2003
I've been doing antiwar protests since Iraq- absolutely massive and totally ignored by the government. It was a bit radicalizing.
I've always considered myself an anarchist. These days I get called a tankie just for being opposed to wars and vocally opposing my own governments complicity in genocide. Somehow the meaning of tankie got flipped to mean the people opposed to sending in the tanks. Most ml's I've known are the first people to shit on Khrushchev anyways.
Whatever you do, don't look up the numbers of Soviet officials lynched before the tanks were sent in, or who the counter-revolutionaries set free from prison to help with the lynching and rioting (spoiler: literal Nazis).
Hey dont forget who funded and equipped the counter-revolutionaires (The CIA)
They have a problem with stopping a fascist counter-revolution that did anti-jewish pogroms and elevated the landlord class in Hungary?
Marxist Leninists are defined primarily by two principles:
It means that the Soviet Union was chiefly responsible for ending the Holocaust and supporting liberation struggles around the world. It means Cuba was able to transform itself from a strip-farmed slave and prostitution hell into a Democratic republic governed meaningfully by the Cuban people with dignity and education for all. All across east Asia it's secured home rule and governments who meaningfully care and are comprised by regular working and peasant peoples. Marxism Leninism is the historical force which has been shown to be most able to grapple with the complex realities of our world dominated by white supremacy and capitalism, and fought back.
It's the reason that the supposed atrocities commuted by socialist countries are minor compared to the grand historic crimes of empires like France, Britain, the US, Germany, Japan, etc. Mistakes are made and have been made by socialist countries, sure, of course; but they were the first nations to attempt to meaningfully house people for the sake of housing. They were the first projects to successfully overthrow colonialism, and to raise literacy rates to an absurd degree even higher than in the United States today. These socialist projects need to defend themselves because very few other historical forces have shown anywhere near the potential to make a better world.
So call it whatever you like, it'll never erase the monumental good it's done for the world.
THIS is why people have a problem with Anti-Communists
Statistics from 80 days into a ~460 day genocide, Gaza, 2025
Yes, American propaganda is propaganda, but also: They're both hugely powerful countries. It's a bit naive to view either without healthy scepticism.
Just my perspective from a smaller country. I wish we weren't the US' little bitch (Australia) and think I do view China quite a lot more favourably than the average US or Australian citizen, but I think the first sentence in your meme is the healthy view here with practically any country.